Savia Viegas, Let Me Tell You About Quinta: Booktalk 20th @ 6.00 pm (Bookworm)
Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
From: Sujata Noronha <suj...@bookwormgoa.in>
Date: 19 June 2012 11:55
Subject: booktalk 20th @ 6.00 pm
To: sujata noronha <bookwo...@yahoo.com>
Dear Friends,
In our continuous, determined and focused effort to keep reading
alive, we schedule 20th of every month as booktalk day at Bookworm,
for grown ups and young readers.
We plan to have two separate sessions with the luxury that space now
affords us, and we start with Savia Viegas' book Let Me Tell you About
Quinta for the adults.
I know many of you emailed saying you could not find the book and I
still urge you to come! We will booktalk. We will have Savia at
Bookworm and we can booktalk with her !
We will also choose our book for the month of July at this meeting and
I urge you to come and partner with us.
Booktalk - Wednesday 20th June @ 6.00 pm @ bookworm.
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:49:03 -0400
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I enjoyed your review too, especially for the perspective on Goan politics that it offered.
A question. You suggest that Bandodkar was seeking to destroy the Catholic landlords. You then use this position to mark him out as communal.
However, why do we see his actions as aimed at only the Catholic landlords? Were there not Hindu landlords too who would be impacted by his legislation?
Looking forward to a reply,
and with thanks,
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Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
> Yes, I agree that a sex scene is not central to the plot. It would have been
> gratuitous.
> In my novels, however, sex is integral to the plot and character; hence it
> flows naturally.
Which makes me wonder: does one have to try real hard to 'win' the
bad-sex award? Or does it just come effortlessly :-)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/badsexaward
FN
Margaret Mascarenhas
Dear Savia,
Why was this at the precise time I have to troll though tax things with an accountant in Mapusa? I'm sorry I missed it and I hope the discussion was lively.
Best,
m
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> send us a report.
Sujata doesn't have the time or thought to post even announcements of
Bookworm programmes to lists she's on, like the Goa Book Club. So is
it realistic to expect a report?
I do hope someone proves me wrong... FN
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Nazareth, Peter
Dear Savia,
The following is from Milton Berle's Private Joke File:
A patient goes to a psychiatrist for the first time and is given some tests. The psychiatrist draws a circle and says, "What does this make you think of?"
"Sex."
The psychiatrist draws a tree and repeats the question.
"Sex," the patient answers again.
The psychiatrist proceeds to draw figures of all sorts--a house, a car, an apple, and so on--each time getting the same response. Sex, sex, and sex. Finally the psychiatrist says, "You have an obsession with sex."
The patient says, "Me? You're the one who's drawing all those dirty pictures!"
Peter.
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B MENEZES
Yes I recall (now with some regret) my declining at the time. I had already loaded up on Goa/Indian books to bring back to Toronto. Please save a set of both books for me. I am sending to details directly to your private email for payment and a delivery address in Goa, from where the books will be hand-carried safely. As you probably know, postage costs to Toronto almost quadruple the price of a book printed in Goa.
Congratulations again, and best for your continued and growing success.
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:48:21 +0530
Subject: Re: [GOABOOKCLUB] Savia Viegas, Let Me Tell You About Quinta: Booktalk 20th @ 6.00 pm (Bookworm)
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:00:51 +0530
Subject: Re: [GOABOOKCLUB] Savia Viegas, Let Me Tell You About Quinta: Booktalk 20th @ 6.00 pm (Bookworm)
Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
writer in Goa now! FN
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Margaret Mascarenhas
Of course I would be interested and also present were I not at this moment drowning in a sea of accounting for the jail writing/art project. I'm sorry I missed it. I think you may be referencing my ongoing but companionable disagreement with Fred about "Goan" writers being side-lined by larger publishing houses based on their being "Goan". I gave some examples, off the top of my head, but you would be one such example. A different discussion altogether. I consider writers as writers first and then whatever else they might be, you included :)
Also, I can't find the book. Who has it?
all best,
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Just to let you and the others know we do have your books in stock at Literati.
Diviya
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Date: 06/21/2012 06:34 PM
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Dear Savia,
When I read the joke from the Milton Berle book, I was reminded of a Goan friend of mine from university days, a year behind me, from Zanzibar (Adolfo will know her well). I met her a few years ago at the wedding of the son of a good friend of mine, Narendra Sood (again, Adolfo will know him well) here in the US. This was over three decades after I had last met her. She told me that George Fernandes (Adolfo will know him well) had loaned her my two novels but she found them too full of sex. She said not a word about the politics in the novel: neocolonialism (as presented and explained, not used as a slogan to damn the British). And I was thinking at the time, "She has six children and she says there is too much sex in my novels."
Incidentally, I loved the work of DH Lawrence and did an independent study on him at Makerere. My essay "DH Lawrence and Sex" was published in two parts in Transition magazine and then, in a revised form in my book Literature and Society in Modern Africa Nairobi/Kampala/ Dar es Salaam: EALB, 1972 [published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1974 as An African View of Literature]. I found out two years ago from Hartman de Souza that Violet Dias Lannoy had read this essay when she was working in Kenya for UNESCO in the late 60s (and revising her novel Pears From the Willow Tree] and told him about the essay. I did not know she even knew of my existence. I did not know of her at the time: I only found out about her in 1977 when I first began working on the Goan anthology.
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Peter
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However, as far as Sujata goes, Goa-Book-Club is still a read-only
medium :-) On that I'm not wrong. FN
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Frederick Noronha
small-time and local bookshops that we know them. When the last local
bookshop dies, then it will be too late to say -- where is all the
diversity that we wanted and so-took-for-granted?
I've dealt with the biggies (and still do), and know how much they
squeeze the publisher/author so as to be able to deliver those
discounts that send the buyer in a tizzy! Leonard has looked at the
kind of terms being offered for e-books by the big players! Talk to
him too if you don't believe me...
This trend could lead to a situation where the small players, not
having the margins, will be unable to work, while the biggies will
dominate the field from centres like Seattle, or Bangalore or Mumbai
and maybe two or three Goa-related books get published in a year
(which sell lakhs of copies each, of course).
The price we pay currently is chaotic bookshops, poor parking,
difficulty to get books, and smaller or no discounts. What we get in
return in more diversity in the market place and a larger number of
smaller (or local) businesses.
We already have the examples of the US, UK and French markets and what
Amazon et al have done there.
https://www.google.com/search?q=fighting+to+save+the+small+bookshop&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=iceweasel-a
Am surprised that nobody is raising these issues here, but we're
getting dazzled by the discounts and ease of shopping alone. I don't
agree one bit with this on Savia. It's a question of whether we're
raising the right issues or not. FN
PS: Each bookshop has its own character. We may or may not like it.
One of my favourite bookshops was Select in Bangalore, run by a
retired aeronautical engineer who loved books. So what if it's crammed
with old books probably from the times the Brits left Bangalore after
Independence?
Brian desouza
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The Flipkarts and Amazons
of the world are leading us to finish the
small-time and local bookshops that we know them. When the last local
bookshop dies, then it will be too late to say -- where is all the
diversity that we wanted and so-took-for-granted?
At one level you cannot embrace internet technology and become a cyber guru- proponent of new age communication because it suits you and at another level castigate the book trade on the Net because it hurts you (or hurts the mom-and-pop book stores). Mind you, even the brick and mortar book trade has undergone serious transformation with many biggies dominating these chains. It’s no more one-person book stores anymore. So, let’s precisely call it the Literati model, big-chain stores (Tata, Swaraj Pauls, et al) model and the Internet model.
My heart is all for the Literati model and I have patronized these all long – Strand Book Store (it really offered great discounts and that’s why it was a favourite place for all us, including you perhaps. So, giving discounts per se is not a crime) Coming to Literati, browsing is a pleasure and I totally agree with you on that and these kind of niche bookshops will surely survive, even if Flipkarts and Amazons become vicious in their marketing strategies. In other words, I will use Literati, Flipkart and Oxford Book Store and I think this choice is great!
I've dealt with the biggies
(and still do), and know how much they
squeeze the publisher/author so as to be able to deliver those
discounts that send the buyer in a tizzy! Leonard has looked at the
kind of terms being offered for e-books by the big players! Talk to
him too if you don't believe me...
Probably true! I can’t comment on this because both you and Leonard are part of the trade. But I know for a fact that the Internet model works on mass sales and lower prices for consumers. Travel industry is a classic case in this regard where travel agents (the middle men) have all but disappeared and consumers are getting the benefits. So, if a bookseller gets 40-50% commission and shares part of it with the buyers, is there anything wrong or unethical about this? Once again, Strand comes to mind where Shanbag built his business and fan-following on discounts. I have no clue as to whether he was squeezing anyone… I also know that Flipkart is making huge losses by offering these discounts and there are speculation that the site may shut down its books business eventually to cut losses. So that’s it. It’s a new business model and we are all learning from it. There is no need to jump to conclusions as to what will eventually pass the test of technology.
This trend could lead to a situation
where the small players, not
having the margins, will be unable to work, while the biggies will
dominate the field from centres like Seattle, or
Bangalore or
Mumbai
and maybe two or three Goa-related books get published in a year
(which sell lakhs of copies each, of course).
I have already dealt with this earlier. But one thing to add. Flipkarts and Amazons make it possible for us to get the books that you would not find normally on the shelves of either the mom-and-pop shops or even the big chain book store. Haven’t you felt it like this at any time? To give you an example, I was dying to get three volumes of Fernand Braudel epic history of the world. You know what, I got these on eBay and at a throw-away price. Similarly, I have procured several books on the art history from Amazon while researching on Fonseca. A small difference here. Earlier I was patronizing the imperialist and multinational Amazon and eBay; now I am championing the nationalist and home grown Flipkart!
The price we pay currently is chaotic
bookshops, poor parking,
difficulty to get books, and smaller or no discounts. What we get in
return in more diversity in the market place and a larger number of
smaller (or local) businesses. We already have the examples of the US, UK and
French markets and what Amazon et al have done there.
This can be said about every business and Internet in general. Small-is-beautiful! But the reality is that younger generation wants to embrace the Internet for everything, including buying books, It is important to keep and encourage the reading habits without worrying too much about from where the books are bought. So long my dear friend they reach the door step of the reader and are being read.
Read, Read and Read.
Am surprised that nobody is raising these issues here
Yes, I agree the dominance of some companies on the Net. You mention Amazon and its adverse impact. Suggesting strongly that we should shun these. I would mention even stronger monopoly and evil on the Net – Google. There are millions of cases and 100s of appeals in courts all over the world about its dominance on our lives and on the depository of human knowledge itself. What are we doing about this? Is there anyone out there who says that he or she is willing to give up googling?
PS: Each bookshop has its own character.
We may or may not like it.
One of my favourite bookshops was Select in Bangalore, run by a
retired aeronautical engineer who loved books. So what if it's crammed
with old books probably from the times the Brits left Bangalore
after
Independence?
I have never denied this. My favourite is Literati and I think hats off to Diviya, she runs the show on professional terms. In Mumbai, it was Strand (for discounts only!)
NOW DEAR FRIENDS I REST MY CASE.
SAVIA
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