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At Goa Lit Fest - Short Takes with Gulzar
Photos: Galileo Fernandes
Mr Damodar Mauzo, Sahitya Academy Award winner speaks introduces the book and the authors
MANGO MOOD - serving Goa Sunny Side Up
Mr Damodar Mauzo, Sahitya Academy Award winner speaks introduces the book and the authors
Sharing with the audience his views on Goan literature, the changes in Goan society over the past decades and how a book like Short Takes Long Memories serves as a chronicle of a land that moved overnight from being part of the Estado da India to a part of free India.
A view of the audience
Damodar Mauzo speaks in admiration of Prabhakar Kamat's photographic memory and how it helped Short Takes Long Memories become such an accurate, almost photographical, account of Goa over the years. He also finds the snippets of life in Portugal in the 1950s enthralling as recounted through the author's experiences
Goa - served sunny side up.
As Goa enters its Golden Jubilee as part of free India, Sharmila Kamat takes the audience on a tongue-in-cheek tour of Goa- past and present by reading extracts of her first book, "Mango Mood"
Fun and frolic, music and dance.
Fish and feni, a little romance.
Where life is soçegado, the pace is sedate.
And every bridge has a duplicate.
The book reads like a film observes reviewer and academic Augusto Pinto as he allows the audience to get a flavor of Short Takes Long Memories by relating some choice passages from the book.
Goa University Professor and noted writer Dr Kiran Budkuley shares some of her thoughts on the changing face of Goan writing in English.
What a wonderful occasion to release the book comments well-known lyricist, writer and Oscar winning songwriter Gulzar referring to the connection between the day being the Golden Jubilee of Goa's Liberation from Portuguese colonialism and the theme of Short Takes Long Memories being the tale of Goa's passage to Indian after 451 years adrift in the Ultramar Portugues
Ladies, gentlemen and gentle readers...... SHORT TAKES LONG MEMORIES
Lyrical prose from the author of Jai Ho!
IAS Officer and diplomat Mr Prabhakar Kamat autographs a copy of Short Takes Long Memories for the award winning lyricist, writer and director Gulzar
Goa University History Professor and writer Dr. Pratima Kamat reading choice extracts from Short Takes Long Memories
Director of the International Centre, Goa, Nandini Sahai speaks on the occasion
More pictures of release of Short Takes Long Memories by Gulzar on 19 December 2011 at Goa LitFest, International Center, Goa
Photos courtesy Pratima Kamat
The release of the book Short Takes Long Memories by Gulzar, noted lyricist, Padma Bhushan and Oscar awardee
Mr Damodar Mauzo, Sahitya Academy Award winner speaks introduces the book and the authors
The release of the book Short Takes Long Memories by Gulzar, noted lyricist, Padma Bhushan and Oscar awardee
Mr Damodar Mauzo, Sahitya Academy Award winner speaks introduces the book and the authors
As Goa enters its Golden Jubilee as part of free India, Sharmila Kamat takes the audience on a tongue-in-cheek tour of Goa- past and present by reading extracts of her first book, "Mango Mood"
Dr Kiran Budkuley, author and academic, presents trends in Goan writing in English
The book reads like a film observes reviewer and academic Augusto Pinto as he allows the audience to get a flavor of Short Takes Long Memories by relating some choice passages from the book.
Gulzarsaab, maybe that is a suggestion for you!
The unfurling.....
And here it is ... Short Takes Long Memories
The author taking tips from the award winning writer and Oscar winner on how to wield the pen
Short Takes Long Memories released by Gulzar at the Goa LitFest on Golden Jubilee of Goa's Liberation
On the Golden Jubilee of Goa’s Liberation, Short Takes Long Memories, a ringside view of Goa’s passage to India from 451 years of Portuguese rule, was released by noted lyricist and scriptwriter Gulzar at the Goa LitFest being held at the International Centre, Goa. The book, a memoir of Goa’s first IAS officer and diplomat Prabhakar Kamat, is co-authored by Prabhakar Kamat and Dr. Sharmila Kamat and published by Rupa Publications, New Delhi. In addition to a reading from Mango Mood, a tongue-in-cheek look at present-day Goa by Dr. Sharmila Kamat (Rupa Publications, 2011), there was also a discussion on literary trends in Goa. Eminent writer Damodar Mauzo, Goa University academic and noted writer Dr Kiran Budkuley, well-known reviewer and academic Augusto Pinto and Director, International Centre Nandini Sahai, participated in the discussion.
Picture courtesy: Galileo Fernandes
Picture courtesy: Galileo Fernandes
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