What interesting reading Eric's link offers. To the many once-young Goan lads who lived in the interregnum of post- British Bombay and the creeping ghatification of the city, Bombay was the mecca of all that was good in our youth.
With the famous names mentioned in the article, we were all acquainted. Eric walked out with his medical scroll from Grant's own creation. I used to jog by the Khada Parsi statue and the Magen David Sassoon Synagogue of the Baghdad Iraqis coming back to the by lanes of Maza Gaon once a centre of Portuguese influence. Both of us but not together, undoubtedly spent many hours cutting classes to watch the fair and lissome Parsi lasses of Bai Avabai Petit and the Alexandra Girls schools at the inter-schools athletics popularly known as Tata Sports. That is when we were not spending time trying to charm the Goan, Mangalorean and East Indian beauties of Claire Road, Jesus and Mary's and Canossa convents. Lucky for them in the 1960s sowing your wild oats for good boys like us, only meant scattering them in the wind. Right Eric? Roland. Toronto. Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -----Original Message----- From: eric pinto <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:34:17 To: GOA2<[email protected]> Reply-To: eric pinto <[email protected]>, "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] Fw: The best history of Bombay of the past http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.com/2010/09/history-of-ancient-bombay-part-ii_13.html
