Abstract:
The article presents poetry criticism to poems of Manoharrai Sardessai including "My Songs," "The Call of Konkani," and "The Eighteenth of June." It notes the quality of the poems of Sardessai to move to the development of "Place" through the deep attachment to its landscape in Goa. It mentions that the poems unveil a definite consciousness of place in the people in exile who carry the tearful waves of the river Zuari.