Goa, Sept. 23 -- RADHARAO F.GRACIAS

Goa continued to live under the shadow of poverty in the first half of the last century of the last millennium; prospects of employ ment were minimal to the qualified and the unqualified. Goans escaped to India and East Africa, both under British rule. Bombay and Karachi were the first outposts, Nairobi came next. Goans who had studied at Li ceu Nacional Afonso de Albuquerque /Escola Medico Cirurgica de Goa, gained reputation as lawyers/teach ers/civil servants/doctors; those who obtained instruction in the parishes succeeded as tailors, musicians, cooks and the like. By the age of 19, Joao Pereira had completed his tailor's internship and was primed to join the exodus to Ken ya.

He selected dressmake...