While Dubai is working hard to create a Gunnies record for Christmas, our own India is quietly making her own record for the wonderful season.
South Mumbai’s Worli neighborhood, is home to a staggering 65 feet or nearly the height of a seven-storied building, the pine conifer has entered the record books as India’s tallest, fully decorated, natural growing Christmas tree in a tiny garden in Adarsh Nagar.
Every year, particularly during the December-January festive season, scores of people walk into gape at the gigantic tree, click pictures/selfies and leave — silent and awestruck.
“I have been tending to it for the past 45 years. Earlier, my sister Twila used to help me out. However, after her death in June 2005, I have been doing it alone,” a proud Douglas Saldanha, the owner of the Christmas tree, told. The Saldanhas’ family history is deeply entwined with that of the magnificent Christmas tree since it “joined” the down-to-earth four-member family. The family originally hails from Mangalore.
“In fact, it was my sister’s dying wish that I should decorate the Christmas tree so beautifully that she should be able to view and enjoy it from Heaven,” Saldanha said in an emotional voice. Since then, he has spared no effort or expense to ensure that Twila’s favorite Christmas tree is not only the biggest and best in Mumbai but all over India.
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