Shocking that Joel, the ever smiling gentleman journo, is no more in our midst. He will surely be missed.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to be the harbinger of such bad news this early in the morning... our > long-time friend and a very widely known figure in cyberspace, journalist > Joel D'Souza (69) passed away after a very brief illness at the District > Hospital, Mapusa. Joel was a journalist since the 1960s almost, worked for > a range of mastheads, and had so many interesting stories to narrate... > > We were good friends and worked a lot together. He was extremely > productive. While also very low-profile and always excessively modest about > his work, he kept reporting, photographing, videographing,and editing on so > many Goa-related issues. To get him to talk about his experiences, you > needed to bait him with names of others! > > Joel had a lot of unfinished work on hand... one is a (Romi > Konkani-English) dictionary he co-authored with Isidore Dantas, awaiting > publishing. Joel successfully made a shift-over to the online media, early > on, soon after it reached Goa in the 1990s. He had a long stint with GoaCom > and Goanet, send out news updates for perhaps a decade... > > Just a few months back, we were sitting in a very noisy restaurant in > Porvorim, and I was coaxing him to write about his experiences in > journalism for a forthcoming book. As usual, he was reticent, almost > believing that he had nothing to talk about. But as he kept telling me one > fascinating story after another, I just could not resist and used the video > cam for note-taking. The resultant interviews are below... > > (What was most surprising was when he told me his name wasn't actually > Joel... and brushed aside my curiosity. Just this morning, his good friend > Alexyz told me it was... Joseph!) > > Joel D'Souza, a journo in Goa since the 1960s! > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54zwYM_a154 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfhtcrczvaM > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA-wvQIz78I > > Joel, you did a great job in taking the story far and will, and in > documenting the Goa reality. Rather than mourning your death, we need to > celebrate the wealth of your work. Your contribution to the Romi Konkani > cause will also be long remembered. Needless to say, we will miss your > regular presence ... but there are a lot of happy memories that will live > on. > > FN > -- > P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha > Goa,1556 Shared Content at https://archive.org/details/goa1556 >