To Goanet - JoeGoaUK wrote: >St. Inez, Happy Kids Nursery >http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk51/6948801539/in/photostream/
Brought back so many memories! It is the only old chawl to have survived in the area. The surroundings today have the look of a concrete slum (thank you, Kamat Destroyers, for nothing). I remember the days... after dark you had to first cross the cemetery (our pace and heart rate always quickened at that location). Then you came to the fork in the road. The right limb took us home to Tadmad. The left limb took you to 'tambdi mati.' It was then a feared route (after dark), heavily wooded and deathly still. All gone now, with the slumification of St Inez/Taleigao. At any rate, a little beyond the fork was the Happy Kids Nursery School, started in the early 1970s in her (then) home by the late Mrs Kunda Chitre with active participation of her late husband Dr. Vijay Chitre, two exceptional human beings. Dr. Chitre later went on to become Head of the Biochemistry Dept at Goa Medical College. Their son Dr Vivek Chitre (my dear old childhood friend) is today in the UK and daughter Dr. Vidya Chitre teaches at Goa Dental College. There is so much of local history to be recorded (before the upstarts begin inventing their 'contributions'). r --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------