Nostalgia road: War time tales of Mari Ners May 14, 2021, 10:17 AM IST
This happens to be the centenary year of a marine engineer. Not a celebrity, but remembered as a WWII survivor. Amirapu Ramarao, just passed out of T S Dufferin, had hardly put to sea when, while in Calcutta harbour, he was asked to replace a drunk junior engineer on board SS Malda, a merchant ship on His Majesty’s duty during the war. He was pulled out of his first ship Hatrana, then in KG Dock, and escorted by a police sergeant to Garden Reach Docks, where the ship was waiting. As he boarded Malda, it set sail, heading a convoy under Captain H M Edmondson.
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Ports Bill Gifts Goa A New âUnion Territoryâ
Nandkumar M Kamat
Goa has entered a period of planning pre-2022 assembly election strategies so not much can be expected from the government which would continue to buy time over all controversial issues, till elections for the eighth state assembly get declared. Today nobody hears anything about the most important demand made by ex MLA late Matanhy Saldanha for getting a âspecial statusâ for Goa. He was supported till March 2012 by ex CM Manohar Parrikar but he lost interest to pursue it after Saldanhaâs untimely death. Since then, we are watching a scenario which shows how Goa is rapidly losing everything it was always known for.