Dear Frederick, That was quite an impressive list. Please add my name as one who keeps coming back and trying to make improvements on limited time, with perhaps insignificant results, but I will keep on trying until Yama says time's up! Warm regards, Victor
--- On Sat, 12/22/12, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa is all beached up? To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 12:33 PM On 19 December 2012 18:47, J. Colaco < jc> <[email protected]> wrote: > 2: VRR, may I state that your advice to Bernado is a well known and > fruitless cliché. I submit that NO ONE can COME BACK and truly IMPROVE > anything. If you know anybody who has returned and improved anything, > please advise. > My list is below (and it's far from complete or comprehensive... just a few names that come to mind). Of course, to paraphrase GBS, the will to not believe creates its own evidence: * Jack Sequeira * Wilfred de Souza (even though I disagree with the politics of the above two) (double FRCS) * Gerard Da Cunha (one of the earliest returnees, Godhra-born!) * Dean D'Cruz (architecture, returned in the 1980s) * Christopher Fonseca (trade unionism) * Claude Alvares (built a generation of environmentalists here) both above returning after generations and centuries! * Alexyz (cartooning) * Jos Peter D'Souza (advocate) * Dr Raghunath 'Germania' Shirodkar Then, there are more who decided not to leave in the first place, and work to improve things from ground up. Among them: * Isabel Santa Rita Vas (theatre) * Dr Nandkumar Kamat (science, ecology, Goalogy) * Miguel Braganza (horticulture, campaigning, building social capital) There are many others whose story I may not be aware of.... Many stories are not documented either. One exception is this one: In 1975 a young Dr Raghunath Shirodkar quit his job in Germany and returned to Goa with the intention of doing something for his land. His experience in R&D in batteries stood him in good stead as he set up Germania batteries with his younger brother Satish P Shirodkar. The company initially made only battery plates and supplied them to Bajaj Auto. Satish Shirodkar said, “We did this for 14 years. Despite having a large market share it was not very profitable. We then decided to branch out.” They shifted their focus from manufacturing plates to batteries. Not many people are aware that it was Dr Shirodkar who suggested reduction in the content of antimonial alloy from the existing 5% to 1.8% in battery plates which helped reduce the price of batteries in India by a third. “This was possible by introducing new technology” said Satish. http://www.thegoan.net/story.php?id=6
