Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 246

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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "Living history. Writing life" (Vivek Pinto)
   2. TO SAVE GOA :- GOANS MUST ....SERIOUSLY /SPITUALLY PRAY WITH
      GOD ...SO THAT WE CHOSE !? .....FROM THE TWO ?? (Miguel Barreto)
   3. Read: "How lovingly curated independent bookstores are
      helping reading culture grow in India" (Vivek Pinto)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 16:08:55 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "Living history. Writing life"
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By: Naveen Kishore
Published in: *The Telegraph*
Date:  May, 18, 2026
Source:
https://www.telegraphindia.com/life/living-history-writing-life-romila-thapar-on-nationalism-dissent-and-memory-prnt/cid/2160960
*Note: *Please access the source to read the entire article

Romila Thapar in conversation with Naveen Kishore about writing a memoir.
Seagull Books recently published Romila Thapar?s *Just Being: A Memoir*.

*Naveen: For those of us who are responsive and responsible beings, a
certain reluctance to write about ourselves, our journeys, our political
actions, our desire to do the ?right thing?, does create a checkpoint of
sorts. A barrier. If this reticence comes with a desire to protect one?s
secret introspective cave, space, retreat, then it becomes a constant and
often self-adversarial battle between what to share and what to omit. And
yet as a historian of stature, an intellect that often jumps into the fray,
lends a hand and shoulder, and your name, to political causes, issues that
most people turn a blind eye to, this is almost a contradiction. The public
figure as a seeker of privacy! But those of us who pick up your ?life? as a
book, crave insights. Not the instant gratification served up by
algorithms. No, we seek life lessons. Again, not necessarily because we
wish to act upon them, or adopt them, but out of the desire to turn our own
introspection into a participatory activity in these dark times.*

*Romila:* It is a memoir in a way but it?s also capturing an age, which I
think is very important, something we tend not to do too much of. Memoirs
are not just a catalogue of routine existence, they?re terribly important.
Even the mundane and the ordinary have a place when you?re trying to
reconstruct an age, an age of thinking and acting and asking ? What was it
like? Why was it like that? Why did people behave like that? Why did people
think like that?


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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 11:04:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: [Goanet] TO SAVE GOA :- GOANS MUST ....SERIOUSLY /SPITUALLY
	PRAY WITH GOD ...SO THAT WE CHOSE !? .....FROM THE TWO ??
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TO? SAVE GOA ,? ?GOANS HAVE COME TO FINAL CONCLUSION .?Ie? GOANS( ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS)? MUST NOW SERIOUSLY AND SPITUALLY PRAY WITH OUR LOVING LORD OUR GOD .....TO GUIDE US ....TO CHOSE FROM THE TWO BELOW.
1--? )? GOANS MUST EITHER PRAY &/OR? REQUEST /ASK/DEMAND? ...FROM? OUR? GOOD SHEPHERD ( F N F) .....TO BE IN-FRONT( and not behind or silent spectator)? ....TO LEAD US ( SHEEPS WITHOUT SHEPHERD) IN ORDER TO .... UNITE ALL PRIESTS /CHRISTIANS? .....AND ALL? GODS BELOVED ONES(GOAN CHRISTIANS AND ALLIES OF 16TH/JAN/1967 REFERENDUM VICTORY OVER EVILS) ,,....? AS COMPARISON SHOWS US .....HOW BISHOP OF EAST TIMOR DID PREVOUSLY AND SAVED EAST TIMOR ( PORTUGUESE-INDIA) THAT ANNEXED BY INDONESIA ( DUTCH INDIA) FOR 24 YEARS . !!!
? IF? HE (F.N.FERRAO ) LISTENS ...,? THEN WELL AND GOOD.
BUT IF HE? IS OF STIFF NECK --( Exodus 32/ Acts? 7) .... AND KNOWINGLY DOES NOT OBLIGE TO OUR HUMBLE REQUEST IN GOOD FAITH ....THEN RIGHTEOUS GOANS ( EVEN FEW) MUST UNITE AND DO WHAT JESUS DID IN MATTHEW 21;12-13?
AND/OR?2---)? SERIOUSLY UNITE AND PRAY OPENLY......WITH GOD ...., TO GIVE US GOOD SHEPHERD THAT WILL BE? ?RIGHTEOUS, BRAVE AND OF GODS WISDOM .....TO? LEADS US AGAINST EVIL AND LAWLESSNESS ( MT 7;21-23) .....AS JESUS TOO WARNED US I.......THAT NO GOOD SHEPHERD REMAINS SILENT SPECTATOR WHEN EVIL AND LAWLESSNESS PREVAILS ( ONLY BAD/CORRUPT ONE DOES ) .........AS WE COMPARE THE? EXAMPLE OF HOW TRUE / RIGHTEOUS GOOD BISHOP( SHEPHERD)? OF EAST TIMOR DID......FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND GODS KINGDOM TO PREVAIL.?
GOD BLESS YOU ALL ..WHO GOT EARS TO HEAR ( LUKE 8)
TO SAVE GOA:--? ?URGENTLY, GOANS DOES? NEED? GOOD SHEPHERD & /OR MUST SEEK HELP (S.O.S GOA) TOO ...BOTH FROM GOOD SHEPHERD AND GODS NATIONS (MT 12:21) TOO.AMEN.
note:-- please think about it seriously ....? and/or ....discuss it with fellow Gods beloved ones who got wisdom of god in them ?!!? cause we got DUTY TO CARE ..for Gods kingdom to prevail ( and not evil-lawlessness? Mt 7:21-23)

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 22:05:35 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "How lovingly curated independent bookstores
	are helping reading culture grow in India"
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By: Aakriti Mandhwani [Aakriti Mandhwani is an Associate Professor at the
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University. She is the
author of *Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in
Post-Independence India.]*
Published in: *Scroll*
Date: May 17, 2026
Source:
https://scroll.in/article/1092790/how-lovingly-curated-independent-bookstores-are-helping-reading-culture-grow-in-india
*Note: *Please access the source to read the entire article.

"Writer Aakriti Mandhwani writes about her trysts with India?s various
independent bookstores.

In beautiful Margao, Goa, Dogears
<https://thedogearsbookshop.com/?v=13b5bfe96f3e> has curated shelves on,
among other things: marginalised voices in literature, on books about
books, and books on cities. The bookshop assistants draw attention to how
the shelves have been stacked. Shoes have to be left outside.  The location
of a bookstore sometimes dictates the existence of specific stacks. Dogears
has a section dedicated to the history, literature, and the being of Goa.
There is also an entire floor dedicated to pre-owned books and children?s
books."


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