THE SONY PORTABLE TRANSISTOR RADIO
The first portable transistor radio at our small village at Cumbiem Morod in Guirim, Bardez, Goa, was similar to the one in the picture above. It belonged to the household of Paul Monteiro, the well-known photographer and one of the seniorsat Cumbiem Morod in the late 1950's. His son Gabriel Monteiro took extremely good care of it. It even had its own especially tailored cloth case to protect it from collecting dust!
Every Sunday morning after the Mass, some folks and neighbours gathered to listen to a very popular Konkani Program called 'Honibaili Vasri', broadcast by Emisora de Goa, Panjim. Sometimes, we went to their house in the evenings to listen to the Konkani Song Request Program and English Program of Radio Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
This Sony portable radio had a special and dedicated place reserved for it in the corner of the 'sopo' (Konkani: bench or seat) of their 'balcao' where it was tuned and it's aerial adjusted in the right orientation for optimum reception. It provided entertainment during my childhood, and pastime during the rainy monsoon evenings. Those were the days. Memories that I still cherish.
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