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Here are excerpts from Veerle Poupeye’s article “Memoirs: Meeting Mr Tabois,” on the work and trajectory of Jamaican artist Gaston Tabois (1924-2012). I vividly remember my first encounter with Gaston Tabois (1924-2012), at least in terms of the impression he made on me rather than for the occasion itself. It must have been in late 1984…
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IT WAS daybreak. The ship had touched the wharf. I was dressed up and ready to land, anxiously waiting to see what sort of land I was going to, and with what sort of people I had to intermingle – a strange land and a strange people, I thought.
The passports were checked and passengers allowed to land.
To my pleasant surprise there were two known faces awaiting my arrival to receive me in this new place. The two known were, Mr.T.V.Durai, the office Superintendent at that time designated as Chief Draughtsman, chief of the whole Drawing Office next to Surveyor General, and the other Mr.N.Raghavan a Malayalee who was my co-worker for some time in India.
It was a happy meeting. Soon I began to feel at home. It was already 7.30. Mr. Raghavan took me to his house where he was staying alone.
He had a servant who cooked his food etc. After exchanging pleasantries we had our breakfast. It was just time to go to the office, which we reached at about 9, AM.
TA Neelakantan Iyer joined the Lands and Surveys Department during the Chartered Company administration in 1930 and spent 33 years before returning to India upon retiring as Chief Draughtsman in 1962. He was so fond of Sabah that he even named his house in Madras, “Borneo House”