A quizmaster’s adore for her birthright has led to a birth of an online clan of enthusiasts by weekly quizzes that applaud a community’s dialect
Kitchen equipment during a Kaka Baptista East Indian Museum. Pic Courtesy /MGP
It would be unfit to sense today’s Mumbai by looking into a story of only one culture; either it emerged from a strange land or staid on it to call it home. And while a opposite cultures are distinguished today, some have been regenerated and others seem to be mislaid or not popularly known.
Candida Remedios, an East Indian (EI) proprietor of Vikhroli, introduces her enlightenment by a chapter — East Indian Marathi. Community members have prolonged directed during preserving it by festivals, events, environment adult a Kaka Baptista East Indian museum and their final large bid — edition a East Indian chapter to English denunciation compendium (see pic) in 2019. Remedios worked on a compendium as a plan coordinator, and armed with a endless believe of a dialect, she motionless to do something fun with it. Taking a evidence from International Mother Language Day on Feb 21, 2020, she conducted an East Indian chapter ask on her Instagram hoop only for family. Receiving superb response, she continued with a idea, and now, over dual years later, a 31-year-old business archivist has combined a village of people from several backgrounds who balance in each Sunday for her quiz.
Lugra is a normal East Indian saree
She records how a quizzes deliver a singular partial of a city to Mumbaikars who aren’t EIs, piquing their interest. Considering a chapter consists of base disproportion borrowed from Marathi, Portuguese, Konkani and Hindi, Remedios says, “Anyone with a operative believe of Hindi or Marathi should be means to answer a questions in my quiz. In fact, from research, I’ve beheld Urdu disproportion trickling into a dialect, too.”
At a same time, she has perceived feedback on some quizzes being too tough to crack. This could be attributed to a chapter being mostly undocumented and now limited to comparison generations or EI hamlets called gaothans. There’s also a disproportion in pronunciations as one moves from a eastern to a western suburbs, Remedios informs us.
Sago and honeyed potato kheer called chaais
With this in mind, she shares a value that an audio beam or compendium would add. “We don’t have a script. And if you’re unknown with a dialect, disproportion with a nasal sound finale in ‘r’, are created with ‘m’. There’s a good possibility a uninformed pronounce a ‘m’ when it’s not needed.”
Over a years, Remedios has played with formats accessible on Instagram and experimented with opposite themes like EI Portuguese surnames, professions, ingredients, and quintessential things found in households. She’s even translated English film titles. The Mummy Returns in a dialect, she says, is a hilariously phrased ‘Aais Parat Aili’. A hide look into her arriving ask — it’s going to be all about cocktail music, she says. Imagine translating a songs, we wish it that approach or Sexy eyes.
Christmas konswad or honeyed platter
Remedios’ deep-dive into a enlightenment started in college when perplexing to explain what an East Indian is doing on a West seashore of India and that EIs are, in fact, a village creatively from Mumbai. “It’s really critical we constraint and request all tools of a enlightenment before it is lost,” she concludes.
From a quizmaster
1. If we’re streamer to Bhoiwara, that plcae are we referring to?
Andheri
Parel
Byculla
Candida Remedios
2. They call me Shera. What is my name?
Sarah
Sierra
Saira
3. Sweet rice vermicelli is called…
Letri
Shev
Patoli
4. we stay in Vandarkarin. You might also call it…
Wankhede
Vangari
Bandra
5. Pickle is also called…
Achaar
Loncha
Ambut
Answers
1. Parel, 2. Sarah, 3. Letri 4. Bandra, 5. Loncha
Log on to: @can.dee.duh
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