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Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Sandhya Yadav Chorao island We used to live in a rented house in Madel waddo in Chorao, and behind it there was a very old and huge Imli tree. The house was not big. It was just a room, about 10×12 feet and the tree was adjoining the rear wall,

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Architect PV Raikar Orlim, Salcete When I think of trees, the thing that comes to mind first is when I was in third-fourth standard. The lifestyle was—go to school, come back for lunch around one-thirty, have lunch, do your studies till about four o’clock and then go out to play

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