When Panjim and Goa faced a lockdown in 1980s
When Panjim and Goa faced a lockdown in 1980s It was a tradition among all of us reporters attached to the Press Room at Goa Secretariat in Panjim to assemble at around 9.30 am daily. Goa Secretariat was then located at the historic 16th century Adilshah Palace, the oldest structure in Panjim built on the banks of the Mandovi River. The press conferences or briefs by ministers or the senior officials at the Secretariat or press conferences at city hotels would commence at around 10 am and conclude by 12-30 pm, unless they were followed by lunch. Then we would break for lunch at home, followed by a mandatory brief siesta ( Siesta or दुपारची वामकुक्षी is not the sole monopoly of the पुणेकर alone !) and assemble back at the Secretariat press room at 4 pm. Keeping in with this schedule, that day I had boarded the Panjim bound bus near my residence in Taleigaon. As I was boarding the private city bus, the bus conductor threw the bombshell . ''सोगळे ध्यान द्या हांव कित...
