Keywords: Roanna Gonsalves
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 July 2018
'In the Beginning Was the Word' opens with Angelina D'Costa, 'five years to the day after she stopped being a Catholic', entering a church, determined to confront a popular priest who is known to have covered up for another priest who abused children; only to be moved to submission by the familiar beauty of the Mass.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 09 May 2018
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A thread of male entitlement binds the American literary world to a shepherd's world in India's Kashmir valley. Days ago, the American author Junot Diaz left the Sydney Writers Festival amid allegations of sexual abuse. In India there is another, more sinister and tragic manifestation, woven with the use of rape as a weapon of war.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
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Vincent and I were both international students
from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived
three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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