Showing posts with label Salazar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salazar. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2011

An engaging work with an easy read and vast canvas: Review of Short Takes Long Memories in the Sunday Indian

His personal experiences are woven with passion that entice the reader till the end

Read it all here

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Colonial Pimple refused to burst

Learn why Goa remained a ‘colonial pimple’ on the face of India, to borrow Jawaharlal Nehru’s felicitous choice of words, long after India became independent and other colonial powers had followed Britain in booking a one-way ticket out of the subcontinent.

Though Benjamin Franklin was quick to pronounce, "Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days," the Portuguese strongman- Antonio Salazar, just would not take the hint

 Pic courtest: D Kirk

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Down Memory Lane in Goa


An eyewitness account of Growing up Goan in a land caught between the irresistible pull of free India and the immovable object that was the obduracy of the Portuguese authoritarian regime.