In the editorial "Religion and recreation” (Parsiana, January 7-20, 2025), the editor rekindled my childhood memory of Udvada when he recalled that "children and adults loitered on the beach, swam in the shallows, collected sea shells, maneuvered between the rocks when the tide was low.”
The popular hotels sent their rattling seven-seater jalopies to the railway station to pick up their respective guests, with multiple families being collectively rumbled over rough roads, and finally deposited at the destination. There was no electricity in Udvada then, and I was awestruck by a refrigerator running on kerosene in the hotel’s kitchen.
Today — when......