“Down the Rabbit Hole: Research Adventures in Malawi and Goa,” was presented March 7, 2019, at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Alto Porvorim, Goa, India.
From the program:
When a talking rabbit runs by you, you have a few options: attribute the experience to an overactive imagination; or, suppose it is a vision meant for someone else; or, follow it down the rabbit hole. When fiction writer Debra Nicholson unexpectedly encounters a relatively unknown story about Goans in Malawi, Africa, she does not hesitate; she jumps.
Since 2016, her pursuit of this story has taken her from Bowling Green, Ohio, USA, to Canada, to London, to Malawi, and to Goa, and, in March of this year, she will continue on to Portugal. While in Goa she would love to meet Malawian and other East African Goans.
A trip to India in November-December 2014 so completely stunned Debra Nicholson that she vowed to return as soon as possible. Following her nearly six months’ second trip to India, from December 2015-May 2016, which included a camel safari in the Thar Desert, volunteering at the Jaipur Literature Festival, a two-month train tour around the perimeter of the country, and Bollywood dance and Hindi classes in Delhi, she continues to post on her blog, The Laughing Camel, about her adventures.