In the 1950s Saligao had four medical doctors and one self-proclaimed naturopath who called himself a doctor. All the medical doctors wrote out prescriptions that were to be meticulously formulated by the ‘compounder’ at the pharmacy in Cotula. Bur Dr Mario, the naturopath, would just measure out a length of the root from his cloth pouch and cut notches on it to prescribe the dosage! . . . → Read More: Saligao’s respected doctors and compounders
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by Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas In the old days, church bells ruled everyday life in the village of Saligao as in other parts of Goa. They announced marriages, births and deaths. Labourers woke up to the Angelus bells at dawn to start their daily chores. At the midday Angelus bell, they stopped their work to have a . . . → Read More: Of church bells and lights by Mel D’Souza When the Portuguese set out on their mission to convert the local population in Goa to Christianity in the sixteenth century, they offered first class citizenship to the converts. My ancestors in Goa had the choice of retaining their Hindu religion or becoming Catholic. Although their attachment to . . . → Read More: Saligao nicknames |
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