Sunday, May 17, 2020
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
DAHLIA @ MUSIC TOGETHER
My daughter Dahlia
will be performing live
on Instagram
on May 17 at 7 pm EST.
Check it out!
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Early Morning Greeting Down by the Village Well
'DEU BORO DIS DHiUM'
(Konkani)
English Translation: Good Morning
I remember when I was very young, the village community well near our house did not have a pulley and it had been difficult to draw water, but in later years, it was much easier – fun, exuberance and pleasure combined. This had been possible after two laterite posts were constructed, with a wooden beam across them and a pulley system installed over the well, through labour and money contributed by those who used water from the well.
In Goa, the most common and memorable, classic and timeless, first greeting of the early morning in Konkani : ‘Deu Boro Dis Dhium’ (Lit. trans: May God give you a good day or Good Morning) were the first words of the day that were said to one’s neighbours, who also came to fetch water......down by the village well.
Some of the good old days of yore have now given way to overhead tanks, municipal water pipelines and electric water-pumps providing the village folks with tap water, in addition to the benefit and ease of sprinkling their gardens with rubber hose pipes.
Saturday, May 02, 2020
Picturesque Goa Framed
Recent watercolour paintings framed today.
Size: 16”x13”.
Picturesque Goa.
By Tony Fernandes.
Friday, May 01, 2020
Fishing Boat at Baga, Bardez, Goa
Back in the days of my childhood in the 1960’s, Baga, a beach town in state of Goa, India, was one of my favourite places that I visited with my grandma on her annual 8-day sojourn, staying in a rented place near the sea. It lies 2 km north of Calangute, popular with tourists and locals alike with a coastline of pristine golden-brown sands and the meandering and scenic Baga Creek, summed up in the excerpt below from my book ‘GOA - Memories of my Homeland’ (Poems & Stories).
Grandma's annual dip
In the Arabian Seas
For her aging knees
She thought was good indeed;
She took me along on a trip
To a idyllic place called Baga
On the eight o'clock "Carreira".
Dotted along Goa’s scenic beaches, boats fitted with an outrigger was a common sight, but nowadays motorboats are used. Fisher folk live along the coastline and cast their nets on a regular basis. Many families combine their efforts in going out to sea and a whole community helps in pulling in the nets. A familiar sight at times is strolling tourists lending a helping hand. All this and much much more in my new illustrated line-art book with descriptions, namely ‘A Line in Time’.
BAGA BEACH - Line-Art/Water Colours Drawing by Tony Fernandes. Size 12” x 9”.