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When my older son Kaustubh got married recently in the US, Dion -my close friend Maria’s son, my sisters, and I treated the guests, mostly Americans, to a lively session of mandos and dulpods, thus providing glimpses into our rich musical heritage and culture. We Goans somehow end up incorporating mandos into every happy occasion, no matter which part of the planet we’ve made our home. Since then, over the years, I’ve heard the Konkani mando sung in the spacious salas of relatives’ houses in Goa as well as in cramped homes and wedding reception halls in Bombay where I grew up. This is my earliest memory of listening to a Goan mando. I guess the nip in the air and the soothing breezes got the grown-ups in the mood for singing for they suddenly broke into song (singing in voices – primeiro and segundo), beginning with the aptly titled Konkani mando “ Sontos bhogta re jivako” (I feel the joy of life).
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Cool breezes wafted in bringing with them the fragrances of night queen flowers and eucalyptus. The Panchgani countryside was cloaked in darkness except for a few lights from homesteads twinkling in the distance. Vera was standing on a chair and I had a protective arm around her to make sure she didn’t fall off. On the very first night, after dinner, my parents and the rest of our group were relaxing in the cosy living room of the cottage we had rented my younger sister Vera, a two-year old toddler then, and I were looking out of one of the open windows.
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It was cool and pleasant up in the hill station of Panchgani where we were spending our summer holiday in the late 1950s.