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Thanks to a Goanetter who filled me in with the following details:
- A. L . Dias was a Poona product, of the same St.
Vincents school that has produced so many prominent
Goans.
- He was the only brother of the famous Dr. Aloysious
(Aloo) Dias, whose clinic was a landmark on Main
Street and who treated generation after generation of
Poona children.
- He was (as far as I can tell) only the second Goan
to enter the ICS, that most prestigious Raj
institution, and remained a senior administrator under
Nehru and particularly Indira Gandhi. Under the
latter, he was Food Minister (at the time one of
India's most prestigious appointments).
- Appropriately, he married the famously attractive
Joan Vaz who was the daughter of the only previous
Goan ICS officer. ICS Vaz and his daughter have
Saligao roots -- their family left Donvaddo sometime in
the mid 1800's.
- Dias had four daughters. The oldest is married to
Peter (Lynn) Sinai, another Goan who starred in the
civil service exams -- he stood first in the IFS exams
and was a Rhodes scholar and then was Indian
ambassador in a number of countries. Another married
into Tara Ali Baig's family. Yet another married a
grandson of the famous Goan artist ("the Indian
Rembrandt") Antonio Xavier Trindade.
- One of Dias's nieces (via a sister) is Victor
Menezes's mother and the wife of the late Manuel Menezes.
