Are they closing or relocating to some place near Alankar cinema hall? Ceco = Its a combination of the first two characters of their sons' names
'Ce'dric and 'Co'ndrad Bhushan --- On Mon, 10/25/10, augusto pinto <[email protected]> wrote: From: augusto pinto <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] CECO Circulating Library Will Be History Soon To: "goanet" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 25, 2010, 1:01 AM Frederick Noronha wrote on the subject: Re: [Goanet] CECO Circulating Library Will Be History Soon (I'll comment onportions of his letter below) FN: Hi Augusto, Your post did interest me a lot, and almost tempted me to comment earlier. Me: Well Frederick thanks, but I think I should start my reply with an apology of sorts. I came to know about CECO's closing down because Leroy Veloso of Moira tipped me off about this. A day after your response to my letter, I was accosted by Leroy Veloso who is one of the richest (if I heard him right when he spoke to a group of friends earlier today - the second richest (!!) Moidekar), and who is certainly one of the cleverest, certainly more clever than me - see - SEQC blog. Leroy said that it was unethical on my part to write about CECO library without his permission as it was Leroy who gave me the 'tip'. He said that he did not want any publicity but it was the principle of the matter that he was agitated about. Apparently he felt that since it was Leroy who gave me the 'tip' I was obliged to ask his permission before writing what I did on this topic. I wish to acknowledge that I did not seek the permission of Leroy when writing my post. I hope Leroy accepts this as an apology. FN: I have heard so much about CECO (is CECO an abbreviation, or is it just Ceco?) Me: Dunno. CECO's books are stamped as CECO Circulating Library. FN: However, I did visit the Athaide (whom is it named after anyway... ?... bless his soul) municipal library at Mapusa... Me: The Athaide library like the St. Xavier's library have a lot of treasures which have been bequeathed to them by old rich families the collections of which need someone knowledgeable to study and annotate as many are in Portuguese and perhaps Latin. Otherwise the Athaide library is sad. FN: Anyway, I think your musings on Ceco and Shibbir and the written word in the Goa of the 1970s would be interesting enough for a full-fledged article! Me: Offhand I think I am not the right person to do such an article because the subject is one where one must interview people - and I'm not so good at this. However, I could interview Raymond who owns Ceco and is an ex-Kenya guy, who used to play football along with my brother for the Cruzaders in Nairobi in the 1960's, but the other inputs required are responses from readers of Ceco and Shabbir in Mapuca and also the reminiscences of those from other towns in Goa who used to frequent these lending libraries. Maybe we could do this as a collective enterprise. Willing goanetters - could you please write in with your recollections regarding lending libraries whereever you may be from. Then I, or dare I say FN, would string them together into a long article. FN: In fact, I would have surely not ended up as a journalist, had it not been for the sparse library at the Saligao Institute Me: Such village libraries are sorely needed although I am not sure about the inclinations of the e-teen generations. I had tried to help re-start the library in Moira's Associacao Academica de Moira by donating them a slew of fiction and other stuff to which Floriano Lobo also responded by sending the stuff he did not want to the club, but unfortunately I suspect that the management of the club does not believe that the club should be a community centre where Toms, Rashidas, Dikshits and Haris can congregate, and so these books are awaiting white ants to devour them. Incidentally Leroy Veloso had once said that he would help in the setting up of a government assisted library but there again the management of the club shot down the idea as apparently it does not believe that the club should be a community centre where Toms, Taslimas, Dikshits and Haris can congregate. Cheers Augusto On 21 October 2010 23:58, augusto pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > I had written: > "CECO Circulating Library Will Be History Soon > Do you, my frends, know that CECO Circulating Library in Mapusa will > be shut soon. > It used to be one of the two main ones that were very popular in the > 70's and 80's (Shabbir's was the other). I used to frequent them in > those days but then I lost touch. Shabbir's closed down long ago, and > now it seems people's book habits have reduced so drastically that > they are not capable of sustaining these libraries. > They are disposing off many of their books for about Rs 40 ?- 50. Much > of it is pulp fiction, but there may be some things that you are > looking for. For the younger readers there are a lot of Nancy Drews > and Hardy Boys and Louis L'Amore and such like stuff; as well as > comics and magazines. So it might be worth paying them a visit." Cheers Augusto Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal, Moira, Bardez, Goa, India E [email protected] or [email protected] P 0832-2470336 M 9881126350
