Stories by Walter Menezes

  Cover image : A farmer in Ambaulim-Kepem, not very far from my residence. "After allowing the first flush of rain-water (which contains dust and bird droppings) to run to waste, one can collect water in buckets and use it to flush toilets, wash laundry, etc. This way, we can save a lot of water throughout the monsoon season. All it calls for is a small effort on our part." - My 2012 interview with  ANTONIO P. DINIZ , retired Town Planner, TCP Department, Govt. of Goa. [ GT Weekender  dated July 8, 2012.] Come June, and every year the fields and the forests of Goa wait patiently for the monsoon clouds to gather and the skies to open. Stifling heat, dust and sweat makes way for the relief of the rain-drops and all at once, the earth around us is green and ‘born again’! While it is true that Goa experienced lashing spells of ‘pouring rain’ for a couple of days, throwing normal life in a tizzy, the sun is back on the scene, making ‘guest appearances’ almost on a regular bas...

  Cover image :  A Vanguarda   ( Dec 31, 1956) /  Gõykar   (June 18, 1980) Prabhakar Tendulkar was equally vociferous when he spoke about the Sahitya Akademi Awards ( Gõykar , Oct 2008 issue),  Sod’dea ji pod’dot asa ti apleach bhitor Award vanttun ghevpachi koxi dista.  Elsewhere in the same article, he said:  Romi lipientle Konknnint borim pustokam boroun aplem akhem jivit sarlelea Fr. Antonio Pereira sarkhilea boroupeak Sahitya Akademicho Award mellunk nam…’  (The present arrangement looks like they want to share the award amongst themselves… A writer like Fr. Antonio Pereira who spent his whole life writing quality Konknni books in the Romi script did not receive the Sahitya Akademi Award…) REMEMBERING PRABHAKAR TENDULKAR (4.6.1934 – 16.2.2013) Writer. Editor. Publisher. Doyen of the Konknni Movement. [This article, now slightly edited, appeared in Gomantak Times on 3.6.2009. The next day, on his  75th Birthday , Prabhakar Tendulkar ...