POSKEM

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.