In its "UK: TV & Radio Highlights", reviewing forthcoming broadcasts in yesterday's, (15th Nov) edition of the *Goan Voice (UK), *mention was made of a documentary to be broadcast by BBC Radio Three on Sunday 18th November on the subject of: *'The Krista Purana' and its author, Thomas Stephens, in Goa, that took place almost 500 years ago!!!* The review states the broadcaster, "Professor Nandini Das, scholar of early travels and voyages of exploration, is fascinated by Thomas Stephens and The Kristapurana. ......."
That review caught my instant attention in the context of the: "Archiving Memories of the Mombasa Goan School Project". Our former teacher, Professor Suresh Amonkar, who taught at the Mombasa Goan School in the period 1956-1960, actually translated *The Krista Purana* from Marathi to Konkani!!! two years ago. Read all about it and who Thomas Stephens was in the attachment herein. This attachment is an *extract* from a fuller Chapter on 'Professor Amonkar', who taught me English Literature at the school. Incidentally, Professor Nandini Das, is an Indian scholar, who studied English at Jadavpur University and arrived in the UK on a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford. She went on to do her PhD at Cambridge University and is now a Lecturer/Researcher in English Literature, at Liverpool University. You will see from the attachment, that her fascination with Thomas Stephens, resonates with my own curiosity, since my meeting with Professor Suresh Amonkar, in February 2017. That broadcast should be interesting. Marci Pereira "Archiving Memories of Mombasa Goan School/ Sacred Heart School Project" e-mail: [email protected] 16 November 2018
