Political parties controlling the Maharashtra government & BMC are working very hard to ensure their financers (builderslobby) & their votebanks (slumdwellers) in bombay get permissions for construction of luxury towers, residential housing complexes, skyscrapers, slum rehabilitation housing, etc on collector lands, textile mill lands, aarey cattle grazing lands, salt pan lands, forest lands, open spaces, reserved plots for gardens, etc……….but the original catholic villagers of bombay who have been agitating for the last 10 years for a piece of vacant government land for burial space are turned away………due to which the catholics in bombay have to manage with whatever few spaces that are left in church graveyards……most of these few spaces have been converted into temporary graveyards………and the days are not far away when the permanent graveyards may also be converted into temporary graveyards…….and the remains i.e. bones will have to be shifted into small concrete boxes near the walls of the graveyards……….and some catholics may decide to cremate/burn the remains and dispose off the ashes or bone fragments in the Arabian sea, jungles of borivali national park, powai lake, etc.
Beginning from the 18 th century the Protestant Britishers owned East India company allowed people from Gujarat, Maharashtra, etc to settle on the lands of catholics in bombay ( including salsette island )………..Ignorant & drunken catholic villagers of bombay adopted the designation EastIndians after some bandra residents spread rumours among the catholic villagers that by identifying with the name EastIndians would enable them to get priority in jobs in the East India company………….even after the EastIndia company fled in 1947…….the catholic villagers foolishly continued with the designation EastIndians………instead of adopting a new name BombayVillagers and changing the name of BEIA to BVP ( Bombay Villagers Panchayat ) since all the catholic villagers lived in the villages (gaothans) of bombay …….. except for the goan/mangalorean catholics nobody in the world knows who eastindians in bombay are……….. The marathi migrants from konkan, western maharashtra, pune, khandesh, kolhapur, satara, amravati, northen maharashtra, marathwada, solapur, nagpur, etc who dominated the bmc, police, collectorsoffices, citysurveyoffices, tradeunions, mmrda, mhada, talatis offices, tehsildars offices, politics, administrations, etc in bombay region pushed the catholic villagers of bombay towards poverty…… also now most of the catholic villages (gaothans) being included in the slum category and gaothans being included in the capital value 500 sq ft property tax system further tragedy awaits the catholic villagers of bombay...… the population of the catholic villagers of bombay ( www BOMBAYLAND.BLOGSPOT com ) which should have been around 5 lakhs is now around 2 lakhs. Christians/Catholics in India don't indulge in terrrorrist activities, antti-national activities, smuggling/underworld activities……dont indulge in cheating & corruption activities……dont indulge in arson looting rioting activities……..dont indulge in communal & fundamentalist activities……dont indulge in criminal activities……..don't indulge in encroaching openspaces mangroves collectors lands to create slums…...don't indulge in female foeticide/infanticide…….dont indulge in overpopulation activities……but in-spite of being very peaceful & law abiding citizens why do christians/catholics in India face religious persecution & discrimination ?. No Unlimited resources (land water oil gas diesel petrol kerosene cng png lpg electricity gold silver diamond coal steel iron copper aluminium wood fruits foodgrains cement iron bricks sand houses skilled/unskilled jobs etc)…….but the population in India keeps on increasing and correspondingly all these problems also keeps on increasing……. i.e. poverty, lack of housing, lack of peace, lack of education, lack of jobs or other employment, lack of hygiene, lack of sanitation medicines and health care, lack of transport, food shortage, water shortage, land shortage, growth of slums, anger, fights, beating, shouting, quarrels, crying, breaking of things, arson, rioting, communal disharmony, forced begging, forced labor, committing variety of crimes, various nefarious activities like smuggling, settling personal feuds or in creating trouble during elections, mob mentality and damage and burning of public and private property………….CORRUPTION is a universal phenomenon; but then, in India, it is a curse for its people who are already cursed with poverty, illiteracy, casteism, communal disharmony and ill-health…………Today India would have been a wealthy, prosperous & secular country if successive governments at the centre/states had strictly enforced the two child policy all over India…..and had increased legal marriageable age from 18/21 years to 25 years……..and had passed draconian laws against corruption blackmoney communalforces female foeticide/infanticide, etc…..and…..had improved infrastructure industries & job-opportunities in rural & backward districts & towns of India. The Bible does not say that if you don’t attend next weeks Sunday mass or church service or revival meeting then you have denied the Christian faith and you are worse than an infidel in Gods eyes………..the Bible says that if you have not taken care of the financial needs of your household/family then you have denied the Christian faith and you are worse than an infidel in Gods eyes………ofcourse Christians should go to the Church atleast once a week…….but why waste time hearing and bearing the repetitive rituals & sermons of the Clergy………the correct thing to do for the lay Christians is go to the church and put candles, garlands at the statues of Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, Various Saints and do a short prayer and move on. Jorge Monteiro Bombay.
