Mervyn Lobo has portrayed Gerrard Street in Toronto perfectly. It also reminds me of River Road and Indian Bazaar in Nairobi. Pan shops were a common site in nearly every block. Pan spitting was also common in these areas. It proves that wherever the Indian goes, his pan supari goes with him but instead to eating his pan in a civilizes manner in a civilized other country where he did not belong, he continued with his disgusting and uncouth manner spitting and defacing the walls to the disgusting Red hue which needs no painting up to a certain height. This proves that you can get the Indian out of India, but you cannot get India out of the Indian. What a shame. unfortunately, because we are the same colour, and have the same black hair, we Goans too are bunched up with this lot. ( MUHINDI).
Manuel (Eddie) Tavares.
