> See an old image from 'the other' Goa... > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/2642196864/ > -- > FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org > Ph +91-832-2409490 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa > http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericknoronha >
Waaaa I love this! I am nonetheless surprised that devanagari script was used on buses - so that pic is surely taken after the inv... sorry liberation ;-) (oh yes, I see, 1972... that late?) My first visit to Goa was in 1974. By hen the buses I took were still european made (Fiats I believe, there was still one plying in Diu in 1981...) and so were quite a number of cars on the road. In feel, Goa was still quite distinct from India then. I rember the post office in Panjim still having 3-language signs, Hindi, English and Portuguese. Bars in Vasco had still large murals praising Ramos-Pinto Port, which could be still be obtained (though at quite some expense) in some wine shops. O Heraldo was still in Portuguese and when I went to the museum-cum-archives (portraits of the governor-generals on display upon request), the keeper regretted the good old times of cheap sardines and rose wine. OK, this was our Lusostalgia Department)
