Re: [Goanet] [GOABOOKCLUB] The Literary Maladies of Diaspora Goans by Ben Antao GL responds: The postings on this thread has elicited mixed reactions from me. For starters: Why did a topic from Goa Book Club make it on Goanet? Was there not enough room on the Goa Book Club to air the issues? On the positive side, the controversy of this thread appears to have awoken many Goans on Goanet. And as said before on another thread on Goanet, " their silence was not Golden." Perhaps Ben Antao deliberately created the controversy to generate publicity for the book - akin to the controversy on the works of Salman Rushdie or that of Dan Brown. So Goans could do a favor to both esteemed authors by buying their books and reading them. And still better presenting these books (and those of other Goan authors) to their friends and relatives the next holiday season. Authors of a book do a lot of work to research the topic being presented and more importantly "connect the dots." This is what separates the KNOWLEDGE that the author shares from the INFORMATION / FACTS available on the net. The charm of writing a non-fictional book is to give the readers that "AHHA moment .... now I understand" happy feeling. Regards, GL Author of "Your Happy Brain - Why and How to Hug it"Free web-page: yourhappybrainbook.com
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