O Signo da Ira by Orlando da Costa presents a year (approximately 1940-1941) in the life of a rural society in Goa, then ruled by Portugal. There are two major social classes: the hereditary landowner, bab Ligôr and his tenants, low-caste field labourers. During the previous few years, severe drought has endangered the principal crop […]

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Prof Ave Cleto Afonso on Thursday (July 17, 2014) drew a packed crowd at the Goa Book Club. They came to hear him talk about his recently translated-into-English book on Goans reclaiming their Portuguese nationality/citizenship. With so many Goans opting to reclaim Portuguese citizenship even five decades after Lisbon’s rule ended, the issue has been […]

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Panjim: Author Raghuraman Trichur whose book Refiguring Goa was published by Goa 1556 was present at the book club of Broadway book house on 27th March 2014. Raghuraman Trichur is professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento. His teaching and research focus mainly includes comparative political economy, state and class […]

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The latest cover of Goa 1556’s book: Globalising Goa was mentioned on GOA COM. Globalising Goa: Cover of Goa, 1556’s latest book, now available at Golden Heart Emporium (Margao) and Broadway (Panjim). Globalising Goa offers a wide-ranging account of the place Goa occupied both in India and the world beyond, before the advent of the […]

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Every year during the months of July-August, the Goa government disburses several lakhs of Rupees encouraging Goan authors to produce their artistic literary works. Similarly , the publisher gets an equal amount. The books purchased by the art and culture department are then freely distributed to libraries of school and colleges and public. So far, […]

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Benaulim: The President and The Executive Council of the VINCENT XAVIER VERODIANO FOUNDATION had organised the function of conferment of the 2012 VICENT XAVIER VERODIANDO AWARD on ‘Goa,1556 founded by Frederick Noronha on 5th November 2012 at The Goa Chitra Museum. Alito Siqueira, associate professor, Dept. Of Sociology, Goa University had graced the occasion as […]

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April 23 is WORLD BOOK DAY PANJIM: On World Book Day (April 23), a new book just published here notes that Goa’s public library is among the oldest across India. It was set up way back in 1832, even before Calcutta and other cities had public libraries. It is also well known that Goa had […]

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