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CYPRIAN FERNANDES: The "dodderers" strike back

The making of an East African Goan dodderer! By Cyprian Fernandes (An old post) There is an unwritten law that you don't denigrate the aged, the infirm, the sick, mentally and physically afflicted. This same gene is part of the Goan DNA and from a very early age children used to be taught this. Even more emphatically, children are taught to respect their elders and often called the elderly uncle or auntie. This is common throughout the world among close communities. In Australia, the Aborigines practise it with a gusto that is refreshing. In choosing to perpetrate the mindless insult by another so-called writer, I do it with both disappointment and shame that a fellow Goan should stoop so low. Who the heck gives anyone the right to disdainfully call someone a dodderer? Why is it that the pipsqueaks of this world who cause hurt by doing or saying (or writing in this case) the dumbest things? Or was it really a silly, fruitless exercise in riling the meek? Roland Francis di...

CYPRIAN FERNANDES: Readers' response to Ben Antao "Literary Maladies)

"Africa changes you forever like nowhere on earth. Once you have been there, you will never be the same. But how do you begin to describe its magic to someone who has never felt it ?" – Anon. Mervyn Maciel , Bwana Karani, and From Mtoto to Mzee: "I'm afraid Ben Antao's rather flippant comments on East African Goans have stirred up a hornet's nest. Perhaps that was his intention. How can one who has never lived in East Africa, savoured the beauty of this "God's own country" or met some of its wonderful people know just how we, seasoned East African Goans feel? Speaking personally, I feel Cyprian Fernandes could not have chosen a more appropriate title for his book. Kenya was indeed a paradise for those of us who were born and lived in that beautiful country. How can we ever forget the wonderful lives we had or the wonderful people that came our way? And what's wrong about reminiscing about those glorious times? ...

Ferdie Rodrigues: A brother's lament

EULOGY TO A DEAR BROTHER EULOGY TO A DEAR BROTHER FERDINAND “FERDIE” RODRIGUES: 10.12.1933 Jinja Uganda 11.08.2018 London UK By Armand Rodrigues This is a solemn occasion. We come to mourn an esteemed member of our community. We come to mourn an outstanding individual. We come to share in the grief of his kith and kin. We come to take inventory of our loss. When death delivers its final blow, many platitudes are spoken and many phrases reiterated. Thus, when a truly special person is taken from us, phrases may sound hollow. Words in themselves cannot exemplify the tremendous life and accomplishments that we mourn today. And, it is not how long one has lived, but how one lived , that matters. Ferdie was born on December 10, 1933, in Uganda, and he breathed his last on August 11, 2018 in London, England. His was a life well-lived. His attributes and accomplishments are too numerous to mention. I will only skim the surface. He had a sound educational ba...

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