[Goanet-News] LINKS: The Soboicar Project: about those who made the southern part of the island city their home

2022-03-31 Thread Goanet Reader
By Sheena Maria Piedade, Co-Founder IT'S FICTION that brought us -- Sheena Maria Piedade and Jane Borges -- together. And it's fiction which first made us curious about our families, our pasts, and the homes that we shared with our ancestors. A few months before the pandemic, Jane, a

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: 31. Advance of 50 Parachute Brigade (Valmiki Faleiro)

2022-03-31 Thread Goanet Reader
31. Advance of 50 Parachute Brigade By Valmiki Faleiro The diversionary thrust from the North assigned to 50 Para was perpendicular to the east-west flow of Goa's rivers. The route was longer and the riverine obstacles more difficult to cross. Due to

[Goanet-News] BrieFNcounters: Stories you might have missed from Goa -- Iconic OIBS shuts down... remembering Rufino Cordeiro... mud, bamboo and natural architecture...Goa's windsurfing champ... an un

2022-03-31 Thread Frederick Noronha
Goa's iconic bookshop, the mail-order Other India Bookstore active since the 1980s, is closing down An interview wit Norma Alvares, a Padmashree awardee, prominent environmental lawyer, and public figure in the Goa of the past many decades, talks