Paradox comments by Leah David. Goa 'liberated' from the shackles.... After
finding nothing in 'liberated' Goa, Goans left for the Gulf.
The new beginning was in the another country innit?
BC
In 1961, Goa had just been liberated from the shackles of colonial Portugal.
Despite the general confusion that ensued in the years following liberation, my
father recalls, there was also a feeling charged with expectancy, a renewed
confidence and a sense of a new beginning among the young men and women of the
time.
The discovery of oil had made the Persian Gulf route a profitable one and to
this end, the British India line had commissioned four modern D vessels, the
Dumra, the Dwarka, the Dara and the Daressa. These ships of 5000 gross tons and
deck passenger capacities of over 1000, plied the Basra Axis from Bombay to
Karachi, Muscat, Dubai, Bahrain, Doha and Kuwait.
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