ISBN 9788193283767|Paperback|168 pages|2014|Goa 1556
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ISBN 9788193283767|Paperback|168 pages|2014|Goa 1556
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This rather slim book (of 168 pages) is divided into six sections. One deals with the author’s roots, both as a “village boy” and centred around his home.
The largest section of 15 brief word-sketches deals with “Saligao in them days”. Saligao is typical of most Goan villages of those times. It had its own village family nicknames, its forms of “village transportation”, its bicycles, village doctors and beggars. Mel D’Souza’s keen eye doesn’t overlook the “village oddballs” and its craftsmen.
From there he moves on to the lore pertaining to “worship, weddings and witchcraft”.
Goa, in those times, wasn’t as much connected with “fun”. But Mel D’Souza sees enough of this to create a section titled ‘Fun, Frolic and Frivolity’. Of course, this is a locally defined reality, not touristic. It deals with ks the festival of Sao Joao (involving jumping into wells for a swim and swig at the start of the monsoons), village games, tropical trees, the locals’ relationship with the beach in those times (largely referring to Calangute, in North Goa), Goan theatre, football and “fighting bulls”.
Some of his essays which give his take on Goa then look at Customs and Quirks, and Memorable Moments. Each of the book’s six sections have half-a-dozen to over a dozen short essays. Each essay focuses on one topic which caught D’Souza’s fancy.
Author:
Mel D'Souza
ISBN:
9788193283767
Publisher:
Goa 1556
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
168
Year of Publication:
2014
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Author
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro is an Indian writer, the award-winning author whose debut novel, Tivolem (1998), was named one of the twenty notable first novels to be published in America in 1998, was born in Goa, India, in 1925, when it was still a Portuguese colony; so he counts Portuguese, along with Konkani and English, as one of his three mother tongues.
His short stories were first published in Bombay in the 1940s and 50s; more recently they have been featured in three top American literary magazines - the North American, Iowa, and Literary Reviews. Other pieces, including much humor, appeared in The Indian-American, the now defunct cultural magazine that for some years was published in New York. HarperCollins, India, published a collection of his short fiction, Loving Ayesha and Other Stories, in 2003, with illustrations by the celebrated Mario Miranda; it promptly made the bestseller lists in that country.
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