FN: ''But literacy was ( and still is ) regarded as the ability to sign one's name.''
Somewhere in South Salcete, there was one bhatkar who owned vast land. Though he educated his sons, he himself was an illiterate person. His educated sons apparently convinced him to undertake a daily literary activity. What all he had to do , was to practise writing his full name which would not only serve as his signature but also be in the eyes of the Portuguese officials, a literate person. To his fellow villagers, he was simply known as ''assinatura''bhatkar.
