Remembering Noronha (1916-1982), the Legendary Officer

In the collection of writings in the Penguin Book of Indian Journeys, an essay written by Dom Moraes, The Forest, it says, “Though a Civil Services Officer, Noronha, can be quietly termed as an anthropologist’’, ‘who went up Abhujmarh in 1950 and noted that elderly people and children were covered in ash, as a protection …