Gilbert Menezes, (retd. I. N) comments

I bought your book a month ago and I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading it, so I took it along to the US as a gift for my daughter. I am sure she will derive the same pleasure I got from reading it . I must congratulate you for your research into the lives of our forgotten Goan brethren, and also for your fluid and absorbing style of writing. I am confident that your book will enrich the Goan literary scene...my grand uncle Dr Rozendo Ribeiro who rode on a zebra on the streets of Nairobi...Incidentally, my good friend Damascene Soares who presently lives in Aldona spent many hours in the water after his ship DARA was sunk, an incident also mentioned in your book

Antonio Menezes comments

I really liked your chapter

on Goa and the rest of the book was equally interesting.  Completed reading it two

days inspite of my poor  eyesight.

Bob da Costa comments

I must congratulate you on a wonderful and extremely well written book.  I was born in Nairobi, was twenty at Kenya's independence and find you description of our situation there very accurate.  I am Pio Gama Pinto's cousin.....

Devika Sequeira - Deccan Herald, Review

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/86883/piecing-together-fascinating-story-goan.html

Rosie Dias comments

"The book arrived this morning, and I am very much looking forward to reading it in full.  My grandfather was the S Francis Dias mentioned in your chapter on Kenya.  Sadly, I never knew him as he died when my father was quite young but I've heard lots of family stories about the shop and house in Mombasa, which was, apparently, a point of contact and place to stay for Goans arriving in the country - they always had a house full of recent arrivals, by all accounts."