Mango Mood: Bringing out different shades and colours of life

 

“On the first day, he is not unduly perturbed, the taste of yesterday’s fish curry is still fresh, on the second day the memory persists-but only just. On third day, no sooner is the idol of Lord Ganesh given a ceremonial immersion than he’s back to where he belongs – in the fish market, making up for the lost time.”
-from the book ‘Mango Mood’

Bringing out different shades and colours of life and society in a book through writing requires serious observation and presentation skill. When the book comes as a collection of writings the reading becomes more interesting. ‘Mango Mood’ is one of the books falls in this category.


Read the entire review of Mango Mood in the Sunday Book Review at Fachcha by Subhadra

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A ringside view of the passage to India of Goa, the subcontinent’s beach paradise, from prized jewel in the Ultramar Português. Short Takes chronicles the tale of a land caught between the irresistible pull of free India and the immovable obduracy of Salazarist Portugal. The book is based on the reminiscences of diplomat Prabhakar Kamat.

In the late 1940s, the narrator leaves Goa for war-ravaged Europe. Here, his adventures navigating the minefield of culture shocks are tempered with sobering encounters with revolutionaries from Asia and Africa. He returns to a Goa caught in a tug-of-war between free India and an unyielding Lusitania. A blink-and-you-missed-it Indian Army action lets Goa rejoin India and plunge into its hectic, colourful democracy.

Goa’s date with self-rule galvanises Portugal to follow suit.

Short Takes Long Memories now available on books at rediff.com

Showcasing life as it was (and in many ways, still is) in Goa

Down Memory Lane in Goa - Short Takes

An eyewitness account of Growing up Goan in a land caught between the irresistible pull of free India and the immovable object that was the obduracy of the Portuguese authoritarian regime.

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Goa Down the Ages - Short Takes Long Memories

 A Goa pre and post Liberation with its caminhaos (public buses), its village elders debating world affairs between snarky observations on the local femme fatale, with its cafetarias serving piping hot bhajias and shiras in faith-coded cutlery, where law and order was (sort of) maintained by Keystone cops and an army with 2 anti-aircraft guns, both of which ought by rights have been retired years ago, made up the defence of a 451 year old colonization.

Short Takes Long Memories

By Prabhakar Kamat and Sharmila Kamat
http://www.rupapublications.co.in/client/Book/Short-Takes-Long-Memories.aspx

A ringside view of an eventful period in Goa’s history – its transition from being a Portuguese colony to becoming Indian, this is a tale of a land caught between the irresistible pull of India and the immovable object that was the inflexible colonial regime. The book is based on the reminiscences of I.A.S. officer and diplomat Prabhakar Kamat. In the late 1940s, Prabhakar Kamat abandons the somnolence of Goa to travel by sea to Europe for higher studies. In Lisbon, his adventures navigating the minefield of culture shocks are tempered by encounters with revolutionaries from the larger Portuguese Empire. He returns to a Goa still under colonial rule, but with India’s patience wearing thin. A blink-and-you-missed-it Army action in 1961 lets Goa join India and plunge into its hectic, colourful democracy. Goa’s date with self-rule galvanises Portugal to follow suit. With sharp insight and witty anecdotes, the book showcases life as it was (and in some ways, still is) in Goa.

About the authors:

Prabhakar Kamat is a retired I.A.S officer and diplomat from Goa. He has held very senior positions in the administration of Portuguese Goa and India. He has worked for the Ministry of Finance of Portugal and has been Director of Economic Services before the Liberation of Goa. He was Director in the office of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Counsellor in the Indian Embassy in Lisbon. He retired as chairman, Mormugão Port Trust.

Sharmila Kamat is an astrophysicist who is also an established writer and author. She has a PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and is a recipient of a University Fellowship by Columbia University in New York. Her research studies the constitution of the Universe, particularly what makes up the hidden mass we call dark matter. She was Faculty in Physics in a Goan college before proceeding to the US.

Asia writers Project announces Long List of Vodafone Crossword Award 2011

Mango Mood features as one of the Non-fiction entries in the LongList

Mango Mood in Vodafone Crossword Bookstore Awards Long List in Non Fiction

 

Mango Mood by Sharmila Kamat, Rupa Publications, 2010
features as one of the Long List in the Non Fiction category of the Vodafone Crossword Bookstore Book Awards 2010

See IBN Live for details

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/vodafonecrossword-book-award-longlist-announced/151369-40-100.html