A review of Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told

[Selma Carvalho]

Savia Viegas reviews Manohar Shetty's 'Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told' (Aleph) and gives a nod to the diasporic writers in it.

"In the same vein of emigration and east/west encounters, Steve R. E. Pereira’s (‘A Dolphin in the Ganges’) cameos the encounter of a second-generation Australian of a young tourist-boat rower whom he had encountered on the river Ganges. Selma Carvalho’s piquant narrative (‘Bed Blocker No 10’) of a nurse’s encounter with a patient in his terminal years and Roanna Gonsalves’ (‘Curry Muncher’) bring out the pathos and violence of lives lived in new homelands. Derek Mascarenhas’ (‘Coconut Dreams’) museumifies the experience of returning for the first time to the homeland of one’s ancestors.

https://www.navhindtimes.in/2022/11/27/magazines/panorama/goa-and-its-stories-a-commendable-compilation/

Best wishes,

Selma