Two prisoners...One jailer .... a ringside seats to both releases

"It falls on but a few, to put it quite immodestly, to be on hand for the release of two prisoners, shackled by the same jailer, on opposite sides of the globe," as Short Takes Long Memories grabs a ringside seat first at the Liberation of Goa in 1961 and then, 13 years later, at the Carnation Revolution in Portugal as a colony and its coloniser are freed from the same jailer - the dictatorial Salazarist regime of Portugal, on opposite sides of the globe.

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A ringside view of the passage to India of Goa from prized jewel in the Ultramar Português. It chronicles the tale of a land caught between free India and Salazarist Portugal based on the reminiscences of a civil servant and diplomat.

Babi, Shabi, pouca diferença

A popular Konkani (well actually, Portuguese) version of that English expression- one and the same thing.

Glance through Short Takes Long Memories to find out the antecedents of this expression and, in the process, learn of the Keystone Cops nature of the law-enforcers in Portuguese Goa

Growing up Goan during its passage to India after 451 years adrift in the Ultramar Português- a rollicking journey in time in the company of serendipity, Salazar and the spirit of socegado
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How stereotypes and cliches have dominated the Goa-Portugal relation and how books like Short Takes Long Memories help in setting the record straight

Commenting on how the Goa-Portugal narrative has been dominated by a sense of victimhood disallowing a proper reappraisal of how the relationship shaped attitudes in both the lands

.... and how books like Short Takes Long Memories - a memoir by a Goan administrator who occupied the senior echelons of both the Portuguese Goan and the Indian (IAS) bureaucracy help set the record straight

In the 13 July 2011 issue of Herald:

Get an insight into how the Portuguese were different from the British (though not always in a bad sense)

in the very-well analysed review of Short Takes Long Memories by Frederick Noronha in the Gomantak Times