Hi Augusto, Thanks for sharing your notes. It appears that the heralded writers much like the “korvam” are going strong—presenting continuous trajectories through their writing.
Venantius J Pinto On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:49 PM, augusto pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > Alfred Chacha > > One of the sidelights of the GBC meet on translation was the appearance of > the veteran Goan journalist Alfred de Tavares, with whom Prof Afonso in > particular was delighted to renew acquaintance. He reminsced with Alfred > Chacha, as he is fondly called online, about the All Fools Club which they > had formed when they were students. Alfred was here on holiday from Sweden, > with his daughter or was it granddaughter? > > The Case of the Plagiarised Self-Improvement Books > > I chatted with Khalil Mohammed of Broadway Book House about the case of the > plagiarised self-improvement books and its author. He was quite put out > with this case. He fumed:"You don't know what a loss I suffered. I went and > shredded all those books. That person tried to give some excuse that it was > a mistake... He is a Ph.D... How could he not have known..." > > I think Khalil will be a bit more careful now about which books he accepts > to publish. > > Shell Windows > > One of the best books that Broadway Book House has published along with > Fundacao Oriente is a collection of short stories called Shell Windows. It > is consists of the best short stories from a short story competition > conducted by FO in 2011. > > It consists of 22 short stories. Among the writers featured are Manohar > Shetty, Ahmed Bungalowalla, Aldina Braganza e Gomes, Prashanti Talpankar, > Belinda Viegas, Marilia Fernades, Ramnath Gaude, Cordelia Francis, Bevinda > Collaco, Sheela Jaywant and Fatima Noronha. Many of them are Goa Book Club > members. Congratulations to all. > > Cheerio > Augusto > > -- > > > Augusto Pinto > 40, Novo Portugal > Moira, Bardez > Goa, India > E [email protected] > P 0832-2470336 > M 9881126350 >
