Former Chief Minister of Goa, Dr. Wilfred De Souza’s biography, Dr Wilfred De Souza, A Journey With An Exceptional Leader of Goa, authored by Daniel Albuquerque is being launched on Sunday, 17th May at 6pm at beautiful Sunaparanta, Althinho – Panaji which is also the venue partners for the event. Siddharth Dhanvat Shangvi will be in conversation with Dr. Wilfred De Souza, Daniel Albuquerque and Mrs. Margaret Alva.
A committee has been formed for the launch of the book Dr Wilfred De Souza, A Journey With An Exceptional Leader of Goa. The committee is headed by the Chairman Mr. Anil Counto. Members of the Committee are Mr. Narayan Bandekar, Mr. Cesar Menezes, Dr. Mrs. Pramod Salgaocar, Dr. Sydney Pinto Rosario and Mr. Jose Elmano Coelho Pereira.
Dr. Wilfred Anthony De Souza (1927) has been a prominent and exceptional politician of Goa. His political career has spanned over a period of forty years in which he has been the Chief Minister of Goa three times and for most of his political career, he has held a variety of ministerial portfolios. Dr.Willy, as he is popularly known, is a household name in Goa and in the Goan Diaspora. As a B.C. Roy Awardee, the highest honour for Medicine and Statesmanship in India, he has singlehandedly, dominated the political establishment for half a century since the Liberation of Goa from the Portuguese rule.
Daniel Albuquerque the author is a student of economics and literature; he has obtained his doctorate from the Julius Maximilan University, Wuerzburg, Germany and has been a member of Franz Brentano Forschung (Research) of the same university. He lectures at the Friedrich Schileer University, Jena, Germany. He has authored more than half a dozen books, and is a writer with the Oxford University Press for advanced education. He has been acquainted with Dr. Wilfred De Souza for the past two decades.
The protagonist in the book plays a double role: privately, as a family man with a medical profession and publicly, as a volatile and robust politician. Being a highly respected surgeon and an equally controversial politician, his life is packed with the incidents and episodes which are tied up with the real life and political existence of the people of Goa. The work has been fashioned to read like a novel, shorn of all the pretences of a biography. It is a dialogue. It is fully authentic. The dialogue is based on the actual conversation the author had with his central character. Each chapter is ensconced- in the beginning and at the end- in a thought provoking social and political environment.
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