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Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Miriam Koshy Dona Paula, Tiswadi There’s a tree in my backyard, a mango tree, that goes back to the memory of another tree in Kerala. I didn’t realise why I was so attached to the tree till it fell.  There was a storm in 2021, a cyclone actually, in March […]

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Jose Lourenco Velim, Salcete Our house in Velim is about 110 years old, and a mango tree and a chikoo tree were there from almost the beginning. The mango tree was around four or five stories high, a single vertical column rising into the air with a horizontal branch, on

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Isabel Santa Rita Vas Aldona I was born in Panjim and we lived on the first floor, and all that we had in terms of a garden was about two square metres at the entrance. I left the house at ten years or so. Interesting house with a sort of

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Elizabeth Bara Panjim In 1997 I had moved from Calcutta to Goa when I was around seven years old. I was in the second standard, and it was a very different life here. Calcutta was a busy life, a community life, close together and celebrating all the festivals. When I

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Damodar Mauzo Benaulim, Salcete Can you see that chikoo tree there? It has always been part of my life. As a child, I would climb the tree and pluck ripe chikoos. If you climb the chikoo tree, you can climb onto the roof tiles from the tree. I have even

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Arti Das Panjim Quite weirdly, one of my first tree memories is of a dying tree. I grew up in Panjim city, opposite the Fidalgo hotel. Ours was a ground-plus-one house and we stayed on the first floor. Behind that was an old traditional Goan house. There was a small

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Amruta Patil Panjim I think the first tree that really stays in my memory was in Katari Bagh, Cochin. My father was serving in the Navy and we lived in a house with a lawn and trees outside. And as it is in Kerala, it was lush. Outside that house

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Anita Pinto Mapusa, Bardez I’ve always been very fond of trees. Wherever I go I am constantly looking at trees more than flowers or houses. The earliest tree I remember is a mango tree from our neighbourhood. We lived in Mahim, Bombay, where there were cottages built during the East