Dear Roland, Don't know the subject, but enjoyed your comments. Cyprian > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:56:56 -0400 > Subject: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club. > > Dear Joel, > > Saw the You Tube snippet. You invited comments and therefore my post. > > Pity George Menezes spoke about comparatively inane things like how he > joined the IAF and his college days and girl friend in Dharwar. > > George was a leading Goan luminary on the Bombay scene back in the day. As > everybody knows he was a Director of Personnel in an MNC as well as a humor > columnist in the print media. He was also invited to join the BJP by AB > Vaypayee himself but left soon thereafter. Not forgetting that he is the son > of the late Prof Armand Menezes head of the English Dept at Dharwar > University, and a well known Goan author and personality in his own right. > > With experience and a pedigree like that, it is a pity that all the Goa Book > Club could get him to talk about was how his girl friend rejected him and > how he joined the IAF. He has repeatedly written and spoken about his IAF > days as a Pilot Officer, which by the way is the lowest ranking commissioned > officer rank in the IAF even though he was a junior air-attache at the > Indian Embassy in Paris. > > A lost opportunity to get George to talk about more cerebral matters like > suggestions for Goan youth in the corporate world or to make entry in > politics in order to clean the dirt abounding there. He must have had access > to leading Goan personalities like Julio Ribeiro and many others on the > national scene and he would have had a choice of so many little known facts > and stories to tell without violating the Official Secrets Act, ha ha! > > Next time somebody should get some ants to crawl in the pants of the sedate, > morose and humorless audience that I saw on You Tube at the Book Club and > give them the energy to wake up their speakers with loaded questions and > push them out of their apparent monotony and lethargy. > > Roland. > Toronto. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:42 PM > To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! > Subject: [Goanet] HAPPENINGS AT GOA BOOK CLUB > > GEORGE MENEZES SENDS EVERYONE IN SPLITS AT GOA BOOK CLUB: > > "Sugar and Spice" author George Menezes drew up a bumper crowd of writers > and book lovers at the June 2011 meeting of the Goa Book Club at Broadway > Book Centre in Panjim, Goa, on June 29, 2011. He sent everyone in splits as > he narrated how he got into writing and stuck to it till today. Menezes also > read one of his articles (on his father) published in English monthly > magazine "Goa Today", besides poems and anecdotes from his life. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/52243088@N00/5884917063/in/photostream > > > >
