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 2 major social classes: the hereditary landowner, bab Ligor and his tenants, low caste field laborers. During the previous few years, severe drought has endangered the principal crop of the region, rice. The Japanese occupation of much of eastern Asia has worsened the situation since rice cannot be imported to supplement the meager harvests.

A play in three acts, takes place on the night of the end of Portuguese rule in Goa, in 1961, in the house of a family grieving for the death of Leopoldina, Salu's elder sister and adoptive mother to Bostu. Salu is a batcar (landlord) who hides a secret from his family. Leopoldina gives away her lands to Salu and curses him by saying that the lands are extremely fertile, rich in ore and that she exchanges a fertile land for his infertility.

This cookery book aims to help you get started with everybody's favourite Goan food. Cooking need not be tough, if you know how to approach it. Chef Chandan Chari keeps things simple. Simple, yet unique. The ingredients are easy to come by. Recipes have been tweaked to become as easy as possible. Though some of the recipes might seem familiar, the dish could turn out to be rather different. The goal of the book has been to create the desired taste with a good texture based on locally available ingredients. From appetizers to salads, side-dishes to main dishes, and sweet treats, a wide range of recipes offer a whole lot of ideas and guidance from a Goan chef whose culinary creations have been widely appreciated. Do not miss the made with Goan love recipes. Specially those of grilled mussels stuffed in shells, tuna fish baskets, sprouted salads, fish in green curry, prawn balchao, mushroom chicken, galmo (dried shrimps), sukhey khube (seafood), and the all-time popular rava-fried fish.

Painting word pictures (and pencil ones) of the past [Frederick Noronha]: It seems like ages ago when one of those expat Goans wandering the lanes of their homeland, and often struggling to cope with the changing reality, dropped in at my home. Mel D'Souza had the idea for a book, which he planned to work on when back in Canada. Not too many years later, he presented me with a copy of 'Feasts, Feni and Firecrackers'. If you're guessing what it is all about, its sub-title explains it all: "Life of a Village Schoolboy in Portuguese Goa". This is a book D'Souza Mel himself wrote and illustrated. The latter is important, because it has a number of charming illustrations set in Goa. It harkens back to a Goa of yore, one which many who lived here would remember and recognise. My first memories of Goa go back only to the late 1960s, but even then there were strong traces of the Goa that was, and a place which was drastically changing even before our eyes.

Shorty Gomes is a story of vintage Indian crime fiction, that comes our way from Bombay. In this metropolis, the crime nexus is apparent. It's a mix of beautiful women, ugly politics, toxic godmen and soulless business. Ahmed Bunglowala's fiction thriller will take you back to a city you might have known, or introduce it to you innovatively if you don't know enough of Bombay. Shorty Gomes takes you on a fascinating tour of the crime nexus. Here, beautiful women, ugly politics, toxic godmen and soulless business are inextricably mixed. Deftly blending social comment and sardonic wit, these stories mirror the grim realities of the Big City, where everything is up for sale. Shorty Gomes is an answer to Philip Marlow. He has been plying his precarious profession from his flophouse in Dhobi Talao, Bombay, in the effervescent seventies and eighties.

The impressions we pick up as children, when our minds are still open to influence and as soft as damp sponges, are likely to stay with us the longest. -- Ann Patchet When the Jazz Swingers were at the top of their game in Dar es Salaam, I was just a young child. Yet I have clear memories of their band practices at our home and gigs at the Goan Institute (G.I.), a private club where Goans and their guests could socialize. This band story is a result of a question that kept playing in my mind when music was my profession. Strangers in the U.S. often asked after a performance how I learned to play the blues. What I think they were really asking was how someone who looked like me could be so immersed in music that originated in African American culture. The answer, however, seemed clear. I fell in love with the deep sound of blues music as well as the clever story-telling and double entendre lyrics. As for jazz, I felt at home with it because swing music was the live and very real soundtrack of my early childhood.

The first part is a geographical statement, but the second part of the proverb is quite provocative and may invite retaliation. This book itself is an indication that the second part does not reflect today’s reality. I started reading, but had no peace until I could go through all its 392 pages. This is a book of reference. Researchers will find abundant material for further investigation. Yet, the language is simple and attractive for any reader. Each family from Anjuna should have a copy of this book in their house and more to gift to friends.

When all the publicity about his class Elvis as Anthology began in 1992, Peter Nazareth faced a lot of jeering and prejudice. A radio interviewer from Chicago asked him, on air, whether his class was going to be in pharmaceuticals or cookery. He said it was going to be in literature: he was going to analyze the work as he did novels. There were three targets: (1) Elvis, as a working class; (2) Iowans, as hicks; (3) Peter Nazareth, a foreigner. Comments Peter: "I discovered that when they do not understand, most Americans, including professional critics, mock and put down from a position of superiority." Peter Jennings had just interviewed a guy called Peter Nazareth on ABC's World News Tonight. Peter Nazareth had just come out out of the bush, so to speak, out of Africa, and started teaching Elvis 101. The first university course on Elvis. I mean, many people idolized Elvis but to make him serious stuff in university, never mind it was a university in a third- world state like Iowa, was real way-out stuff.

A fragment of the birth register at the Church of the Holy Family at Mermajal(Omzur), 16 km from Mangalore, records the birth of Isabella, daughter to Joao Macedo and Rosa Braga, on June 19, 1801. Joao is my great-great-great-grandfather. This is the only record of his existence; the family's history has forgotten him. It remembers, however, that the family was one among most of Kanara's Christian population deported to Srirangapatna in 1784 on Tipu Sultan's orders, and that their entire property was confiscated by the state. It also attests that the family originally came from Halldonnem (Aldona) in Goa where they were ganvkars of the Prabhu clan. If Joao had not returned from Srirangapatna, the family would have passed into history with nothing to record it ever existed.

Peter Nazareth of the University of Iowa wrote this two-part work on Singapore literature. With his panopticon vision, Nazareth presents informative insights. His work on the writing of the sovereign city-state and Southeast Asian island country is being specially published as an e-book. Re-membering Singapore, to the author, involves placing diverse pieces together to re-create the country. In it, he attempts a new form of criticism. Nazareth's purpose was to create a way of writing literary criticism about Singapore's literature. He has giving the criticism a name (or, more accurately, names for different types of criticism), to have a handle for dealing with so much Singapore literature. Of giving us an idea about Singapore literature without being able to deal with everything.

This work spans over 81,000 words and over 483,000 characters. it has 304 pages and over six dozen photographs. Many of which are compiled for the first time, and a few of which are so old that most of us might have even forgotten that these existed. Three aspects of Valmiki Faleiro's work would perhaps strike any reader who comes across it, as it did to me. Firstly, Valmiki is a story-teller par excellence. He goes into full flow when he sees an interesting story. This is true of the man in real life, as it is obvious from his writing. Those of us who remember the coverage he gave Margao -- and Salcete -- in his West Coast Times days, back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, will vouch that the man has not lost his touch.

Perusing through the articles in this book on Goan folk music authored by Lucio Rodrigues, the pioneer, and renowned Goan folklorist, was like diving to the bottom of the ocean with so many beautiful pearls and nuggets that you just want to keep collecting and never stop. Indeed I enjoyed my dive immensely and understood the mando, dulpod, and deknni better than ever.

Confucius said: Study the past if you would like to divine the future. The village of Arossim is known to the outside world for its scenic beach. It is a rural part of South Goa and actually has a long and complex history. Arossim is situated between the Arabian Sea and tributaries of the River Sal. This agricultural land has sustained inhabitants since Neolithic times. Early tribal rituals, Hindu traditions, and Christian practices have influenced the region. Each contributed through the centuries to the unique character and customs of the people. In this book Themistocles D'Silva explores the forgotten and concealed history of the region. A history that goes back to the Megalithic Period. He was pushed into doing this work after recognizing that stone clusters nearly hidden in the rice fields are in fact monuments of an ancient settlement. This book a his revision of his 2011 book. These megaliths were erected perhaps 3000 years ago and still stand tall. But, over time, their significance has been forgotten. D'Silva also takes us to the land, its people, shrines, festivals and feasts and temples. Besides, his book covers notable facts and events, priests and nuns, personalities from the past, slavery in colonial Goa. And more. D'Silva grew up in Arossim and is now a scientist in the US. He portrays many aspects of the village, including the ancient system of self-government and the profound effects of Portuguese colonialism. He unravels the origins of many earlier and present day local customs. Some are now fading as Arossim modernizes and changes. These pages are an inspiration and a model for how you too can discover your own village. Themistocles Themis D Silva studied in a one-room village school in Arossim. He also attended the local public elementary school in Portuguese, and then Loyola High School, Margao. He graduated from St. Xavier's College, Bombay. Later, he obtained a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in the US. After post-doctoral research there, he took up a position in industry. D'Silva. He is credited with many patents and scientific publications. He recently authored a scholarly book on the Bhopal disaster, The Black Box of Bhopal. This book is a thoroughly revised edition of D'Silva's earlier book, now out of print. His earlier book on the subject was called Beyond the Beach: The Village of Arossim, Goa, in Historical Perspective. It was published by Goa,1556 in 2011.

Caught between settler domination and racism on the one hand and the rising tide of African nationalism and racism on the other -- "the white devil and the deep black sea" -- the Indians of Kenya emerge almost as a pariah group in the years of struggle leading to Kenya's independence in December 1963. Their failure then, and in subsequent years, to secure fair representation, rights to land ownership and freedom from racial discrimination form the subject of this book. The author played a prominent role in Indian political life in Kenya from 1944 to 1960. Through the records of the East Africa Indian Congress, his own speeches and those of others, newspaper reports and teh recording of the thrust and parry of parliamentary debate, he documents the fractured state of Indian political life, including the fatal Hindu-Muslim division over separate electorates, skilfully manipulated by the colonial government to the advantage of the European settlers.

Seeking the homeland of yesteryears, Dubai-based, Goa-born interior designer and architect Joseph C Dias (JoDi) has illustrated the Goa of his childhood, a far cry from its heady identity of today. Developed in a postcard format, these offer terrific insights into the charm of a simpler time, titled Jodi's View Cards of Old Goa. Kanika Sharma gets an exclusive dekko.