their ancestral images and by borrowing of physical material like old bills from centuryold business establishmentsin telling a story as documenters we try to be as objective as possible explains vincent in these stories particularly there are conflicting spaces because family histories are not only about family history but they involve the cultural scenario politics and religious elements we have therefore tried to tell these stories as unconflictingly as possible diaspora involves all the political histories of everywhere that the people have been and as much as the stories can be told through their own voices a picture like they say is worth a thousand words vincent and mahajan are therefore planning to set up a space for the pictorial archives and literature they have in panaji where people can view the images and literature physically and virtuallythere are so many discoveries that are very touching and sometimes absolutely shocking the same memory can be different for members of the same family vincent saysmaria fernandes meanwhile incoherently hums a tune that she had learned as a preteen while growing up in africashe turns to her middleaged son with raised eyebrows indicating to join in the goaborn man has never experienced the trauma of mass exodus like his aging mother nor does he feel the saudade of songs which were sometimes sung to him disguised as lullabies