Dear Eugene Correia, I know the letter to Nehru was published in Portuguese in the book *Goa: Terceira Corrente - discursos, artigos, cartas e defesas forenses *(2013), by Bruto da Costa. Best, Helder
Em seg., 11 de dez. de 2023 às 08:51, sandra lobo <[email protected]> escreveu: > Bruto da Costa was a lawyer, journalist and politician who defended the > right of Goan people to decide their own political future > > > > > Sandra Ataíde Lobo > > > Home (gieipc-ip.org) <https://www.gieipc-ip.org/> > https://praticasdahistoria.pt/ > > tmn. ++351 930690459 > > ------------------------------ > *De:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > em nome de Eugene Correia <[email protected]> > *Enviado:* 6 de dezembro de 2023 15:27 > *Para:* [email protected] < > [email protected]> > *Assunto:* Re: [GRN] Pamphlets > > I saw in my small collection, a tattered copy of Yesterday, Today and... > Tomorrow, A Tragicomedy in Three Acts and Twelve Scenes, by A.A Bruto da > Costa, and I suppose he was a Doctor, perhaps a medical doctor. It was > published in 1963. > However, I post here to know if anyone has a copy, for the first page of > mine is tattered and the cover-page and inside page is unreadable. If some > has the play, I wish to get a copy of the cover and inside pages. I read it > decades ago, and since the Goa Liberation anniversary is coming up, I wish > to quote from it. I am not very sure know if the play was an attempt at > India's takeover of Goa and what the future holds or was it predicting a > "tragicomedy", as Bruto da Costa envisaged Goa would become in later years. > I know he addressed a Letter to Nehru, but don't know where I could locate > it. Does anyone know if it's in the Goa University Library or elsewhere? > Also re-reading, Goan Struggle for Freedom by M.K. Gandhi, published by > Navajivan Publishing House. Recollecting Liberation and the glow of > freedom. Where has Goa gone? > > Eugene Correia > > > Eugene Correia > > > > On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 10:04 AM V M <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Frederick, > > Thank you very much for that German resource on Swahili - it turns out the > first known written literature in that language was found in Goa! Amazing > fact. I will examine closely for more places to look. > > About the avid embrace of English language education by Goans in Goa from > the first decades of the 19th century, yes it is true it happened first in > the Bardez villages where the majority of educated men went off to work in > British India (and later to Persia, Aden, East Africa and Singapore as > well). But by the 20th century, it was routine for all families of means to > send their children to study in boarding schools across the border in > Belgaum, Pune and much farther afield as well. > > It has always fascinated me how disproportionately the Goans were > represented from the beginning of college education "for natives" in Bombay > - the first class at Grant Medical College was half Goans! > > Warm regards, > > VM > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, 02:06 fredericknoronha, <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tuesday 5 December 2023 at 19:08:55 UTC+5:30 vmingoa wrote: > > Goans in Goa pursued English language education with much alacrity from > the second half of the 19th century. Few peoples anywhere - but especially > the subcontinent - have ever embraced English so enthusiastically as the > Goans. There's no question of imposition but merely access to opportunity, > and Portuguese lost out for very good reasons. > > > > *Would you see this as happening uniformly across Goa or in some pockets > (such as parts of Bardez, and among the daispora in the then English-ruled > regions)?* > > > > Elsewhere, of course, like all other Indians in their transnational > dispersal, Goans have adopted and mastered a wide range of languages.I have > been looking for Goan writing in Swahili. There must be some. If anyone has > references, please share. > > > *Check this an example here:* > > https://afrika.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_afrika/Swahili/literatur_prae_uhuru.pdf > <https://afrika.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_afrika/Swahili/literatur_prae_uhuru.pdf> > > FN > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/5f809d03-ee9e-4c06-8349-ac5197d98a45n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/5f809d03-ee9e-4c06-8349-ac5197d98a45n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAN1wPW5FafnKEpajsOt3FB96vVXzobQWtjMG48%2BVZBRASUWozw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAN1wPW5FafnKEpajsOt3FB96vVXzobQWtjMG48%2BVZBRASUWozw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAJhbo_7GdaHUhqjhRrFiFNKwDoSTQ%2B5%3DkpODMWXCAf3UDqtYkg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAJhbo_7GdaHUhqjhRrFiFNKwDoSTQ%2B5%3DkpODMWXCAf3UDqtYkg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/AS8PR10MB6294CFFCC86DDD88609FEE0CA58FA%40AS8PR10MB6294.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/AS8PR10MB6294CFFCC86DDD88609FEE0CA58FA%40AS8PR10MB6294.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- *Prof. Dr. Helder Garmes* Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas Universidade de São Paulo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAM9Q5-ZuyfLvuCOis6R29Jraa8g7QEX%3DqjoBZty3i4vFjBHqQw%40mail.gmail.com.
