Adim tarvotti tarvachi viaj marun aile mhonnttoch .....[Niallunk]

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Adim tarvotti mama -avoicho bhav; vo bapaicho bhav-titiv; vo mavxecho ghov-uncle; tarvachi viaj marun aile mhonnttoch tangelea lagxilea soireani, poilim tanchea ghora vochun bhett diunk zai asli. Ho ek kaido nhoi aslo ponn oxem ek nattem (relationship) adim cholltalem. Bhonink kedna kai tarvotti bhavacher dixtt ghalunk distalem zalear bhav, bhoinichea ieneank ravtalo. Adlea mon'xam sovem oput somzuch ani maia vostali ti aichea kallar disona.



Ponn atam? Tarvar, Gulfant, Londonant, vo Amerikent savn tum kedna sutt'ten ghora pavlo to, tujea soireank nhoi mhonn tujea xezareank khobor asona. Adim, ek mhoino fuddench ganvant dhas poddtali konn, khoimchea vaddeantlo tarvotti pavta poi to. Choddan chodd hi khobor ganvantlea sorea pompar vochpi mon'xank melltali. Tum Goeam pavchea adinch tujea nanv tablam tornamentachea ollir (list-ar) astalem. Ani zori tor tum, tuji tank pompar bhorpi zalear thoimsor 'truuk' (ek kardamcho khell) tujo time pass korunk gavantle khellkoddi ravtale.

Atamchea kallar sorea bar-amcher bhett korinant tosleanchi khobor gheunk mat, ghora koden panch vo so klubachea mon'xancho zomo pavta.

Donparchea vellar ganvchea klubache vangddi tujea ghorant gustele. Tannim tuka Aitarachea Misar, igorjent polelolo. Tuje adle ixtt te. Adim tum ankvar astana tanchea bharim astalo. Logn zatokoch tujea home minister-an (vach-bailen) tuka zaito sudrailo, dhekunuch tum adim heddttalo toso atam heddona. Aileo-poileo khobro kaddlea uprant tuka thoddoso pomp martale ani loje kama khatir duty free shop-ar thavn haddleli Black Label whisky tum ugoddtolo ani whisky ghonttanam tonddan ghalunk kaim badam-pista kaddtolo.

Tuje, don peg zale mhonnttoch tannim achi-tachi tokhnnai korchi ani tatunt tukai uklun dovortele. Shri Ximbro Goeant ailelea pavtti klubak donation dita ani Shrimati Fidelina-n ghele khepek stage ani sound proskrut (sponsor) korunk sat hozar rupia dile mhonn tujea kanar saddoitat. Tum tin ankdde choddoun dha hozar rupianim don songit pongodd free beat show-ak ube korta. Ughoddleli Black Label sompoilea ani tuvem bhasailelem gheun tujea bhuzar hat marit "thank you" mhonnon gheleat.

Arre bap re! Mhoji survat zali eke vixaicher ani hanv xirkovlom dusreach vicharancher. Hanv sangunk soddtalom atam konnui pordesant sakun ailo zalear tannem aplea khudd bhoinichea, bhavache vo soireanchea khobrek vechem poddta. Protek ghorant TV-cher serial cholltolean nhoi fokot soirim, xezarim ponn ghorantloch lok eka-mekhachi khobor gheun visorla mhollear fott zavnchina. Tujea soireank bhett divnk dislem tor tanchea ghora vetana tujea hantan borixi pezad pottli asleruch tuka motto ievkar melltta na tor durlokx (careless) kelo mhonn sozmuchem.

Ponn kaim monis prani toxi asona. Tankam aplea kuttumbachea vo ixtt-mitrancho, soireancho mog ani husko asta. Tantli mhoji ek, vhoddlea bhavachi dhuv. Tika gavantuch logn kel'li kori ponn bakericho dhondo cholltolean tancho rabito Vasku xarant zalolo. Logn zalea uprant chear vorsanim tika ek babulo zolmololo ani hanv sutt'tean Goeam pavlo mhonn aikonam fuddem aplea dhaktea porak hanvem pollevncho mhonn mudd'dom amchea ghora aileli tea vellar mhaka kolit kelem, tannim don kuddachem flat ghetlam ani Vasku xharant hanv pavon sorlo tor tanchea novea flat-ak bhett diunk vinoilem.

Kaim ghorze kama khatiruch mhaka Vasco vochunk poddlelem. Mhojem kam' sompoilea uprant tinnem dilolea pott'ttear vochun bildinga sokoll motor thamboili. Motorintlo dhevun lift-tin bhitor soron tisre mozlacho (floor-acho) butanv dhamlo. Bara ankddeachea daracher 'Jack-Daisy' oxo toktto aslo. Sarkhi topasnni kortoch ghant'ticho butanv dhamblo.

Dar sovkas ugttem zalem. Darar, gagro nhesun ek moddlea piraechi bail ubhi. Bhavache dhuven sanglelem, ek vhoili (Andra Pradesh) nokranni tinger kamank asa mhonn.


"Tumi konnank soddtat?", tinnem luan vicharlem. Tichem vicharop mhaka ekdom pottlem. Hindinlean, vhoddilank respetan mhonnttat 'App'. Ti ek on-Goenkarn (non-Goan) asunui Konknni xud'dh uloileli aikon anik ek panch vorsani amchea bhagarachea Goeant konn khoro Goenkar tem ollkunk moskil zatelem. Devak argham, tanchea nhesnacho pattern mat Goeamkar ostoream sarkelo mottvo zaunk nant. Atam mhaka khobor na ti aple madamik vo mhoje bhavache dhuvek kitem mhonnon ulo korta ti. Choddan chodd 'bai' hea utran ulo kortat mhonnttoch hanvem tichea thaim vicharlem

"Bai na?"

Tichea tonddacho rong bodollo. Tinnem tokli soklla ghatli ani paimchim don panvlam fattim gheun dar bond korunk vetali.

"Excuse me, hanvem tujea thaim vicharlam bai na?"

Hanv ek kholnaik (villain) zall'le bhaxen tinnem ragist motte dolle korun bhitorle tiddken mhonnttlem

"Adim oi, atam na. 'Baina' asleleank adlea Mhukel Montrean Ribanddar pattovleant. Mhoji 'bakarn' ani 'patrao' ghorant nant",

Ani rostin, tinnem dar bond kelem.


Lino B. Dourado
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Endings and Beginnings - A poem by Brian Mendonca

Endings and Beginnings

Fog over the riverways.
A brash new cell phone tower
looms on the terrace next door.
A koita* hacks away at a coconut tree
Tarvotti* gathers his produce.
A bluefinch perches on the gulmohar tree
Two crows neck nearby.
A siren in the distance
The roar of an aircraft shatters daybreak.
The beginning of the week
The end of the year.


koita: (konkani) axe
Tarvotti: Goan shippie

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Tarvotti ani Konkani bhas

Adlea Vorsamnim

Goeant Konknni ful'li. Survatek, Brohmi lipi Konknni borovpant vapuddpant aili punn magir ticho vapor zalona ani Devnagri lipik vatt ugtti keli. Ti dhormik gorzank ani dispott'ttea jivitant vapuddpant ietali.

Her Somaz

Her zomaz aplea vangdda apleo Konknni bhaxecheo pottbhaso ghevn aile. Rotnagiriche ani Bhatkalche Konknni musolman tanchea orbi tarvotti ani thollavea ontor dhormanchea kazaranim ani Hinduchea Islamant dhormantora vorvim aile.Dusre stholantor zavpi Ethiopiache zhuzpi tarvotti Siddi asle zannim Konknni apnnaili.

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Gõyche nivrut zal'le tarvotti apnnak bospogar mellchem mhonn ulo martat

Asolna: Gõyche nivrut zal’le tarvotti apnnak bospogar mellchem mhonn ulo martat. Agostache 23ver Aitaradis Asolna ganvant tarvotteanchi boska zali, tea vellar tannim apleo oddchonneo dakoileot ani apnnak pensanv vo bospogar mellosor te zhuztolet mhonn tannim khorayen sanglem.

Tarvotteancheo ghorkarnni ani tarvotti ekach asrea khal pensanv gheupak vavurtole mhonnlem. National Union of Seafarers of India hachea adlea Adari Chitnis Urselino Almeidak ulovop korun margdorxonn diunk apoil’lo.

Tannem aplem ulovp kelem ani sorkara koddchem pensanv nivrut zal’lea tarvotteank mellunk zobor avghodd mhonnlem, ponn tarvotteanche nidhintlean diunk zatolem mhonn sanglem.


Tarvotteanchea pensanvam vixim International Transport Workers Federation, Prodhan Montrik, Arthik Montri ani Gõychea tegam-i Khasdarank chitti boroun adar magcho mhonn bosken nirnnoi ghetla.

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Tarvotti xezari ...... [Niallunk]

SON'VARACHIM SUNGTTAM

GõYKARANK KIDD LAGLEA!

-Jose Salvador Fernandes


Gõy. Gõycho ek ganv. Tea ganvantlo vaddo. Teach vaddleantle dog-ui xezari. Eklo tis vorsancho Dusro sovis vorsancho.

Pirayen vhoddlo aslolo tornnato tin vorsam fattim thavn botticher nokri korta. Sumracheaxea ud'dear. Sovis vorsancho tornnato, botticher nokri korpachim sopnam sopneta.

Jinnechem tisvem voros sarpi tornnato, poilim Gõychea Gõyant ek-anki nattkam borovn sador kortalo. Tantum tor Gõykaramni, koxe apleach Gõykar bhavank adar-mozot korchi, ani tantuntlean koxi Gõykarmni 'Gõykar' mhunn 'identity' rakhchi, hem machier ugddapem kortalo. Punn fuddem machier taka vevsai korpacho naslo dekhun, tannem potta-pannie khatir tarvacho rosto dhorlo.

Gel'le khepek to anik ek viaj marun ghora portolo. Tea xezari bejar tornnatean, tachem boreponn dhorlem. Tacho ixtt zalo. 'Ixtt' mhunnon, tarvotti xezarean tache koddlean, bhitorlim-bhailim ghorchim aplim khup kamam korun ghetlim. Ani ek dis 'vollkhin zata tem duddvamni zavchem na' oxem ievjit bekar xezarean apleach khatir tache kodden utor ghalem, apleak-ui botticher nokri mellpa khatir.

'Ieta tea sumanant mhaka kocherint apoila. 'Vacancy' aslear, tuje khatir koxem-i korun utor ghaltanch.'

Hi zap aikun bekar xezareachea jivak matxe 'su' zalem.

Xezari Mumboi vochun ailo. Xezari ixttan 'vacancy'-che axen chovkoxi keli tednam, taka 'na ek-ui 'vacancy' na,' oxi zap mevli.

Kaim mhoineamni uprant, xezari tarvotti porot viajik vochpachi toyari korunk lagta. Tednam to bekar tornnato xezari apunn-ui tache vangdda Mumboi vochpak raji zata. Apleak, aplea xezari ixttan botticher dhaddpi konn-ui odhikareachi vollokh korun divche khatir. Ani to tachea vangdda Mumboi gelo.

Mumboichea kuddant tannim vosti keli. Ganvcho kudd mhonntoch, ganvche khubxe zonn. Mhonntoch, ganvche khubxe zonn kuddant ravpi-ievpi mevle. Bekar tornnato tanche modem hansunk-khellunk-ulovnk laglo tednam, taka konnem Mumboi ievpa fattlem karonn vicharlem. Xezari tarvotteachea boreponnan 'ambeacher' fator boslo zalear boslo mhunnon apunn ailoleachi khobor tannem tanchea kanar ghali. Ani tantuntlea ek-don zannamni taka ek sot ugtem kelem: "Fattim tuzo to xezari Mumboi ailolo. To botticher jea 'departmentant'-ant nokri korta tantum eka 'helper'-achea 'post'-ak ek 'vacany' asli. Te 'vacancy' khatir to monis sodunk ailolo. Tea zagea khatir taka monis eklo meulo-i. Kerollacho."

Aplea pottak bhukecho churko aila astona-i apleak, aplea xezari tarvottean koso upaxi dovorlo, hachem taka mottench vaitt dislem.

'Goans are loving, warm-hearted, helpful...' adi. oslea gunnamni Gõykaranchem voronnon kel'lem ami aikolam. Khorem mhollear, aiz Gõykar 'Gõykar' uronk na. Eka kallar mona-kallzan sado-sudo aslolo Gõykar aiz monan-kallzan nitoll uronk na. Tachem mon kuslam. Tachem kalliz 'Gõykar'-achem uronk na.

Aiz Gõykar dusreank - Gõyam bhaileank - boreponn dakounk, tankam jikhun ghevnk vavurtat. Punn apleach Gõykar bhav-bhoinnak payam tolla mostitat. Aiz ek Gõykar dusrea Gõykarachem boreponn ievjina. Titlench nhoi, tor taka aplo sangati Gõykar aplea poros unch, aplea poros don duddvamni bhorlolo taka naka. Aplo Gõykar sangati jinnent tor kitle-i koxtt kaddun voir sorpachi khottpott korta zalear, vankddea monache Gõykar tanchea paimak dhorun oddunk mat-ui fattim ravonant.

Aiz tor Gõychea Gõyant Gõykarancho sobhav tellit zalear, Gõykaramni 'charity begins at home' hi gozal konnxak marlea. Gõykarak aplea sangati Gõykarachem boreponn ievzop mhollearuch vaitt dista. Tech khair Gõykarmni apleach Gõykarponn pisddun uddoilam.

Gõykar aiz svarthi zala. Apleponn soddun jiyevpi Gõykar oso svarthiponnachea zallant koso sampoddlo tench somzona. Gõykar svarthi dekhun, dusrea Gõykarachem boreponn zal'lem pollevn, tachea pottant chabunk lagta. Aplea svarthak lagon, dusrea Gõykarachem nisonnton ani padd korunk, matui addkhollona. Gõychea Gõykaram modem khub gunn asat. Khub torechi kola asa. Ani osleach gunnank, kolek ani boreponnak lagon, Gõykaramni aple viprit toren purai sonvsarbhor, Gõyak borich namna mellun ghetloli. Punn aiz hea soglleacher choddxi bondi poddloli dista. Hachem fattlem ekuch ek karonn zaum-ie: 'Sonvsarant borem kitem-i korun voir sorche boldek, Gõykar aiz ekamekache, konnuch voir sorcho nhoi mhonn paim oddit bosleat.

Aiz Gõykarachea sobhavak kidd laglea kidd dusreanchem padd ghalchi. Kidd dusreanchem ghott'ttonn, korpachi. Kidd apleach svarthachi.


2/8/2008
(c) Prof. Jose Salvador Fernandes
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Costa Santan, the life and times af an able-bodied Goan Tarvotti

Costa Santan, the life and times af an able-bodied Goan Tarvotti
By Selma Carvalho elisabeth_car@yahoo.com

September 16, 2008 7:56:07 PM

I have a theory that if you separate the Goan from the sea, he'll wither away. All of our history ebbs and flows with that vast, undulating expanse of blue water. One does not look at the sea with tired eyes but always with hope and anticipation.

Sometime in the late 1800s, able-bodied Costa Santan, embarked on a career at sea, which at one point had him working on a ship listed as the 'Wartern'. Possibly in his twenties, and through the help of a 'Ghat Sarhang' as they were called in Bombay, he landed a job in the merchant navy.

To his family in Goa, Santan was a 'tarvotti', a term believed to come from the Konkani-Sanskrit word, taranti meaning boat, but to the British that employed him, he would have been a 'lascar'.

I found Santan, at the National Archives in the UK. What makes his journey fascinating is that seamen like him who sailed on ships of the English East India Company, some as early as the sixteen hundreds, were amongst the first Goans in the diaspora overseas. What was life like, for these early tarvottis? Read On

Santan's ship docked at London port. It was winter and he was not keeping well. Weary, perhaps suffering from malaria, cholera, yellow fever, or any number of accidents that likely befell seamen, possibly he made his way to a sailor-town around the docks. Hilton Docker (1809) a medical doctor to the lascars wrote, "The natives of India who come to this country are mostly of bad constitutions. Numbers are landed sick from the ships, where they have been ill."

Some of the original houses still line-up shoulder to shoulder, on either side of narrow alleys criss-crossing through Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse. Walking through these alleys, Santan, would have watched as Chinese men smoked opium in the dark lodgings known as 'joints', foreign-smelling food hung from the rafters, soliciting prostitutes scoured the streets and lascars, mostly from Bengal, milled about peddling knickknacks to keep body and soul together.

Mortality rates from disease, venereal amongst them, were high. Conditions were so wretched that it caused an outcry in Victorian England. In 1857, the Strangers Home for Asiatic Seamen was built on West India Dock Road, to assist with boarding. Even then, as late as 1920, Health Inspectors condemned the "godown", used by P&O liners to house their sailors while docked.

In a world of perfect racial inequality, Santan was engaged because he cost much less than an English seamen. A 1901 census puts the wages for British seaman between UKP3 to UKP4 pounds per journey, while an Indian might be paid between 15 to 20 rupees, which was just about 14 shillings. (In those times, 20 shillings made a pound).

Onboard, Santan Costa had been a steward attached to the ship's saloon, Topaz. Clifford Pereira, noted British-Goan, Historical Geographer, tells me that "Goans were rarely employed below deck. They were almost always engaged either as cooks or stewards."

English Captains developed a liking for Goan cooks, who had no restrictions for handling pork, beef or fish. Pereira has also uncovered evidence of Goans cooks being paid higher wages than their Indian and African counterparts on East India vessels in the eighteenth century.

In 1957, Captain Baillie of a P&O liner wrote, "I have never failed to appreciate the cleanliness, discipline and comfort of our ships in which the deck hands are Lascars and the stewards mostly Goanese."

But life at sea was hard, and the ship was often a jutting splinter of racial discord amongst crew members. English seamen called Indians, "coolies" and saw them as servile, obsequious and "damned useless in cold weather". To the English sailor, the poorly paid Indian seafarer was a threat to his own livelihood.

Beatings were common on-board ships. A Sebastian Dias who was hired in June 1915 died of a heart-attack just eight months later, while at sea. And a Joaquim Souza, who was engaged on-board the Baron Balfour, in 1914, committed suicide nine months into the voyage.

Despite the inequities, Pereira says, Goans might have enjoyed a fair amount of privilege, perhaps on account of being Christian. An article which appeared on the Port of London Authority (PLA) Monthly of December 1957, had this to say about Goan seamen:

"The Roman Catholic Goanese have an 'altar peak,' with its own small altar, aboard every ship in which they serve. During the voyage. if there is no priest on board, they choose one of their own number to conduct the prayers."

And another paragraph reads:

"The Goans are more clannish and less inclined to shore excursions. When two or three ships that
carry these nationals are in the Port together, a play or a concert may sometimes be produced by the Goans on board one of the vessels."

Michael Fisher writes in Counterflows to Colonialism, of bonds that developed with fellow Indian seafarers, mostly Muslims, "the binding force of the harsh voyage produced strong solidarities with evidence of cooperation in religious ceremonies."

Although religious restrictions largely prevented Hindu Brahmin Goans from embarking on a career at sea, I find a record of a Dinkar Nadkarni, born in 1900, who was employed on-board the SS Rizwani, as medical officer. There were also Konkani-speaking Moslems from Ratnagiri on board British ships. A Jainoo Ebraim, from Ratnagiri set sail on the Worsley Hall, in 1914.

Did Santan return to Goa or did he think of staying on in England and making a new life for himself? We certainly know that many Bengalis and Sikhs stayed on in England, later applying for Peddlers' Certificates which would allow them to peddle whatever they carried from the ships, which at times
included their bedding.

My mother recalls, that wives would sometimes lose their husbands to the sea. A Coutinho C, from the 'Nova Conquesta' who sailed on-board the Okara, drowned in 1914 at the tender age of 20.

Many women were left widowed during World War II; Pereira contends as many as 700 Goa sailors died, but being abandoned by a tarvotti husband was not common. Clifford Pereira, nonetheless, has found records of small bands of Goan tarvottis who settled in the port-towns of England. These became the first Goan immigrants to the UK.

I like to think Santan wanted to return home to Goa, to the loving arms of a wife and family. He might have colluded with a Goan cook on-board and put aside salted and cured meats which he would take as presents for his family. A small token for the lonely lives the sea and separation wrought upon them.

Sadly, we know, Santan Costa died on 5 January, 1915, at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, London.

Acknowledgements:
* National Archives, Kew, Richmond, UK.
* Clifford Pereira, British Goan, Historical Geographer cliffjpereira@hotmail.com

Courtesy: http://www.goanvoice.ca/2008/issue20/peopleplacesthings.htm

SALUZINHO D'COSTA (Chinchinim) - ek tarvotti ani tiatrist

SALUZINHO D'COSTA

Chinchonnecho ek tarvotti ani hurbevont tiatrist. Ostorecheo parti tech porim kunnbeacheo parti korpak to chodd huxear aslo.


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