Re: [Goanet] Meet the Ghosts of Matharpacady Past.... - Matharpacady Village

[Roland Francis]

The creator of the web page Stanislaus Baptista it seems was more intent on the 
East Indian heritage of Matharpacady rather than the heritage of Matharpacady 
itself.

A pity, considering there was a Goan contribution to it like you told us. 

Roland.


> On Jun 27, 2020, at 6:37 AM, Linken Fernandes  
> wrote:
> 
> An important omission, to my mind, in the ghosts of Matharpacady web page are 
> a mention of the eight or so Goan residential clubs and the Goan families 
> (mine being one) in the lane that I like to call Club Lane. 

[Goanet] Meet the Ghosts of Matharpacady Past.... - Matharpacady Village

[Linken Fernandes]

An important omission, to my mind, in the ghosts of Matharpacady web page
are a mention of the eight or so Goan residential clubs and the Goan
families (mine being one) in the lane that I like to call Club Lane. It is
these residences which staged those little candle-lit processions which
took a round of the village's two main lanes to hymns sung loudly in
Konkani whenever Our Lady visited. I don't know about now, but as recently
as twenty years ago there were no less than ten clubs in and around
Matharpacady. Some clubs staged tiatrs in the lane adjacent to Cross lane
and there were occasional dances and feast celebrations too. Christmas
gained that special silver-golden glow from the parade of paper stars the
clubs hung jutting out into the lane.
As for music, the loudest noise, apart from Joe Perry's bongos perhaps, may
have come from Carmo Mascarenhas in  the Arossim Club, up a flight of
stairs opposite our house. (That is, much before he took off for Canada and
his tragic death later -- about which I would appreciate some detail from
people here who may know more). Carmo may have been the first to get an
electric guitar into the village (thanks to his seafarer Dad, of course)
and rock the wooden beams and rafters in the houses in and around Club
lane. As Olinda, a fellow-tenant in 31 Matharpacady, would laugh and say,
"Carmon start kelem, rang-tang korunk!" I, of course, all ten-years-old of
me, would have already bounded up those wooden stairs to watch at close
quarters, as Carmo, with his Elvis Presley puff, strummed the strings and
crooned in an impossible-sounding, Westernised falsetto, which impressed me
no end!!


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[Goanet] Meet the Ghosts of Matharpacady Past.... - Matharpacady Village

[Roland Francis]

This is Bombay’s reply to Panjim’s Fontainhas.

An interesting history of the East Indian village that adjoins Goan Byculla. Of 
Bombay’s yore, of course.

http://www.matharpacadyvillage.com/meet-ghosts-matharpacady-past/

Roland.
Toronto.