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An excellent and immensely enjoyable essay.
Nandkumar Kamat, Goa University
> How the Goan lost his Art
>
> By Vivek Menezes
>
> "Better had I died," Francis Newton Souza said in about a disfiguring
> childhood bout of smallpox, "Would have saved me a lot of trouble. I
> would not have had to bear an artist's tormented soul, create art in a
> country that despises her artists and is ignorant of her heritage."
> This despairing plaint was written in his memoir RIGHT? Words and Lines
> when the artist was still only 33 years old, and already nearly eight
> years into an ambitious but hardscrabble exile, in slow transit from
> London to Paris and back again.
