Yeah, Roland, Sashtti has bite to it. Met a guy from Calangute in Hyderabad some 20 odd years ago and he was all in awe of the Sashtticars in his bank back in Porvorim or Panjim. It seems they brooked no nonsense, and told it like it is! Capostade, as you are aware, is the Konkani form of the Portuguese 'capacidade'. One often heard "Capas!", for instance, not too long ago, when someone approved of someone's cleverness or, sadly, to show glee at another someone's misfortune! But now with the cohort which came of age in the 1950s slowly disappearing, one doesn't hear it as much. My favourite Sashttiism, though, is "contre-parte", delivered quite casually, but stingingly, by Prince Jacob in his Panvdde ages ago. This is one tiatr I won't forget too soon, not just for the occasional, vintage Sashtti, but for a delectable Coincao, who I couldn't take my eyes off the whole time, and my wife noticed but she didn't mind because she's a tiatr buff. What remains etched in the memory is this chaddish fellow spouting hi-flown, hybrid Konkani rather too melodramatically and I couldn't stand him, and he came onto the stage for a new scene and Coincao and another woman burst out laughing and went into hysterics for over two minutes, because the guy had his fly wide open!! It took a while for the scene to resume, but every time she was on stage thereafter, Coincao had to turn her face away from the audience and, upper body jiggling uncontrollably, try to get a grip on herself!
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