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I am really proud of these Non-Christian Tiatrists of Goa. I want to add
Shrirang Narvenkar from Mapusa to the list..
How these non-Christian artistes change their accents and give out such
great performances that it is almost impossible to recognize them as
non-Christians.
Way back when I first saw the acting of the then youthful, slim, beautiful
and sexy Goan Tiatrist Roshan (I didnt know her name then) on stage, I was
really quite impressed with her. So after the show backstage, I asked Prince
Jacob who that beautiful heroine was? And Jacob said Dont you know
Roshan? I was completely flabberghasted. Roshan was a fantastic actress.
But someone made a mistake here on the list.
Mike Mehta is not a Hindu. He is a Christian like Prem Kumar. By the way
Shali Baii from Shempia Miguels lokam-khell group is not a Hindu. He is
a Christian toddy-tapper hailing from Paroda. But Shali Baii looked very
cute and more beautiful than any village beauty, just like the late
Christopher(grand-son of Cuncolim and of Chris-Meena fame), with whom many
men danced thinking s/he was a girl. So dont add Shai Baii too.
Mike Mehta is Goas criminal lawyer and his original name is Michael
Rodrigues. I knew him in Guardian Angel High School in Sanvordem and he was
one year junior to me. He never spoke Konkani and acted in English school
plays and he had come down from Bombay and lived in Sanvordem. So I was
surprised when I found out he was acting in Konkani Tiatro later. I met him
once in Bombay where he was in Law College.
That reminds me, I met another boy from Sanvordem in Bombay once. He was
living at Avelinos , next door to the boarding. So when I asked him in
Konkani where he lived in Bombay, he replied in English Chandanwaddy. Then
I asked him what kind of job he did. He said Temporwaddy. I had enough and
said goodbye to him and went to have some Taddy near our Club.
More about Guardian Angel High School, which I guess now is a College.
Mathany Saldanha was 2 years junior to me and was always speaking English
and his gait was like that of a proud Bhattkar, always looking down on
everybody. So I was very much surprised that later he was heavily involved
with the Fishermens Union or Ramponnkar. How people change?. You
couldnt get one word out of him at school. I guess we were not in his
league then. I guess he wont remember me, but you can tell him I was the
Bauji or "Babuji" at boarding school and I was the one who was constantly
being caught speaking Konkani and Fr. Gervasio Pinto punished me a few times
and I had to kneel down on the stony ground in front of all girl students
walking by in front of our Boarding school at 8 am. Kosli loz re baba. Oh
those were the days.
The other noteworthy scholarly student and my classmate was Pramila
Fernandes, who later became a teacher at the same school and married the
world renowned Indian scientist Dr. Norman Lewis from Khar, Mumbai, who
later died unfortunately soon after. Norman was a fine gentleman and his
mansion at Khar covered almost two blocks.
Oh yea, I cannot forget Tiatrist Remmie Colaco from Sanvordem who used to
play with us on the School soccer ground and his wife was a teacher at our
School.
And who can forget characters like BOBKO, KETKAR from our school? And
those boarding boys would always pick locks of my trunk and steal eat all my
goodies brought by my mom. whenever she visited me, I guess they had their
CIDs everywhere. And those bugs (bikunn) from our cots would fill any blood
bank in North America. In hot Summer, when water was scarce, those kids
would come and steal water from our buckets or tambio at night. And those
Bombay boys from the boarding, used to escape on the sly at night to spend
time with their girlfriends and others would go for a Hindi movie in a
Cinema Theatre strangely Called Niagara and I didnt even know what or
where Niagara was then. But of course later I learnt about Canada in a
geography book by Sohan Lal, just like that famous Grammar book by Wren
and Martin. . I even bought a copy to Canada as these Canadians dont know
their Grammar and there is no better book than Wren and Martin, right
mhatreamno? .
I wish I could see the faces of all my schoolmates now? Te/Tim Khoim assat
kai?
Silviano Barbosa
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