Archbishops & Bishops of all 166 dioceses (of which 129 are Latin, 29 are Syro-Malabar and 8 are Syro-Malankara) in India in the next few days will issue statements wishing Hindus a happy Diwali..…………but during Christmas season NO Hindu religious leaders (Shankaracharyas, Maharishis, Sadhus, etc) in India issue statements wishing Christians a happy Christmas................here in bombay there is a archbishop who never takes part in catholic rallies that are organized by lay catholics against the anti-catholic policies of the state & bmc…………..but since the priority of the Archbishops Bishops Cardinals Parishpriests is not of improving the health wealth housing jobs land-holdings & security of the lay catholics due to which it would not be correct to expect Archbishop Oswald Gracias to take part in catholic rallies…………….The population of native catholics of bombay (foolishly known by the name eastindians) which should have been around 7 or 8 Lakhs is now around 2 to 3 lakhs…………in the last 200 years the natives of bombay have suffered multiple economic & housing problems….……..problems which began from the early 18th century when the protestant britishers allowed people from the Gujarat & Maharashtra region to settle on the lands of catholics in bombay……………..instead of collaborating with the Portuguese who were in Goa to supply weapons to carry out an armed struggle against the Britishers some catholics from bandra in 1887 decided to baptize the native catholics of bombay with the name eastindians in honour of the east india company owned by the britishers……………since majority of native catholics of bombay were ignorant & drunken people they blindly accepted the designation eastindians…......after 1947 the correct thing to do was to discard the name eastindian and adopt the new name bombaikars or bombayites or bombayvillagers..….but since the native catholics were ignorant & drunken people they continued with the designation eastindians……..except for the goans/mangaloreans nobody in the world knows who eastindians in bombay are…………the marathi migrants in bombay think that the eastindians are outsiders like the northindians & southindians……………the marathi migrants because of their brute majority have been able to change the history geography culture of bombay.
In order to divert the attention of catholic activists who have been agitating against the draconian property tax regime the BMC has come up with the demolition of crosses agenda the first target being crosses in bandra………….…there is a strong communal group controlling the BMC which wants to uproot Catholic villages & crosses all over bombay……………..that communal group stopped bothering Muslims in bombay from march-1993 after some muslims with the help of Pakistan Army & ISI retaliated with bombs………….that communal group form 1993 onwards also turned a blind eye to the FSI violations in construction of bigger & taller mosques even in areas where there was no open space around the mosques……………ofcourse indulging in terrorism to achieve goals is not the agenda of catholics………………we prefer the civic social citizen rti activism. Catholic villagers farmers tribals fisherfolks of bombay (known by the name eastindians) became poor because …….all their agricultural lands forestlands ponds wells saltpanlands lakes mangroves bullocks horses vegetable fields was grabbed by the british govt Indian govt maharashtra govt bmc collectorsoffice mhada mmrda illegal-migrants landencroachers slumlords landmafia buildersmafia slumdwellers right wing hindu groups……………AND………….the genetic problems of alcoholism & infighting……..AND……the obsession with the unhealthy and unhygienic bakery maida pavs…….…..AND……lack of interest in education & sports………….AND…………lack of interest in working towards becoming ias ips irs ifs officers doctors engineers architects shopkeepers traders etc……….AND…….lack of interest in agitating for 5 percent quota in govt jobs, police jobs, bank jobs, muncipality, railway jobs and other central/state govt undertakings & public sector undertakings operating in the bombay region.........AND........lack of interest in abandoing the designation eastindians and adopting the new designation bombaikars. Germany & Japan are very wealthy countries but since they don’t possess long range ballistic missiles & atomic/nuclear weapons due to which their military looks weaker………………..In India a lot of credit is given to freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi for Indias independence………but the fact is after hitlers forces & japanese forces severely crippled the military hardware & manpower of the protestant britishers during the second world war….the british were no more in a position to crush the freedom struggle in their colonial possessions…….and just 2 years after the end of second world war the british fled from India and other countries………………after the British fled from India the new rulers carried forward the policies of the british raj including the policy of grabbing lands of farmers tribals fisherfolks through the draconian 1894 Land Acquisition Act. There are no unlimited resources ( land gas oil freshwater coal steel cement gold wood diamonds iron bauxite aluminium uranium thorium bricks copper plutonium diesel kerosene petrol cng png lpg jobs houses onions sugar fruits foodgrains etc)……….so no chance of peace in this world……….because of two reasons……….the population keeps increasing and the wants & needs of human beings keeps on increasing................Today India would have been a wealthy & secular country……if successive governments at the centre and states had improved infrastructure industries job-opportunities in rural & backward districts of India…..AND….had strictly enforced two child policy all over India……….AND…….had passed stringent laws against corruption blackmoney female foeticide/infanticide/embryocide…….AND…….had improved water & electricity supply.....AND.…had dismantled all communal & casteist groups and passed stringent laws against divisive politicians & their hired goons. The Bible does not say that if you don’t attend next weeks Sunday Mass then you have denied the Christian faith and you are worse than an infidel in God’s eyes…………………..the Bible says that if you have not taken care of the financial needs of your family then you have denied the christian faith and you are worse than an infidel in God’s eyes……………..ofcourse Christians need to go to Church but why waste time in the boring and repetitive sermons and rituals of the Clergy…………..putting garlands or lighting candle and performing a short 5 minutes prayer in the Church any day of the week is what lay Christians should be doing........the Church is a place of God....and in order to maintain the sanctity of the church....some women who come to the church wearing short or vulgar clothes should not be allowed inside the church.....only those have worn full lenght & sober clothes should be allowed. Jorge Monteiro Bombay.