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Here's what Herman told me in a 2003-04 interview:
During the 1994 World Cup soccer tournament, I met a Goan on one of the
soccer channel. I forget his name, I think it was it was Peter D'Souza. But
he had a couple of Goan friends online, and I used to make them come to the
Goan channel on IRC. Once we had a group of about three of us used to talk
quite a lot. The girl whom he knew was the daughter of the former Indian
high commissioner to Kenya, Placido D'Souza, Maria D'Souza.
> --- Peter D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if you know this, Placido D'Souza's daughters, Lucia and
> > Maria, used to chat regularly with Goanet's founder Herman Carneiro on
> > the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) back in 1993-1994. It was those IRC
> > conversations which inspired the Herminator to start Goanet.
And here's some background:
Despite what it might seems, Goans have skills at diplomacy
too.Placido D'Souza (b.1933) was ambassador to a large number of
countries, including in the West Indies, Panama, Zaire, New York, Port
of Spain, Hong Kong and Nairobi. Another diplomat of Goan origin,
Peter Lynn Sinai (b.1933) topped the competitive exams in 1956.
http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/1503/eminent-goans.html
There's also this:
FORMER INDIAN AMBASSADOR of Goan origin Placido D'Souza, from
Pune/Anjuna and currently visiting the US, recalls he did a
portrait of Pope John Paul II when he visited Saint Lucia
in the Caribbean in 1986. At that time, D'Souza was
Indian high commissioner in Trinidad and Tobago with
jurisdiction over 11 countries and territories in the Caribbean.
He had been invited to Saint Lucia for the Pope's visit. One
of his hobbies has been sketching and painting. His work has
been published in a small book called 'Portraits of Power',
meant for private circulation. Other works he have done
include those of UN former Secretary general Javier Perez de
Cuellar, Nelson Mandela and several Indian leaders.
See http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos1088/
4/22/47/99/82/0/82994722407_0_ALB.jpg
Cut and paste the above long URL together
This is the story of Teresa Albuquerque:
She then happened to mention this to Placido D'Souza, the Pune-
based former High Commission for India in Kenya and in many other
places. He offered to help, and put Albuquerque in touch with an
influential Goan there Dr Fitz D'Souza.
http://www.goacom.org/news/news99/may/msg00031.html
And:
Placido D'Souza (b.1933) was ambassador to a large number of
countries, including in the West Indies, Panama, Zaire, New York, Port
of Spain, Hong Kong and Nairobi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Goa
Here's his son, another high achiever (noted on that useful resource
goanvoice.org.uk) :
Cognizant Announces Management Succession Plan
2 Aug: PR Newswire. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
announced that the current Chief Operating Officer Francisco D'Souza
will become President and CEO from 1 Jan 2007 … Mr. D'Souza, who will
continue to be based in the U.S., has 17 years experience in the IT
industry in operational, management and advisory roles and was part of
the team that founded. For ful text click here.
Francisco D'Souza was born in Nairobi in 1968, the son of Sushila and
Placido D'Souza (born in 1933, ex-Anjuna, Goa ex India's Consul
General in New York and High Commissioner in Port of Spain, Hong Kong
and Nairobi). His sisters are Jacinta, Lucia and Maria. Francisco
attended University of East Asia, Macau and Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh. He is married to Ines, a Brazilian. For more
info about him and the family see GVUK 2006-14
http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2006/Aug/issue1/
Statistician Dr Eddie D'Sa of the Goan Digest writes:
It is a great pleasure to introduce Mr Placido D'Souza to the New
Diaspora forum.
Placido is a retired Indian diplomat with an active interest in
journalism. He was editor of the elegant 96-page bimonthly magazine
New India Digest for many years.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewDiaspora/message/304
If I recall right, I had done an interview with Placido D'Souza long
back, when we met at the International Centre-Goa. Though I try to
share my writing with cyberspace, this could not be found.
It is a pleasure to have such eminent persons share their writings
with Goanet. FN
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