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  Interview with Simon D’Silva   I began doing carpentry when I was just 12 years old. Traditionally, all the men in my family have been boatbuilders. My great-grandfathers also practised this profession. We have been building vallams (traditional wooden boats), houseboats, and other kinds of…
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  Interview with Antony (Boatbuilder)   I studied only till 8th standard. My father and grandfather were boatbuilders. My elder brother is also a boatbuilder. Though my father suggested that I choose some other field for a living, I was interested in this field since my childhood. I started to…
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  Interview with Anson D’Souza   My name is Anson D’Souza. My father’s name was Benny D’Souza. He was a fabricator (blacksmith), and I followed in his footsteps to become one as well. My father was in the fabrication trade for about 40 years—I worked with him for about 25 years. We owned the only…
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  Dona Beatriz was the daughter of King Manuel I (‘the fortunate’) of Portugal (1469–1521). History records that Beatriz received a beautiful gift—a wooden ship named Saint Catherine of the Mount Sinai, which was built in Kochi between 1511–13. European colonial historians have given little…
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