Fado, Futebol e Fatima

Dear Mr. Veronica

I enjoy reading your texts about Goan tiatr and football. I wish you will soon be able to join the dispersed texts into books, or e-books. I wish you could throw in some dates (life-spans of individual tiatrists includes) of the various performances. Also a more organized presentation with tables of tiatrists village-wise and chronology-wise, could prepare your texts eventually for easy revision for printed books. Brief summaries of tiatrs would be welcome. You provide an excellent people's viewpoint, which has its merit in the activities that are primarily directed to people. Scholars would see them differently andwould like to relate the tiatr contents to prevailing social-economic-political situations. For instance, you emphasize the fact that the best tiatrists and Konkani singers were produced during the Portuguese times and performed at the Emissora de Goa. Why would that be? Panem et circenses - As Romans would say. Or Fado, Futebol e Fatima as the Salazar critics would say? Other media and forms of entertainment are certainly responsible for the change?

Please keep up your unique contribution to Goan culture.

Teotonio R. de Souza
Lisboa
Teotonio R. de Souza - teodesouza@gmail.com