symposium participants

  • THE PROBLEM
    Posed by Maria Aurora Couto, writer, Aldona Bardez, Goa

  • DEMOCRACY'S INCONVENIENT FACT
    Peter Ronald deSouza, Professor and Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

  • IMPACT OF DEMOCRACY AND FEDERALISM ON GOA
    Vishvanath Pai Panandiker, Founder President, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi (1973-2000), Panjim, Goa

  • RURAL  SELF-GOVERNMENT GOAN STYLE
    T.D. Halarnakar, writer, ex-President All India Konkani Parishad and ex-editor Konkani Encyclopedia, Goa University, Porvorim

  • THE GOAN ECONOMY
    Alban Couto, retired from the Indian Administrative Service, Aldona Bardez, Goa

  • FOR A HUMANE TOURISM 
    Roland Martins, social activist, DESC Resource Centre, Mapusa, Goa

  • THE JOURNEY OF GOAN FOOD
    Fatima da Silva Gracias, historian, author and President, Research Institute for Women, Panjim, Goa

  • MOTHER TONGUE BLUES
    Madhavi Sardesai, linguist, Department of Konkani, Goa University, Taleigao, Goa
#543 
November 2004

AMCHEM GOEM
a symposium on the many 
facets of Goan society  


cover design by Akila Seshasayee

Nest month: Bhopal

 

 

 

  • REVIVING CULTURAL TRADITIONS
    Damodar Mauzo, writer and novelist; executive member of the Sahitya Academy, Margao and Xavier Cota, writer and translator; social activist, Goa

  • FOLK CULTURE
    Pandurang R. Phaldesai, Member Secretary, Kala Academy, Panjim, Goa

  • GOAN ARCHITECTURE
    Jose Pereira, Professor Emeritus in Theology, Fordham University, New York

  • GOAN HOUSES
    Heta Pandit, writes on architecture and conservation; Secretary, Goa Heritage Action Group, Porvorim, Goa

  • A PERSONAL VIEW
    Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar, scholar of comparative religion and writer, Benaulim, Salcete, Goa

  • AN OUTSIDER IN GOA
    Bal Mundkur, founder, Ulka Advertising, now retired in Reis Magos, Tiswadi, Goa

  • REMEMBERING ANTHONY GONSALVES
    Naresh Fernandes, Editor, 'Time Out', Mumbai

  • BOOKS
    Reviewed by Uday Bhembre and Xavier Cota

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