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Jorge - for starters, try a more appropriate label: you are a west coast
native. You once worshiped Mumbadevi.
The first of your cousins to slip on trousers called a convention in Bandra,
around 1880: only order of the day, a resolution that rechristened Marathi
peasants who now worshipped differently, "Bombay East Indians." It was
forwarded to Governor Duncan. May I remind you that the Padroado diocese
switched to English from Portuguese around 1930.
Catholics have progressed from Portuguese, to English to -- patois. This
cannot be labeled progress. We survive in an environnment in which store
employees ignore shoppers who do not use the vernacular, and bureaucrats are
downright rude to supplicants who do not fit the mould.
So try again: bury the soul of D'Monte, the 1880 tribal chief. Call
yourselves Mumbai Kristis, speak the language of your neighbour's hearts, and
endear yourselves to them. A Bassein native who lived in my home for eight
years left me fluent in Marathi: I do not feel sorry for myself. eric.
Look at the Jain Community whatever gold coins, diamonds, silver,
foodgrains, sugar, ghee, money, etc the wealthy jains donate to the jain
temples the caretakers of the jain temples redistribute the gold coins,
diamonds, silver, money, etc to the poor jains this way the wealth of the
jains remains within the jain community no wonder the jain community is the
richest community in India.
Some Mangalorean Konkani Catholic Associations in Bombay/Vasai are doing an
excellent job in utilizing church parish halls in providing some basic
training to those mangalorean catholic youth who are interested in becoming
IAS/IPS officers………eastindian associations which are only interested in
organizing singing competitions & food festivals should learn a few things
from the mangaloreian.
150 years back the native catholics in bombay known by the name EastIndians
( www.bombayland.blogspot.com ) possessed most of the lands in
bombay……but 90% of the eastindians were reduced to a status of backward
class because they lost all their ancestral lands in bombay to the british
raj, Indian govt, maharashtra govt, bmc, collectorsoffice, slumlords,
landmafia, righwinghindugroups, political groups, buildersmafia, mmrda,
mhada……..and due to Alcoholism, Infighting & Jealousy the 90% eastindians
have become more poor………the other 10% eastindians in bombay who were able
to save some of their lands became wealthy by selling away their lands 1980
onwards to the builders lobby…….these 10% wealthy eastindians have no
interest in helping the other 90% poor eastindians.and since
eastindians ( www.east-indians.com ) are christians it is not easy to get
jobs in bombay and since the catholic clergy have programmed the
eastindians to remain non-combative, non-ambitious, non-aggressive,
susegaad, dormant, politically inactive due to which eastindians are not in
a position to demand reservations of 5% in government jobs in bombay.
Jorge Monteiro
Bombay.
