Mumbai's *The Current Weekly* ran a centrespread on the Siddharth shooting shortly after the incident. The edition sold record numbers and reprints (of the centrespread only) had to be repeatedly rushed to Goa -- partly because the issue was purchased in bulk and made to vanish from Dabolim itself and partly because the few copies that escaped the unofficial censor were sold at a huge premium in the *black market* -- a la hit cinema tickets of the time.
As for facts of the case, and many unanswered questions that the CURRENT story highlighted, I would leave it to Patrick Michael (with *The Navhind Times* in the 1970s) to comment. Patrick worked on the story more than anyone else. Regards, v On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:12 AM, JoeGoaUk <joego...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Red and Black dance traditionally held on last day of Carnival i.e. Tueday. > > When Sanjay Gandhi died in an air crash, I think we heard of similar > controversies too. > > FN Said., > Isn't the Red-and-Black dance is held prior to Carnival. For a fact, I know > that Siddharth was due to go as the chief guest to the Ciba Giegy staff > dance, organised at the Clube Nacional itself (not the red-and-black > dance). As for the shooting, if I recall right, there was a lot of > speculation here in those times over what exactly caused it. Maybe some > journalist who was in service then, like Valmiki Faleiro, would know. FN > > On 24 August 2012 14:54, JoeGoaUk <joegoauk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >I always wanted to know about this young man who died very young.. >The > moment we talked about Leena Chandarwarkar, it always reminded >me of > Dayanand Bandodkar son to whom she married (later she >married to Kishor > Kumar) >Thanks to Prajal /NT > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextra4/7849811980/sizes/h/in/photostream/