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  GOANS   around the world have a lot in common. There is one trait we would rather not have and that is the ability of putting crap on fellow Goans, the age-old crabs in a bucket (when one tries to climb out of the bucket, 12 others pull it down). It is a metaphor that used apply in the old days in most aspects of Goan life. I have been accused of that often, especially when writing the facts as they are, or bringing to light an unsavory fact. As a journalist, I never abuse my profession using it to personally attack any human being. I would rather the facts speak for themselves, as a commentator, critic, observer, I have that right.   In the  Epilogue of my debut novel Yesterday in Paradise I wrote: I am a Goan. I am a Kenyan. I am British. I am Australian. I am a man of many parts from many places, but right now the whole of me is Australian. Yet, the punchline was quite simply: The Goan in me will only die with that final (last) sunset.   So, I was...

  Hidden Gems Review of Twilight of the Exiles by Cyprian Fernandes "Twilight" is available from Amazon, paperback and Kindle versions.  Cyprian Fernandes, a well-known writer and popular journalist, is a Kenya born, ex Nairobi Goan, who now resides in Sydney, Australia. The author of the much acclaimed, Stars Next Door, which captured the stories of the sports stars within the East African Goan community of his generation. Yesterday in Paradise , was another personal and historical account of life in East Africa of members of the Goan community who lived there. Yesterday at the Nation, provides more accounts from the days the author first worked as a sports journalist at the Kenya based newspaper. His latest book, Twilight of the Exiles, comprises of some forty one stories written by migrants who are all originally from Goa, a small Portuguese enclave on the Westcoast of India on the Arabian Sea, but most of whom were forced to leave Africa and relocate elsewhere....

  How Goan Peter Nazareth tried to literalise Amin and Elvis Presley Saturday, August 28, 2021  NATION NAIROBI  By Austin Bukenya What you need to know: * Nazareth showed that the lyrics of pop songs and other events of popular culture could be profitably read and interpreted as creative texts. * Nazareth is best-known in East Africa for his critical writings and his novels, especially In a Brown Mantle and The General Is Up. * Peter Nazareth is now an octogenarian. That puts him in the same venerable rika of literary elders as his friend and Makerere contemporary, Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Nazareth, the Goan-Ugandan-American literary maestro, is best-known for dragging the rock-n-roll idol, Elvis Presley, into the lecture rooms of American universities. His trail-blazing experiment introduced the teaching of the pop song into (English) literary studies. Nazareth showed that the lyrics of pop songs and other events of popular culture could be profitably read and interpreted as c...

  Westerns of my life   https://tubitv.com/.../604654/the-american-west-of-john-ford I don’t think there are too many fans of the old westerns left. For one thing, they are largely politically incorrect. However, they are part of my DNA and greatest actors among them were Roy Rogers, Buck Jones, Gary Cooper, Gary Cooper, Alan Ladd, Burt Lancaster, Henry Fonda, John Wayne and a million others. Perhaps the greatest director, certainly the Pappy of Westerns was the brilliant John Ford. If you can get a link to this channel, you can watch the old movies for free. Below is a pretty historic piece of TV.   Westerns. Arguably the greatest of the actors in Westerns must be John Wayne, his movie True Grit is considered the greatest. There are other names ... Sam Elliot him with the longest tache and drawl to boot, Kirk Douglas, Glen Ford ice cool, William Holden the educated man's westerner, Audie Murphy in another life he went To Hell and Back, Gregory Peck just one sta...

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  MANDATE COVID VACCINATIONS HERE in Australia, most states and capital territories will embark on the heartache and terror of our fourth or fifth month of the Covid lockdown. Around the world in these, the darkest hours of our lives, we share the same stories. I have many friends around the world who were not able to visit a dying spouse, child or friend in hospital. They could not share those dying moments, hold their hands and giving them the last moments of comfort. They will never know what it was like because it did not happen. A friend is getting a kidney transplant in London, but his relatives have been advised not to visit him. Can anything be more harrowing than not being able to say goodbye to a loved one? I think not. Only those friends who have been through this know the true sorrow they will remember for the rest of their lives. My prayers and thoughts with them always. Here is a note I got from friends across the ditch (NZ): As we started with a few cases in Auck...

 Some of these may or may not work very well, apologies/.\ Working on the rest. Highlight the link and click on it! https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/videos/tokyo-2020-a-celebration-of-hope Neeraj Chopra https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/videos/neeraj-chopra-indias-man-golden-arm-javelin-champion Mens 100 metres final https://7news.com.au/sport/olympics/jacobs-distances-himself-from-nutritionist-c-3622065 Womens 100m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pgoMCc08yA Mens 200 metres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_P0obZ982o Womens 200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elYhC399gaA Mens 400 metres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG91krXuxyw Womens 400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOK7DvZzo9g Womens 400 hurdles https://www.njspotlight.com/video/sydney-mclaughlin-wins-olympic-gold-in-womens-400-meter-hurdles/ Mens 800 metres https://7plus.com.au/olympic-games-tokyo-2020?episode-id=OGT121-812 https://7plus.com.au/olympic-games-tokyo-athletics?video-id=7ATH-BTLVH-6H0FM https://ww...