George Menezes

Television offers us a lot of choices. News, movies, sports, cartoons, history, geography, and a plethora of dance and music competitions, you name it. You can also have the language of your choice.

I therefore have no rational explanation for almost rarely watching television. I prefer good old reading, walking at the Joggers Park conveniently located near my residence, swimming or actually fooling around the pool watching mothers of different shapes and sizes teaching their kids to swim. I am not so sure which.

The old girl watches the IPL matches and thinks I am mad not to join her.

I have been a professional cricketer and hate the way cricket has been desecrated, commercialized and milked dry of every joy it had to offer.

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A strange thing is happening to me these days. Standing outside myself, I seem to be watching the last days of my life passing by like a large landscape banging at the windows of a slow  train to nowhere. And I have no explanation for it. (more…)

If there was a fear that tourism was going to take a beating in Goa, think again.

There is too much happening in “amchem” Goa. And the happenings are of such exciting proportions that it will attract thousands of Indians and foreigners whose boredom levels have touched bottom, pun intended, like the Dow Jones and the Sensex. (more…)

I owe it to readers of GOA TODAY to explain my “status”, as it were. What kind of a Goan do I represent when I write for Goan journals?
For one thing, it would help in putting what I have to say in the right context.
As would be evident, I am not a tourist (foreign or desi) staying in a five star hotel where you can pick up the phone, dial Room Service, House Keeping or Reception and get your smallest needs taken care of.
I am also not an Indian tourist, whose weekend trip revolves around ogling semi-nudes on the beaches, sight-seeing old churches and temples and getting too drunk on a mixture of rum, beer and feni to give a damn about anything. (more…)