It is with a tremendous heavy heart and trembling hands that I offer my condolences to Dr Cornel DaCosta's family. It hardly seems possible, that the feeble, tenuousness of life should make itself felt in such a harsh manner. Despite our scathing public fight on Goanet, over 2 years ago, Cornel was not a man to hold a grudge and we worked together closely to chronicle the lives of Goans in Kenya and early arrivals in the UK. Dr Cornel was an atheist and possibly did not believe in an afterlife. He believed that the Goan community should integrate as quickly as possible into the mainstream. He once said to me, that he was always looking for a good fight on his hands and he enjoyed the art of debating rather vigorously. The issue of caste in the Goan Catholic society was very dear to him and indeed he sometimes upbraided me for not taking up this issue more forcefully in my own writings.
He will be deeply missed. Selma Carvalho
