IN REMINISCE

FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA, BORN IN SALIGAO (then Portuguese Goa) in 1924, was a born rebel, a disruptor. He crossed the oceans in SS Canton to England in 1949. He had many large and complicated crosses to bear. He could be both passionately cross as well as immensely funny.

My parents, who met in London, were unselfconscious Bohemians. Indeed, my mother, a Czech actress, was actually from Prague, the capital of Bohemia. They were immigrants, ‘others’ or different kinds of refugees. She had taken refuge from the Nazis, and