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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 13:28:04 +0530
The Goan clubs at Dhobi Talao’s Jer Mahal have been around for over a
century, but now their crumbling rooms face the threat of demolition,
finds Radhika Raj
Praxis Remedios pulls out one coin after another out of thin air and
then makes them disappear within a blink of an eye. His black jacket and
a magician hat hang from a rusty hook on a chipped room wall. Above it
lies a broken wooden board that says Guirim Club. Remedios is one of the
residents of a Goan club at Jer Mahal in Dhobi Talao. “These clubs are
boarding houses for people from Goa,” he explains. “Every village has
club for its residents here. It is a mini-Goa in Mumbai.” Remedios has
been living in his club for over twenty years, but still has a difficult
time explaining his address. “If I tell people in the city of our club,
they ask if there is a swimming pool there,” he smiles.
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