Re: Is the March over? (Rohits posting)

["Ravi Menon" <>]

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Birth, life and death. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Coincidence? 
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Rohit

The image most mumbaikars have of the Goan is what Rohit described
"more confined to the jobs of barmen, secretaries, band musicians, cooks and 
into tourist industry. These days they have diversified into various 
professions, something they learned from their Hindu compatriots in 50 years 
which they could not from their Portugese masters in 500 years."

But tragically this is a rather blinkered view of the Goan community at 
large and of Goan women in particular. It would be akin to saying that the 
Gujrathi's are all the ppl who sit on the low stool updating the "chopda" 
all day long.
In Goa I doubt very much that you will be able to draw parallels between 
Hindus and Christians and more importantly I doubt you will be able to infer 
what one learnt from the other, the two communities being very similar right 
down to the "Sosegaad" attitudes.

First of all The Goan of Bombay is no comparison to the Goan of Goa, they 
are two different "species".

On Goan women chartered accountants, I can assure you that there are more 
than two chartered accountants! The very simple reason
being that I happen to know them personally. One of them is the daughter of 
a friend of mine, who incidentally is
head of the department of History in a suburban college in Bombay. Both of 
these chartered accountants had role models of
other Goan ladies who were chartered accountants in their own families.

Eminent Goans in Bombay I can quote are Mario the cartoonist whose work 
features in Times publications. Sylvester Da Cunha of
DaCunha advertising who started the Amul ad campaign and also a front runner 
of the Bombay theater scene (Do I hear Bharat Dabholkar? Bharat is an 
employee who headed teh campaign started by Sylvester or so my information 
goes).
The late Dr Ernest Borges for many years Director of Tata Cancer after whom 
the road in front of the hospital is named is a Goan from near Mapsa. His 
daughter Dr Anita Borges incidentally is the current head of Surgical 
Pathology at the Tata Cancer hospital.

Frank Moraes for many years the Editor of The Indian Express and 
acknowledged by many to be the best Newspaper writer India ever produced and 
his son Dom Moraes. What of Charles Correa India's greatest architect? or 
Remo Fernandes?

What u see in Bombay is usually third or fourth generation Goan transplanted 
here and mainly located in places like Dhobi Talao, Mazagoan, Byculla and 
the like. They generally have a  minimal education dictated by economic 
situation more than anything else and found work on ocean going liners as 
cooks stewards and the like.

Regards

Ravi

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