The Ben Antao Files

Ben Antao is a native of Velim, Salcete, Goa. After a stint as a journalist in India, Ben migrated to Canada where he now resides with his family and practices in the realm of Finance. Despite his schedule, Ben does find those delightful words which hold  ones attention and makes one want to read more & more. Ben is one of those individuals who was "born with the golden fountain pen in his mouth".

One of the founders of  TGF, Ben certainly has a way with words

Thank you Ben 

Gain offsets brain drain in Canada

Ben Antao's Blood and Nemesis
* review  by Anne Osborne
* review  by Lino Leitão
* review  by Cyril D'Cunha
* review  by Michelle Ponto

Ben Antao's Goa - a Rediscovery
* review by José Colaço
* review by Lino Leitão

Maria Aurora Couto's: Goa A Daughter’s Story - review

Maestro Antonio Figueiredo - 1963 tribute

Naked Goa - Ben Antao's review of a book by Anthony Barreto ( alias Tony Martin)

Dayanand Bandodkar - Goa' Machiaevelli (2003)

Cuba 2000

Goan Diaspora (2002)

Goans in the diaspora(1998)

The Basilica of Bom Jesus

What Goa's first Assembly session did (1964)

A news story that incensed Bandodkar(1964)

The Goan Condition

A Mando for your Nostalgia

Freedom of thought

Come December (1964)

Goans in the diaspora

I can't go to Goa again

Sorrowing Lies My Land - revisited

re: A Passage to Goa

Learning to swim

Monsoon lifestyle in Goa

The Altar Boy

Regarding Family Feuds

The story of  "St. Philomena"

Altar boy

Doctors

History & Culture

Some Christian Goans trying hard to deny Lusitanian connection

India & her Mother tongues 

Corruption in India

Goan Participation in Politics

Ganpati

Footprints

The Crow and the Mango

Hugo de Souza - an appreciation

Francis Newton D'Souza - a modern art genius (1963)

September 26, 2005

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