Arre Pandu, Lampiao to Lampiao sodanch urtolo, kednach sudhorcho na. When you say, "Kanak shempddi gaili" do you have to be a shempddekar? In areas of North Goa, Shempddekar has caste connotiations. If so then the big irmao Admin Noronha is going to put you under moderation for promoting casteist trends in a secular network. Do be kind enough to mail me off list about the exact implications of the term.
By the way, the discussion has veered of track from the original subject line. To bring things into proper perspective, I have been reading Selma's book which impressed me no end. Selma gets credit for the painstaking research that she has done to bring out the book. It has an easy to read style and it will be worth preserving as a monument to Goans of past days. Fred irmao in his turn as the motivating factor has done very well and Broadway in its turn has presented an elegant book. At this point I would also like to share a story of one of my aunts. This aunt was well known in Mombasa/ Nairobi circles as she was the only lady to play rummy daily in the Mombasa G I with a group of men and hold her own. She was a kind of institution in Mombasa. She was stranded in Goa during the last war and her husband was in Mombasa. As she had a strong desire to join hubby, and there was no ship available from Bombay to Mombasa because of the German U boats and E boats, she decided to board an Arab Dhow with a group of five or six women. She travelled by this dhow from Bombay to Mombasa, a long and testing journey. To say the least, the conditions were primitive. Toilets were non existent. What the dhow had was just a box slung over the side with a gaping hole in the lower plank. So these intrepid ladies devised a plan, they would collectively surround the area of the deck where the toilet box was after darkness had set in and do the needful one by one in turn. One can imagine the conditions. The tossing of the dhow, the food consisting of sweet potatoes, rationed brackish water, etc. But these ladies made it. The other ladies on board were mostly Gujeratis. Many such stories about Goans abound. Selma has pioneered a book outlining the achievements, trials, and tribulations of Goans. Great work Selma. Can we look forward to a sequel? -- Tony de Sa. tonydesa at gmail dot com M : +91 9975 162 897 Ph. : +91 832 2470 148 ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Now available in Toronto, a few copies of *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. Contact Bosco D'Mello bo...@goanet.org (416) 803-7264 http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/