NewDiaspora mailing list [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewDiaspora/message/5553] has reported the death of Edgar Martins. Some of the old timers would also remember him as a Goanetter. Even if I disagreed with him over some issues, he struck me as being well-read and well-intentioned too. Like many expats, he was grappling with the changing reality within today's Goa, and specially the gap between hype and ground-level reality. He could hold an interesting conversation for long, as I discovered during his couple of visits to my home.
Edgar was blunt in his views, quick to take offence, and quick to patch up. May we remember the man through some of the pleasant memories he leaves behind. Here's one of his posts that I came across through a google search: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2003-June/002439.html FN -- Frederick FN Noronha * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org * Phone +91-832-2409490
