On 28 July 2010 02:15, Gilbert Lawrence <gilbert2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Selma's book about Diaspora Goans should be a great read. Congratulations > Selma > for your yeomen work. > > Reading some comments on the book, it appears it has a lot of stories on > individual Diaspora Goans. If true, it shows individual Goans being > pioneers > and breaking the 'glass ceiling.' This made it much easier for those who > followed them. I recollect my job in Hammersmith Hospital in London. At > my > interview, the chair asked me if I knew of a prior Goan, who worked there > and > impressed his bosses immensely...... But I digress. > RESPONSE: I join you on congratulating Selma on her book. It is true without the past there is no present and without the present there is no future. Yet there is some fish face out there who will comment - words to the effect, some dwell on the past. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
