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HISTORY HOUR
XAVIER CENTRE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Cordially invites you to a talk/discussion on
History in the Making:
Goa through Poetic Eyes 1987-2007
by
Dr Brian Mendonça
at
Xavier Centre of Historical Research
Alto Porvorim
Thursday, 21st December 2006
5.30 pm
Tel: 2417772 ; 2414971
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since his first poem 'Requiem to a Sal' (1987) describing the cutting down
of a sal tree near his home in Vasco, Brian Mendonça has tried to keep pace
with Goa's 'development.' In his articles like 'Fugitive: On the Run' ( Goa
Today, August 2001) and 'Goa : Prince of Tides' (Goa Today, June 2004) Brian
continues his sustained enquiry of himself and of change in Goa. In the
presentation Brian tries to join the dots and map a socio-cultural landscape
of Goa in the making. He lingers on the themes which have inspired his
poetry on Goa over the last 20 years, viz. its religious rituals, travel,
its architectural heritage, the polarity between the rivers and the sea, the
railways, insanity, influx, and suicide to mention a few. Mixing memory and
saudades he provides a poetic-history of a Goan community in transition.
Brian Mendonça did his BA at St Xavier's college, Mapusa in 1986. Hailing
him as a fresh new voice in Indian English poetry, the Sahitya Akademi, New
Delhi, published a slew of his poems in Indian Literature (May-June 2004).
His self-published collection of 50 poems on Goa entitled Last Bus to Vasco:
Poems from Goa (2006), freeze on a page, vignettes of a Goan way of life
which are slowly being erased. The collection was showcased by the National
Book Trust, New Delhi at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2006. Brian has
read his poems on Goa across India from Kathmandu to Hyderabad and from
Jorhat to Bhuj. He is a keen guitarist and anchors English programmes on AIR
Delhi. Brian Mendonça did his doctorate on insanity in the Gothic novel from
CIEFL, Hyderabad. He works in Delhi as an editor for a leading publisher of
children's books.
Contacts:
Dr Brian Mendonca, Editor, Educational Division, Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 9818432507
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