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NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services'
With Foreword by Gen SF Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM, ADC (retd)
former Chief of Indian Army Staff
and Governor, Punjab & Administrator, Chandigarh UT
Copies now available at:
GOA: Literati (2277740), Other India (2263306), Broadway (6647038),
Mandovi (2427904), Noel DSilva & Associates (9823120454 / 9096781714),
Confidant / Golden Heart Emp (2732450), David & Co (2730326), Vardaan
(9527463684)
SERV / RETD Def Offrs in Goa: O/o Sainik Co-op Hse Bldg Sty, Def Col, Porvorim
(2417288)
MUMBAI: David & Co (22019010)
PUNE: Manneys (26131683), Popular (25678327)
BENGALURU: Narayan (22865800)
DELHI: Ritana (24617278)
ONLINE (worldwide delivery): http://www.ritanabooks.com,
http://goa1556.goa-india.org
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If you were a journalist in the Goa of the 1980s, you would have known
Sharmila Kamat, who worked as a reporter in the Herald then. Dr Kamat has
since morphed into a US-based astrophysicist. I was happy to see her new
book at Broadway's recently, and she also sent me more details about her
work.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd has just published Mango
Mood -- a collection of short satirical pieces on Goa and the rest of India.
The book is available at all major bookstores as also online at Rupa
Publications and a host of other websites. It has been illustrated by
Naguesh Sardessai and is priced at Rs 195 in India and $10 abroad.
PUBLICATION DETAILS:
New Delhi: Rupa Publications, 2010
166pp. Paperback. Book Size: 5.1x7.75.
Price: $10/-. Rs. 195/-
ISBN_PB: 9788129117229
Mango Mood is marketed online by Rupa Publications
http://www.rupapublications.co.in/client/Book/MANGO-MOOD.aspx
Landmark Books http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/books/mango-
mood-sharmila-kamat/9788129117229<http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/books/mango-mood-sharmila-kamat/9788129117229>
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sharmila Kamat is an astrophysicist who is also an
established writer and author. She has a PhD from Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland and is a recipient of a University Fellowship by
Columbia University in New York. Her research studies the constitution of
the Universe, particularly what makes up the hidden mass we call dark
matter. She was Faculty in Physics in a Goan college before proceeding to
the US.
She has written for the US News and World Report, Smithsonian, New Scientist
and NPR’s This I Believe in the US, and The Times of India, Femina, The
Sunday Observer and PTI Features in India. She has been the Editorial
Coordinator in Goa for Femina for several years and has also been a
columnist for several Goan papers.
Sharmila is a recipient of the Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American
Physical Society. She was invited to write a book on Alentejo, Portugal, by
Fundação Oriente and was a participant in Rotary International's Group Study
Exchange Program from India to the United States.
She has written travel and humour stories, besides features on science,
culture and society. She has scripted and presented features for the radio
and the television, contributed to online publications and acted in an
off-Broadway play, Happy Hour at the Event Horizon.
The author, Sharmila Kamat, can be contacted at: mangomood2...@yahoo.com
CONGRATS Sharmila. Really nice to see your writing flower in so many
directions, in parallel with your career in the sciences! FN
Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490
NEW BOOK from Goa: Nirmal Kulkarni's THE GOAN JUNGLE BOOK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/5299947430/
SHARMILA KAMAT'S Mango Mood, satirical short pieces from Goa...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/5303991992/
