Fr Nascimento dropped in to my home yesterday (Friday) afternoon.
Unfortunately, I had to be at my inhospitable worst -- and didn't let
him get past the gate -- because I was in a hurry to submit applications
for some book proposals we are working on, and the deadline was minutes
away! But knowing the number of topics we have to discuss, it was quite
some time before we finished chatting... by the gate!
Fr Nascimento's book, Follow Me III (on the parish priests and churches
of Salcete and Mormugao sub-districts) is doing well. It is half-way
sold out within barely three weeks of being published. Friends like
Valmiki Faleiro have been helping a great deal with making sure the book
reaches its deserved audience.
Meanwhile, Fr Nascimento is also planning for his next book -- on
Saligao. If you have an article to submit, please do. Your work will be
duly acknowledged. We are planning for a September 2010 release.
Material which has already been worked on, and shared online via the
Saligao Serenade network, thanks to the help of guys like editor Val
Souza (his father was one of the two co-authors of the 1973 centenary
book on Saligao) will form part of the book. Helpful Yvonne Vaz-Ezdani
has already done some of the work for topics like "A Walk Through
Sonarbhat". But Yvonne is currently in Australia, and I hope that the
text reaches us on time! Keeping fingers crossed there.
Fr. N suggested to me that I do an article on Norman Dantas,the
journalist who played an influential role in the journalism of Goa of
the 1980s! I sure will; Norman was an influential factor in my younger
days, till he died at a rather early age (in his mid-forties) in 1998!
Please share your Saligao-related articles; I've clicked quite a few
photos, but there's space for many more, specially if they are historic
pics going back to another era. Long-time and skilled photographers like
Joseph St Anne can help us here! I've requested Dayanita Singh for a
good pic for the cover! Maybe we need to tap Dean and his office for an
updated map of the village. Best! FN
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