Picture-Postcard Poverty : Unheard Voices, Forgotten Issues from Rural Goa
Language: Eng Publication details: Saligao Bardez Goa Goa 1556 2008 Edition: 1st EditionDescription: iv, 125p. Soft/Paper BoundISBN: 9788190568289Subject(s): Social and Culture, History of Asia; Far East, History of Goa, South Asia; IndiaDDC classification: 954.799Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | HPSMs Ganpat Parsekar College of Education, Harmal HPS-History of Goa | HPS-HISTORY | 954.799 MAN/PIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | - | 1 | Available | 11 Shelf | HPS-C4795 |
Goa, the former Portuguese colony in India, is often subsumed in media-driven cliches of being a beach-sun-and-fun place. The dominant image we are left with is of a State on permanent holiday, urbanised and inhabited by a Westernised middle-class.
This reality too does exist in pockets; but its dominant projection sidetracks a range of other issues. Social activist Kalanand Mani and journalist Frederick Noronha focus on concerns emerging from the farm and field, and tell the story of a Goa often overlooked.
For this task, they lean on the work of the Madkai (Ponda)-based Peaceful Society, which completes a quarter century of encountering rural Goa. They track other work focussing on the concerns of the poor, in a way that seeks to build a closer understanding of Goa's heartland.
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