Goa, July 4 -- ALBERTINA ALMEIDA

My Name is Melita Caia do Gonsalves! For those of you who recall the popular image of Amitabh Bachchan, popping out of an Easter Egg, singing the equally popular refrain of"My Name is Anthony Gonsalves, Main Dun iya Me Akela Hun", there was in real life another person ac companying the Anthony Gon salves, who ploughed a lonely furrow, in terms of the how of her life. That was Melita Caiado Gonsalves, equally enamoured by her parental family - the Caidos hailing from Merces, as she was by her husband Antho ny Gonsalves. She breathed her last aweek ago. From a hockey player to swimmer, accomplished West ern dancer, model, artist, Mel ita Caiado Gonsalves had been all. As a school girl in Nairobi, she played...