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Two new showrooms/office spaces, double height (135 sq m each with bath) for lease in upscale Campal/Miramar beach area, Panaji, Goa. Contact: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speaking of brotherhood and sharing of common feelings, it brings to mind the unity displayed by our Hindu community. At the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, practically every Hindu family gathers at their ancestral home every year where they pray and dine together at Mont Saibinnimchem Fest. Sometime ago, I was told by our elderly that we Christians, too, shared the same tradition in Goa i.e. families gathered at their ancestral home and prayed and dined together. But today, instead of gathering and re-uniting, we are drifting away. However, while we have forgotten or are trying to forget our culture/tradition, the Mangaloreans have upheld it and still follow it. The feast of the Nativity is one of the biggest feasts in the whole of Karnataka, especially in Mangalore. At this feast, brothers, sisters and their families, including priests and nuns, gather at their parental home or in one of the sibling's home where they re-unite, spend time and dine together. On this feast day, they prepare a dozen vegetable dishes, and, however rich one may be, everyone squats on the floor and eats. (The same goes with Konkani language - however highly educated one may be, he/she speaks Konkani.) I am sure there is much more to this celebration of tradition than what I have written. Therefore, I would appreciate it if any Mangalorean comes forward and shares his/her experiences in detail on this forum so we may follow suit and reestablish our familial connections. Thank you. Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna, Goa Mob: 9420979201 'It was really a wonderful scene of brotherhood and sharing of common feelings.....
