Om Books International along with Tamasha, Mumbai celebrated the launch of Poskem: Goans in the Shadows by Wendell Rodricks. The elegant book on Goa’s best-kept secret, was launched by Chief Guest, Lisa Ray. On the occasion author Wendell Rodricks shared his experience of putting together the book, with Lisa Ray and the gathering.
Goans are presently experiencing the last generation of Poskim—young children taken in by wealthy families and retained most often as servants. In a narrative that spans Portuguese Goa to post the liberation of India’s golden state, Poskem: Goans in the Shadows takes the reader to locales from Bombay to Lyon, Pune to Paris, and into the world of the Poskim people and Goan recipes. Through happiness and hope, despair and delusion, Rodricks writes of an unspoken, unheard of and shamefully silenced world of the last generation of a people that would soon be forgotten but for this book preserving their story for posterity.
Also present at the launch were publisher, Ajay Mago, Maria Goretti, Bachi Karkaria, Namita Devidayal, Sheetal Malhar, Shamita Singha, Zulfi Sayed, Sathya Saran.
