Source: Herald (Goa), 27 May 2014. By: Prof Teotonio R. de Souza Excerpts:
Selma Carvalho's A Railway Runs Through (2014) is a praiseworthy collection of oral traditions and memories of Goans who have moved out from British East Africa to England, Canada and elsewhere If it is generally true that those who do not write usually criticize, I have seen this happening to some extent in the Goanet forum, where quite a few cheap comments have sought to belittle the research efforts of Selma Carvalho. None of such loose-tongue critics have anything worth to show The Indians in Mozambique had to suffer socially offensive nicknames, such as monhés (Hindus and Muslims) and canecos (Goan Catholics). They were invented by the Portuguese white settlers who hated their competition. I did not come across any such parallel in Selma's book, while she does not shy away from pointing to the caste rivalries that marked the Goan diaspora, and illustrates it with the cases of Goan Institute and Goan Gymkhana in Nairobi we can all be grateful to Selma Carvalho who has laid the base for future construction For full text of the article, 884 words, go to http://bit.ly/1jVW5yY To order the book, go to http://bit.ly/1h8l8jq
