The Transforming of Goa

We are happy to inform you that "The Transforming of Goa", a book by journalist the late Norman Dantas, and published by the Other India Press, will be released at the hands of Dr Peter Ronald de Souza (Professor and
Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Goa, on June 11, 1999, at 5.30 pm at the Shivrak, Hotel Nova in Panjim. Claude Alvares Editor Other India Press

About the Book

"The purpose of this book", wrote Norman Dantas, "is to help Goans break out of the fossilized amchem bhangarachem Goem ('our golden Goa') mindset and to promote a better understanding of where we really are at." The Transforming of Goa attempts to focus on Goa and the Goan identity as it has been-in flux and transformation-between the tradition-bound Portuguese period and the present India-oriented, development-driven democratic times. The book takes a close critical look at Goa's changing face and thus provides a much needed counterpoint to the considerable mythification that Goans are subjected to.
The essays selected for inclusion here are not esoteric articles, but deal with the matters and concerns of everyday life in Goa including the tiatr, the destruction of the Goan environment, the distortion of Goan culture
abroad, the celebration of Konkani mai, nationalism, local culture, the life of the Gawda-Kunbis, tourism and its impact on society and environment, the role of the church, the media and many other similar issues.
It is for the first time that all these essays written by first rate scholars, academics and journalists-and which have hitherto remained scattered in different journals-have been brought together in a single
volume which all Goans-and all those also keenly interested in Goa-are bound to relish and enjoy.
Contributors include Prabhakar Angley (A Culture 'Conceived' and Misconceived), Bal V Apte (Of Konkan Kashi and Rome of the East), Robert S Newman (The Struggle for a Goan Identity and Traditional Colonial to
Bourgeois Capitalist), Frederick Noronha (Of Forked Tongues and the Mother Tongue, and Popular Protest and the Free Goa Press), Nishtha Tombat (Varying Voices of Goan Nationalism), Teotonio de Souza (Traditional Colonial to Bourgeois Capitalist), Pramod Kale (Tiatr: Expression of the Live, Popular
Culture), Claude Alvares (Goa: The Politics of Environment Abuse), Devendra Karapurkar (Withering Goan Hindu Folk Theatre Forms), Anita Haladi (Unchanging Plight of the Original Goans) and David Wilson (Paradoxes of Tourism in Goa).

About the Editor

Norman Dantas, born in 1953, graduated from St. Xavier's College, Bombay University. He joined Goa Today first as Associate Editor and then Executive Editor. Thereafter he worked as Assistant Editor, O Heraldo,
Executive Editor, Goa Post, and again Deputy Editor, O Heraldo. In 1986, he helped found the Goa Foundation. He died on March 21, 1998, shortly after he had completed this book.

Transforming of Goa, (Publishing Data)
Release Date: June 11, 1999
ISBN No: 81-85569-45-2
Pp.212 (1999)
Price: Rs.175.00

Frederick Noronha