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Dahanu days

Apart from comparing chikoo rates, cricket was the favorite sport in this once green paradise
Katy Rustom

Dahanu evokes thoughts of chikoo wadis and sweet toddy and long walks along the casuarina stretches on the beach. It also holds childhood memories of many Irani Zoroastrians who have since left and moved to greener pastures and newer lands across the oceans. These Iranis will always have stories to tell about this small coastal town 120 km to the north of Bombay.  Holidays during our childhood days were always spent in Dahanu — our world began and ended there. It contained the sum total of our joys and maybe that’s why we could not look or even think of life......



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