Goa, June 14 -- Vivek Menezes

Eunice de Souza was already 67 when she delivered her first public reading in her ancestral homeland, on a luminous evening in 2007, on a little stage under a vast rain tree (now cut down) behind the magnificent 150-year-old Old Goa Medical College building that had just then been handed over - absolutely shockingly - to Delhi developers to convert into a shopping mall.

The great poet, and legendary professor of English Literature at Mumbai's St. Xavier's College had been invited to Panjim (actually it was by me) as part of Aparanta: The Confluence of Contemporary Art in Goa, an exploratory and eventually pathbreaking art exhibition curated with rare brilliance by Ranjit Hoskote, which did wind up having th...