Mario Cabral e Sa... Remembering Dr Sharon ...Viva on Mangroves... Seeking assistance

[Frederick Noronha]

MARIO CABRAL E SA  (29 June 1932-19 June 2023), author and veteran journalist, passed away ten days short of his 91st birthday in Mumbai/Bombay.  In keeping with his wishes, his family will inter his ashes at the Divar cemetery in Goa on Saturday June 29, 2023 at 10.30 am followed by a funeral Mass at 11 am at the Our Lady of Piety Church at Piedade, Divar.  His family wrote: "We know that he would have loved to have his family, friends and fellow journalists to be there for one last farewell." His innumerable journalistic writing, articles and books have covered many aspects of Goa, especially one on films called 'Location Goa' (Dept of Information and Publicity, circa 2004).  The subjects he covered ranged from a sympathetic study of the Devadasis in Goa, to local history, crime and more. He was also part of two prestigious films shot in Goa -- Shyam Benegal's 'Trikaal' and the Gregory Peck-Roger Moore-David Niven Hollywood 1980 film 'The Sea Wolves'.  Full version of both films are incidentally available on YouTube.

REMEMBERING DR SHARON: She was a young, hardworking, prolific historian Dr Sharon D'Cruz who was popular in the Goa circuit, and who died young.  Activist and sociologist Sebastian (Seby) Rodrigues's tribute to her on her 10th death anniversary (seems like yesterday!) is here: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2023-July/200025.html

PHD ON MANGROVES: Shortly today, at 10 am at the Goa University, a viva voce of Ms Apurva S.  Sawant on 'Ecological and Endophyte Diversity Studies on Select Mangrove Plant Species at Chorao Island, Goa'.  See http://twitter.com/GoaUniversity/

FAVITA ROCHELLE DIAS from Goa has been accepted into the PhD program in Education at University of Reading, England. However, despite multiple efforts, she has been unable to secure any university funding. If you know of any source that could help, please connect via  favi...@gmail.com

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