I find in Ms. Carvalho's fine book short passages that can serve as an aid
(upgrade) to our traditional morning prayer and/or meditation. On page 148,
after her account of that accomplished contemporary Goan Victor Rangel
Ribeiro (seen recently weilding the baton for a local String Orchestra
Concert), she adds these lines:
"At the core of all good art is the desire to tell a story that speaks of a
fundamental truth and gently nudges our inner moral compass towards
compassion and empathy. It is the desire to redeem the disenfranchised and
the disillusioned. A society bankrupt of its artistic heritage is a society
bereft of imagination, values, foresight, morality and ultimately its soul.
Goa at least will never be bankrupt---for its artistic sons of the soil,
whether in Goa or in the Diaspora, refuse to abandon her." (Carvalho, Selma,
Into the Diaspora Wilderness, Goa 1556/Broadway Publishing House, Goa,
2010).
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