Stories by Walter Menezes

  Fottu kaddunk sohokar dilolea khatir  Longuinhos -ant vaur korpi  Inas  ani  Andrew -k Dev borem korum! Longuinhos  hea Moddganvchea  restaurant -ant Rosario-babachem ek tharavik  table  ani kodel aslem khoim. Thoinch voranchim-voram boison to aple khell-tiatr boroitalo. Tem mez ani tem kodel tachea monant xiztolea vichearanchea vhallank kagdacher vhanvunk sangat ditalim. Fottu:  JoeGoaUk -chea upkaran Rosario Rodrigues (24 Otumbr 1944 – 5 Agost 2003),  Gõycho xrextth kolakar ani borovpi Khell ani khell-tiatrak Rosario-baban khub moladik yogdan dilolem asa. Gombhir vixoyancher tannem aple khell-tiatr boroile ani mhaka ugddas zata te pormonnem to machier ubo ravlearuch puro aslem, ami sogle tachem ‘acting’ pollounche poilinch  hanstale. Tachi  comedy  khubuch unchlea dorjeachi asli. Meenakxi  ho aplo khell-tiatr gheun to poilech pauttim vevsayik machier porzoll’llo ani te uprant  aple khell-tiatr xaramni an...

  Hailing from Saligao,  Fr. Edwin   D'Souza  was a man far ahead of his times and embraced, as the years went by, everything that was Indian. He exchanged his stiff-collared cassock for a cotton kurta in saffron and took great delight in calling himself  Swami Premananda Naik Salgaonkar . And the principal who once took us to task in the school assembly for having allowed our hair to grow over our ears, now began, much to our surprise, letting his hair down so low that they touched his shoulders and he began to look like a real  swamiji !  FR. EDWIN D'SOUZA 17.10.1918 - 27.10.1996 If you happen to visit Pope John XXIII High School in Quepem, past the main gate and the basketball court and immediately to your right, you will see the bust of Fr. Edwin D'Souza, the founder of Boys Town, against a backdrop depicting the various faces and facets of a man and a missionary who shaped and molded thousands of young lives. He was my guru, my teacher and my prin...