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.

http://www.rupapublications.co.in/client/Book/Short-Takes-Long-Memories.aspx

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.

Penny Pinching unparalled - with fascism as a side order

Take up #ShortTakesLongMemories to learm more about the dictator Salazar who, as P.G. Wodehouse so eloquently put it, "would walk ten miles in tight shoes to pick up tuppence"

Available at:

http://www.rupapublications.co.in/client/Book/Short-Takes-Long-Memories.aspx

Replug: Life and Times in Goa and Portugal

On penny-pinching dictators and penny-saving locals: in the July issue of Goa Today

Featuring Short Takes Long Memories - a commentary on Goa, Portugal and Antonio Salazar - the fascist ruler as noted for his tightfistedness as for his tight fist

Penny pinching - unparalleled, with fascism as a side-order

Take up  #ShortTakesLongMemories to learm more about the dictator Salazar who, as P.G. Wodehouse so eloquently put it, "would walk ten miles in tight shoes to pick up tuppence"

Two Prisoners - one Jailer - a ringside seat in both cases

"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