The Flickering tube ..

Down the memory lane ...

Yesterday evening was yet another 'mumbai evening' for me.. the only difference was that memories of my childhood were playing hide and seek with me .. memories about different places and people. All in the wonderful village called saligao. I've lived in different places , but saligao still remains 'home' to my soul . I remember the saligao of the 80's , 'Padmanab building' where we lived for a while .. abreo waddo, our house.
Lourdes convent high school where i did my primary schooling. The streams in which we would play all evening. Ashlie , Lester, Coralann , Winston Sandhya and Rashmi .
some of my earliest memories date back somewhere in 1982-83 . I can clearly remember the saligao morning. The misty air .. the fragrance of saligao .. a mixture of burning wood,grass and wet soil. i'm standing in the balcony looking down at dilips shop. People walking down on the road.
Whenever i think of childhood, saligao and its people fill my thoughts . Whenever i feel like rediscovering myself , i come down to saligao to my home . and sit amidst the seemingly timeless banyan vines at my home and wander away into my past .. Wherever destiny may take me, I will come back time and again to my roots .. my home at saligao.

posted by Blizzard of Oz @ 6:26:00 PM 1 comments