The women who sold us bananas would ask us to take in their children and we
did. Thanks to them I am fluent in Marathi. I hope the English contamination
has not arrived in Bassein. Every Parish Priest was a Goan sixty years ago
and my father would call it a shame. He saw them as mercenaries.I am glad there
now are native priests and two bishops. I hope the fields survive in the
community. And their homes. There used to be an available supply of priests
from Goa in Bombay to supply to Chaul. When Peter Gomes retired( he is buried
in Chorao ) the replacement could not preach in Portuguese: they rose and
protested in the church. Valerianclosed the premises and deprived them of
services for several months. Sad because they had clung to the language forfour
hundred years under British rule. They proudly called themselves Norteiros.
I do hope you make it to Papdi and Remedy and Merces.
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 01:08:31 AM EST, Aloysius D'Souza
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the invitation -- would love to accept -- except that I now
live in Goa . This will entice me to go to Mumbai and visit VassaiAloysius
On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 9:21 AM eric pinto <[email protected]> wrote:
I wonder if an East Indian place exists. Also spend a thousand or two at the
Goan, will send you the cash.
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Goan food in VASAI
https://youtu.be/CR-OZDYEoII
