I must admit that I started reading this book with all the enthusiasm of a bear
foraging for food in mid-winter. The back-room shenanigans of Goa's veteran
journalists is not fare for laymen, I thought. But I soon found myself
deliciously turning the pages of this book and carrying it with me to the
kitchen, the restroom and finally to bed. It is the telling tale of our times,
told by our faceless chronicles. Who gets to tell our stories, which stories
get told and who ultimately decides how a story is slanted, is much fodder for
thought. There are no heroes or villains in this story. Infact it is written so
lucidly, it is left upto to the read to determine who the heros and villains
are. For instance, I thoroughly enjoyed Rajan Narayan's diktat's He's just the
sort of maniacal dictator I've always had a fondness for. :-)
This is a book about Goa's history and its current affairs. Anyone remotely
interested in Goa, pick up this book. Indeed pick up a copy for a friend in
diaspora. Simply unputdownable!
edited by Frederick Noronha.
Selma
