Joseph Melville Pinto
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Latest posts by Joseph Melville PintoPlease do not (not) distort this FH&M into a "Forwarded as Received"Food for heart & mind (FH&M): <i>"The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another."</i>The quote in this e-letter is by Serena Williams, the tennis player, who is a woman and black. Like Wilma Rudolph, whose quote fe...
Posted on 16 August 2021 | 4:51 pm
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By Joseph M. Pinto As I finished reading the last of the fourteen prose-poems in this 85-page reflection by Vinita Deshmukh, entitled Lady Corona, on the reality of the Covid-19 pandemic, I began to re-read the first poem. And my personal beliefs got reinforced: 'The virus is not my enemy. Who says...
Posted on 16 March 2021 | 6:06 pm
Read postMy dear family, friends, colleagues, students and well-wishers, Two bits of different news for the record. No connection between the two activities, except that the teacher-author, is the same human-being, ie, me: 1. Finally, on Sunday 17 July 2016, I started the "Master's Proficiency in (written) E...
Posted on 13 December 2020 | 8:36 pm
Read postBy Favita Dias WHEN I joined Goa University in 2010, I was anxious. Of course, why not, right? It was a new place and a new environment all together. Besides, I was now all grown, a big girl, or at least I thought so. Joining the University was a matter of pride for me, not only because I was the on...
Posted on 13 October 2019 | 10:23 am
Read postMy dear family, friends, colleagues and students, The book of my memoir on my mother is ready! U will recall I wrote the first five parts in the form of four blog-posts here on Against the Tide, during 26 April to 25 May 2009. Your response encouraged me to write 20 more chapters. Now ten years late...
Posted on 9 April 2019 | 10:08 am
Read postBob Marley is one of my favourite singers. Here is a surprise from him. Peace and love, - Joe Pinto.
Posted on 12 November 2013 | 2:09 pm
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