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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the death of Proif. Olivinho Gomes Konkani has received another blow. He was staunch supporter of the language and did his best to promote it. Now that Fr. Mathew Almeida and Prof. Gomes are no more, I am not sure if there are anyone remaining of their stature. I first met him when he came to Toronto in 1988 for the first Goan International Convention. He read a paper on the Konkani language's evolution. Prof. Gomes quoted from Prof. Jose Pereira's book, Konkani: A Language, at length. After the talk, both I and Prof. Pereira went and congratulated Prof. Gomes on his fine talk. He suddenly asked me why I was smiling. I said it was because of a remark that Prof. Jose Pereira, who was seated next to me, made to me. Behind me sat the noted tiatrist Cyriaco Dias, who had come for the convention from the Middle East. Perhaps he was watching Prof. Pereira closely. After the convention, Prof. Gomes got into a tiff with the organisers. If I remember correctly, he was not happy that he was charged for the gala dinner. He thought he was a guest of the organisers and, hence, should have been given a free ticket. However, he did not pay for the ticket but a well-wisher. But he carried the hurt and in his review he called the key organiser a "combi." One day someone called me and said that he has a book for me from Goa. I went and picked it up. It was Prof. Gomes's book on the Old Konkani Since the book was in devnagiri Konkani (at least most of it, if I remember correctly) I could not read it throuhly. However, I have read his Village Goa, his thesis for his doctorate. It has lot of information on Goa's traditions, customs and cultural history. IT is a recommended book for those trying to understand Goa's past and reconcile it with the present. He followed with another book on Goa that touched on all aspects of Goa's political, social and cultural fields. Titled just Goa, it serves as a useful companion to his Village Goa. A comprehensive run through Goa's history, the book is valuable for those interested in taking in an all-round view of Goa. His travel writing in Goa Today showed his other side that was far from being academic. Travel writing perhaps gave him freedom to express himself outside the confines of scholarly writing. Sad that such writers and scholars are leaving us one by one. His work will remain long. Eugene __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
