Very interesting account, sir! Didn't know that apart from being a teacher and writer, you were a journalist too. Hats off to you!
As for one group celebrating while another toils, it's a typical Indian situation that has not changed much even today. Some are just lucky! Regards, RKN Victor Rangel-Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In January 1953 the Times offered me a job as Sunday editor at their soon to be started Calcutta edition, and when opening press night rolled around in February, a group of top newsmen from the parent Bombay paper descended on us, led by Moraes. They had a big bash in the evening at one of the top hotels, at which if I remember right the Governor and local politicos were wined and dined, while we working stiffs stayed back to put the paper together. Well after midnight I was down in the pressroom okaying pages as they were being "made up" on the "stone"---those were the days of metal type and printers' ink---and in rolled Frank Moraes at thehead of his cohort, and he had just a one-line mantra for me: "Let's get the paper out! Let's get the paper out!" Having said that, he kept out of our way. Others in the group, however, were more obtrusive, and soon we had to hustle them back upstairs. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
