Goa, June 29 -- JENIFER FERNANDES

joseph@herald-goa.com

ALDONA: In the quiet village of Santarxette in Aldona, a man sits at his humble shop, working silently with his hands-hands that have shaped leather, stitched soles, and mended lives for over seven decades.

His name is Raghoba Sataderkar, 84 years old, and still going strong as

a cobbler.

"I never went to school beyond Class I," says Raghoba with no trace of regret. "I lost my mother when I was just 9, and my father couldn't feed us. So I was put to work-not by choice, but because I had to earn for the family." But what began as a necessity turned into a passion. At just 13, he started learning the cobbler's craft-not from formal teachers or books, but by watching others who wer...