IV
"Chandnem udhelam, cheddva tuge dhamp go zonelam (repeat)."
When there is a moonlight outside, why one should close her windows?
Here is why!
Until the early 1970s, most parts of Goa lived in the dark without
electricity. Whenever people wanted to visit their neighbors or go to a
posro (shop) at night, they used natural torches made out of dried coconut
leaves or carried a candle in a coconut shell. But, they did not need these
things when the moon shone brightly in the sky. During moonlit nights,
people traveled freely without worrying that they might stamp a snake and
get bitten by it or dash another person coming from the opposite direction.
In fact, people scheduled their visits to far away relatives during full
moon time. The moonlit nights meant better opportunities for boyfriends to
visit their girlfriends and for mischievous boys to make sudden entries into
houses and attack girls yes, these things happened even in the past but
not on a large scale; hence, the suggestion to Cicil in the Dulpod to close
her windows in order to avoid untoward happenings.
All of the Goan Mandos, Dekhnnis and Dulpodam are based on Goas history,
and every word/line conveys a different meaning.
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
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