Very Short Questions: Glimpses of India

Q1: What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Ans: The elders in Goa feel nostalgic about the Portuguese and, in particular, the loaves of bread and baking traditions they introduced.

Q2: How do they remember it?
Ans: They remember it fondly, recalling the sights, sounds and flavours associated with the Portuguese bakers.

Q3: What equipments do the Goan people still own there?
Ans: They still have among them the mixtures, the moulders and the time-tested furnaces, and there are still people who bake the loaves.

Q4: What are those bakers known in Goa?
Ans: Those bakers are known as 'pader' in Goa.

Q5: What does the thud and jingle of the traditional baker's bamboo indicate?
Ans: It is the signal that announces the baker's arrival in the morning.

Q6: What announces the arrival of the baker in Goa?
Ans: The specially made bamboo staff, with its distinctive thud and jingle, announces the arrival of the traditional baker.

Q7: How would the baker greet the lady of the house?
Ans: The baker would greet the lady of the house with "Good morning."

Q8: What did the children long to get from the baker?
Ans: The children longed to receive bread-bangles from the baker.

Q9: What kind of fragrance does the author still recall?
Ans: The author still recalls the typical fragrance of the baker's fresh loaves.

Q10: What kind of dress the lKabaV was?
Ans: It was a single-piece long frock reaching down to the knees.

 Q11: When did the baker collect his bills?
Ans: The baker collected his bills at the end of each month.

Q12: How were the monthly accounts of the baker recorded?
Ans: The monthly accounts were recorded on a wall in pencil.