Goa - What Happened Then - Learn about Goa pre and post 1961 in Sharmila Kamat and Prabhakar Kamat's Short Takes Long Memories

Fifty years later, we wonder what was life back then? Was it a ‘golden Goa’, as the discourse sometimes suggests? Or, was our tiny region dominated by everything negative, as those allergic to everything Portuguese today suggest?

A book review of Prabhakar and Sharmila Kamat's Short Takes Long Memories by Frederico Noronha in Planet Goa

http://www.planet-goa.com/content_details.php?id=489

Short Take Long Memories in Pudhari newspaper (Marathi)

And Navprabha

And in the Navhind Times - Buzz

http://www.navhindtimes.in

http://www.navhindtimes.in/iwatch/book-goa-s-passage-india-released/watch

Coverage in the Gomantak Times

Short Takes release announced in The Hindu

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2743939.ece

Photo/video coverage of the release of Short Takes by Oscar winning songwriter Gulzar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0zbYZeaPRg
http://www.goaartlitfest.com/galf2011/photovideocoverage_2011.htm

Video of the release by Padma Bhushan and Oscar Award winner Gulzar

Book on Goa's passage to India released

http://www.navhindtimes.in/iwatch/book-goa-s-passage-india-released

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

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. 

MANGO MOOD - serving Goa Sunny Side Up

 



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

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

Featuring in the Goa LitFest - Mango Mood and Short Takes Long Memories

Sharmila Kamat's Short Takes, Long Memories and Mango Mood will released at the art-and-lit fest.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111127/jsp/7days/story_14804236.jsp

A ringside view of Goa’s passage to India after 451 years adrift in the Ultramar Português:  http://tinyurl.com/7lcux2o

Of men, matters and madcap capers in the part of India that once spoke with a Portuguese accent: http://tinyurl.com/6o53eby