Augusto Pinto wrote:
"At least now the notion of "affdunk' or 'touchability' has thankfully
disappeared, but when I was young, meaning some 35 years ago, it was
still prevalent. It meant that there were some people whom you could
touch and drink their water and drink their tea so on without any
w
Dear Sandeep
You wrote:
"My shoe soles had given way and I wanted to ask my
maid to get them stitched by a cobbler who lives next door to her
house. My maid does not understand Hindi or English and I converse
with her strictly in Konkani. I found myself at a loss of words,
particularly in the li
Others will venture into this field only when they smell a lot of financial
opportunity. (The Gaitonde shoes experience is well known.) For the rest of
the time, they will just keep pouring scorn on people who have been doing
this useful work for centuries. And trapped into a caste-class structure
A couple of days back, I found myself in a serious predicament over a
simple problem. My shoe soles had given way and I wanted to ask my
maid to get them stitched by a cobbler who lives next door to her
house. My maid does not understand Hindi or English and I converse
with her strictly in Konkani
