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Volume 1 - Issue 1
East Indian Organisations
took leadership in this
fght against the Govern-
ments illegal land acqui-
sition and various indige-
nous tribes came together
and supported the cause.
Church Parishes from
all over Bombay, Uttan,
Vasai etc. brought in bus
loads of supporters and
parishioners.
Fr. Austin Norris Pre-
senting the Memo-
randum to Shri.
Munaf Hakim, Chair-
man - Maharashtra
State Minorities Com-
mission on injustices
faced by the indigenous
communities. Activist
Dolphy Dsouza seen in
the center, is a close as-
sociate of Mr. Hakim.
More agitations to follow. Picture Abhi Baki Hai - Nicholas Almeida [Watchdog Foundation]
... contd. on page 6
Father Austin Nor-
ris - Parish Priest St.
Anthonys Church
Malwani Malad,
and SOUL - Save
Our Land members
did a great job by
organizing this suc-
cessful protest rally.
More than 10,000
people attended this
rally, next time One
Lakh will attend.
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his so called development
where only tall buildings are
made for a select few builders
and sold to the elite or rich is mak-
ing our motherland lose its natural
resources in the from of Birds, Wild
animals, Rivers, green cover and
most importantly our mangroves also
known locally as Tiwar / Kandel.
We are all aware that the spar-
row is an international bird travelled
to our lands with the help of boats in
the past. Bulbuls are indigenous, and
one hardly hears their sweet sounds
of chirping on the gooseberry trees.
In the migrant illegal Nirvana Soci-
ety in Mahim, they illegally cut trees
of the indigenous people living there
through treachery and using the po-
lice. They even cut the Umbhar tree
that is sacred. The Bulbuls would nest
in the gooseberry trees on the indig-
enous peoples land. The sounds were
so refreshing and kept the indigenous
connected to nature beautifully, but
this Migrant illegal society poisoned
and cut the trees which was the natural
habitat of the Red Crest Bulbul. The
complaint is with the BMC wonder if
they will ever do anything about it,
one of the indigenous residents told
us. This destructive nature of migrants
who are out to destroy our natural hab-
itat for their shallow comforts must
stop immediately through our own
efforts and strong collective action.
A number of sparrows is on
the decline, and we know this because
that distinctive and consistent chirp
that was audible years ago has slowly
lessened, if not disappeared. It was
World Sparrow Day March 20. This
day was kept aside to conserve the
Sparrow population.
Our leopards have been killed
by these same migrants who have cut
our forests and have built illegal hous-
ing societies on forest land. The corrupt
courts have also legalized those colo-
nies. Our wild animals have no where
to go but after these same migrants,
hence we hear of leopard attacks etc.
Instead of stopping cutting forests and
building housing settlements for mi-
grants, the administration continues
to use violent criminal means to stop
activists who are indigenous and who
are fghting for our motherland. This
administration must be dissolved with
immediate effect and the Indigenous
must take charge of conserving their
natural habitat. The indigenous leop-
ard is the most amazing hunter in the
world, but is reduced to dogs chasing
them away from their own mother-
land. This is the same plight of the In-
digenous people - they are being driv-
en out by people of lesser quality who
wear migrant religious symbols as a
show of authority. When we say Mi-
grant we mean all those who are not
indigenous to the seven islands. Those
from beyond the Ghats and from other
states. They will live here and destroy
our natural habitat and once the en-
vironment is destroyed they will go
back to their hometowns and live and
probably destroy that area too, judg-
ing by their nature. Our trees are ours
and whether to cut or remove or re-
plant them is not the authority of the
courts or the Migrants decisions, but a
collective decisions of the indigenous
peoples. We all must stand together to
protect our wild life and Trees.
The Indigenous must protect our natural habitat and all wildlife therein,
Migrant Government and encroaching migrants cannot be trusted.
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38 + acres of mangroves at
Charkop, Kandivli (West), ad-
joining the Manori Creek, are
under threat. For the past two months,
reclamation, encroachments and bon-
fres near sector 8 of Charkop village
are slowly eating into the rich reserve
of mangroves.Incidents of unidentifed
men starting fres near the mangroves
have increased. Encroachments usu-
ally come up late in the night or on a
holiday when it is diffcult to get hold
of the offender, said Mili Shetty, a
resident of Sai Siddhi building whose
home faces the mangroves. Last Fri-
day, I saw the mangroves on fre and
informed the fre brigade. In fact, on
February 21, the Charkop police fled
a frst information report (FIR) against
Karthik Shetty, a garage owner in the
area. According to the police, Shetty
had built an eatery stall and erected
a shed made of asbestos sheets 50
metres from the mangroves.
The CRZ-I rule bans any de-
velopment within 100 metres of eco-
logically sensitive areas such as man-
groves, marine parks, and national
parks. We booked Shetty under En-
vironment Protection Act, 1986. He
is yet to be arrested, said Vasant De-
varkar, senior inspector, Charkop po-
lice station. The Police themselves are
involved in this criminal activity of
destroying mangroves, hence no ac-
tion has been taken against the culprits.
The high court order earlier
this week [March, 2014] calling for a
total ban on construction on wetlands
is a victory for the environmentalists
who fought the case and a testimony to
the courts sensitivity towards the en-
vironment, the green crusaders pointed
out that it is also a damning indictment
of the governments failure to protect
Mumbais vanishing wetlands. Accord-
ing to environmentalists, the police and
local authorities have also failed to pro-
tect those who have risked life and limb
to fght for Mumbais wetlands.
If the government machinery had
worked towards protecting wetlands,
environmentalists say there would have
been no need for them to petition the
court. Instead, departments in charge
of wetland conservation have turned a
blind eye to rampant construction and
the police have routinely sided with
builders instead of conservationists.
Mr. Rossi Dsouza and Mr.
Royston Gudinho, Indigenous from Go-
rai who also work with MGP [Mobai
Gaothan Panchayat], have taken up
the issue of Mangroves very seriously.
Recently they saved acres of Mangroves
that were denied sea water by crimi-
nals blocking the path of the sea water
heading to the mangroves. On seeing
this crime, the dynamic duo quickly
took matters into their own hands and
removed the obstacles put there by the
builder and cleared the path for the sea
water to reach the thirsty mangroves.
The Mangroves in Gorai were saved
by the proactive efforts of Mr. Rossi
and Mr. Royston. They are also going
to get the other local citizens involved
in this activity of protecting Mangroves
all over Gorai, Uttan, Dharavi etc. We
need to preserve our Main source of
Oxygen said Royston confdently.
The residents of Dharavi too
are coming together on this issue to
save the precious Mangrove tree.
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By Luke Mendes
Environment
A koli practising his livelihood by
fshing around Mangroves.
Destroyed Mangroves to accommodate migrant
housing. The Corrupt only consumes but the
Mangroves give us Oxygen and a livelihood.
HIGH COURT BAN BRINGS RELIEF, IMPORTANCE OF WETLANDS
Mangroves is our Main
source of Oxygen, We need
to preserve it. - Royston
Dsouza, Gorai resident.
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Only Dr. Ambedkars iconography stands the test of time.
I
n Hyderabad, there is a small
shrine to the Fathers of the Na-
tion. Inside a shallow cupola
was a sculpture of Jawaharlal Nehru
and Mahatma Gandhi, based upon
a famous photograph of both men
from the 1940s. In that photo Nehru
was sitting close to Gandhi and both
men were smiling at each other. If
one looks closer one would fnd that
someone had taken a hammer and
chisel to the piece and removed the
prominent Kashmiri nose of Pandit
Nehru, rendering his handsome face to
that of a leper. Gandhijis mouth was
smeared with faeces / Human Shit.
In the 1960s and 70s. Stat-
ues of these men were everywhere to
be seen, often with garlands of fresh
gladiolas around their necks. This
version of the Fathers of Independent
India would have been unimaginable
a few decades ago. Not everyone
agreed with Nehrus politics or Gan-
dhis philosophy, but no one openly
disrespected them for what they had
done to achieve freedom. The de-
faced statutes in Hyderabad were not
unique. In Chennai, a mural depicting
some of the great heroes of Indepen-
dence included an image of K Kam-
raj, the Gandhi of the South. Like
Gandhi, he was a social reformer, a
politician and a bania. And like the
Mahatma he invoked humanitarian
ideas as a way to fght untouchability.
In the mural, Kamrajs mouth is also
stained with shit. A defaced poster of
Kamraj, Nehru and Gandhi, Chennai.
Dr. Ambedkar never ceased
sparring with Gandhi and his pater-
nalistic approach to Dalit liberation.
In every painting, sculpture, paint-
ing or poster of Babasaheb weve
noticed the glasses are emphasised.
As if the artists were reassuring all
those around that the great man was
keeping an eye on his people. And
warning all those who would per-
petuate atrocities against them. At
every chowk, in every gali, and along
every main road in India, his amaz-
ing spectacles bear witness and keep
vigil. Babasaheb, it seems to me, has
replaced Bapuji as the Father of India.
His face, full of protection and hope,
has superseded the once laughing, but
now night-soiled face of Mahatma.
When one compares the lega-
cies of the two men, Ambedkars is
arguably the more robust of the two.
Gandhis great achievement of Inde-
pendence is now taken for granted.
Ambedkars vision, sharp-
ened through his wonderful spherical
rims, of Tribals, Dalits, OBCs doing
it for themselves, of breaking loose
of the mainstream political parties, of
dictating their own terms, of electing
their own leaders, not those chosen
for them by non-Dalits, of choosing
their own religion and not putting up
with being pushed out of Hindu tem-
ples, is a vibrant and growing reality
in modern India. Love them or loathe
them, Kanshi Ram and Mayawati,
have done more to change the face of
Indian politics than the hacks of the
Congress or Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Dr. Ambedkars statue in a Dalit housing colony in
Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu standing tall and proud.
Nehrus nose broken and Gandhis face
is smeared with shit in Hyderabad. The
People have lost faith in these icons.
Babasahebs Iconic glass-
es. Keeping an eye out for
all.
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Ms. Dominica Dabre, Activist from
Harith Vasai
Justice Mr. Hosbet Suresh, Retd.
Judge of the Bombay High Court
Mr. Vivian Dsouza, President Bom-
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Church Malwani.
...Contd on page 7
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Mr. Nicholas Almeida - WatchDog
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Alphi Dsouza - CEO Mobai
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Iconic
Msgr. Francis Correa
P
ani adle; gao nadle is a well-
known Marathi saying which
aptly applies to the village of
Uttan. The village was abandoned by
quite a few residents due to the lack
of ground- water. Till recently they
left the village and settled down in the
city and suburbs of Bombay for bet-
ter prospects. No water was visible
in the ground; but the villagers made
it amply visible in their character.
Therefore in the colloquial language
they say gavat nai pani pun navat hai
pani. The village lacked water but
the villagers revealed through their
grit and determination that they were
second to none. In the fnal analysis,
they proved to be better in character
and achievements than the others.
On the same lines, there was
another village named Chikli in the
township of Ratnagiri. The villagers
of that village too had left the village
and had taken shelter in Pune and
Mumbai. They too, by their frm deter-
mination, revealed their true character
of patriotism and social commitment.
Two well-built characters from Uttan
and Chikli, later came to be known as
Kaka Baptista and Keshav Gangadhar
Tilak respec-
tively, met on
the banks of the
river Thames
while they stud-
ied in London.
It is this coming
together that en-
riched them as
well as the the
Kokan Coast.
Both came to
Cambridge be-
cause they not
only wanted to
master the lan-
guage but they wanted to know what
it was in this country that was master-
ing the whole world to such an extent
that their empire came to be known a
dominion on which the sun never sets.
They wanted to know how
come such a tiny nation could control
a major portion of the world and they
wanted to imbibe the spirit that was
controlling all the educational systems
of the world. While they were there
they came to know that this empire was
not homogenous but heterogeneous.


...Contd. on Page 11
Magnificent Memorial : A Must
Kaka Baptista
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T
he Tone of the whole rally was
simply - RESIST Injustices !
Right from Fr. Fraiser Mascharen-
has to all the speakers, there was a
thundering outcry for fghting against
corruption in the Government and in
the whole system. The language of
choice was Mobaims indigenous lan-
guage which is Kokni or East Indian
and English with a few speakers from
Vasai, not well versed with the indig-
enous language chose to speak in Sar-
varkari - Brahminical Marathi. They
havent yet broken off from their Hin-
du Peshawar lal/kali topi yoke. Ms.
Dominica Dabre from Vasai spoke in
Marathi and she was fery, the rest of
the speakers who were non-indigenous
offered the indigenous people present
of full support in their fght against
unjust land acquisition by the BMC
and the government both of whom
are mere puppets of the Builder lobby.
Why cant the Congress, BJP,
SS, SP, MNS etc. develop their own
home states and house the migrant
populations there? Why do they have
to take the indigenous lands for their
vested interests while our people bare-
ly have a roof over their heads. To even
repair indigenous houses we have to
beg the migrants from over the ghats
who rule us, for repair permissions.
Our people dont have jobs and cannot
sustain or provide for their families.
Nicholas Almeida, In-
digenous / East Indian from Sa-
har village Andheri east, was the
most fery in his speech, giving the
BMC a ftting response through the
blaring loud speakers that could
be heard right up to VT station.
He reminded the audience of Kaka
Baptistas contribution to the nation.
Yet they neglect the indigenous of the
land. His closing statement was we
are not going to sit quietly, picture
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. Bandra Kurla Complex: An
Environmental Disaster
Bandra Kurla Complex was de-
veloped by MMRDA in early 90s
as the commercial centre for the
growth of corporate offces and
commercial activities. BKC has
been developed over 730 acres of
land including the area that earlier
constituted the basin of the Mithi
river. The complex was built on
mangrove marshes that surround
the mouth of the Mithi river near
the Mahim bay. Construction
rubble from Mumbai was used to
fll the marshes and a shiny new
business zone rose in almost re-
cord time to compete with south
Mumbais Nariman Point. . As a
result, the mouth of the Mithi has
constricted to a third of its original
width. BKC has been built mostly
on reclaimed Mithi wetland and by
destroying mangrove jungle.
The reclamation of 730 acres of
land was done ignoring the recom-
mendations of the K.G. Paranjape
Committee of 1987; Dr. Kulkarni
Report done for the Central Insti-
tute of Fisheries 1992; The Man-
grove Committee of 1993 ; NEERI
Report 1994 & 96 ; BNHS Report
for the MOEF . Warnings against
reclamation have been loud, clear
and repeated but were ignored and
overlooked. Today the complex
hosts huge premises spread over
lakhs of square feet, which house
leading fnancial institutions like
ICICI, IDBI, UTI, Citibank and
shopping malls
It is not a surprise that it has been
termed as criminal engineering.
The G Block of the complex has
directly suppressed Mithi River,
changed its course of fow and
led to destruction of mangroves.
About 250 acres out of the total of
730 acres of wetland with jungle
that have been reclaimed fall in
the G-Block of the Bandra Kurla
complex. Though this was a bla-
tant violation of CRZ91 Notifca-
tion. The International Finance
and Business Centre(IFBC) and
surrounding buildings, that form
a part of the G-Block of the Ban-
dra Kurla complex, have been
built on the original course of the
Mithi River and were part of the
intertodal zone. IFBC is house to
National Stock Exchange, Finan-
cial Institutions and Banks such
as ICICI, IL&FS, UTI, NABARD,
Laxmi Finance, Dena Bank, State
Bank of India, CITI BANK, Bank
of Baroda and Bank of India.
In the E-Block of the Bandra
Kurla Complex the M.M.R.D A.
(Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Illegal SEZ in BKC is Biggest Scam
by Government of Maharashtra.
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Development Authority) has built
its head offce on the course of the
Mithi River.
A study byNational Environmental
Engineering Research Institute in
1996 concluded that MMRDA by
developing BKC has put the re-
gions ecological wealth towards
the path of irreversible ecological
damage and the reclamation of
wetlands and mangrove swapms
in Mithi river estuary would in-
crease the fooding potential in the
region.
While, the MMRDA through
Mithi River Development Project
Authority has been carrying out
reckless demolitions of slums in
and around the Kurla area under
the pretext of removing encroach-
ments, it itself is single handly
responsible for encroaching over
Mithi river and destruction of
Mangroves spread across hundreds
of acres of marshy area. Slums all
across the city have been demol-
ished in the name of they being in
the areas falling under CRZ area,
BKC today stands illegally violat-
ing the CRZ notifcations and thus
exemplifying the two sets of laws,
one for the infuential and other for
the poor.
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Who will fle a PIL on the Maharashtra Government for
the foods and lives lost during the 2005 foods ???
Who will make those responsible
pay ???
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As Indigenous Are we being Governed or
Enslaved????
W
hen we protest in-
justices, the govern-
ment puts cases on us -
cases of Sedition being handed out so
easily at the drop of a hat, while min-
isters and their relatives who are in-
volved in terrorist activities are given
mild sentences. Our tribals who resist
the illegal land acquisitions are put in
prisons and even killed there for pro-
testing land grab by the government
who sells it to corporations to exploit
for its natural resources. This land
grab not only uproots the Indigenous
communities but also send in armed
forces to fght for corporations in the
name of national security. This policy
of land grab and uprooting of the In-
digenous communities is nothing but
a scam to make money, its pure greed.
They use religion as their tool to
achieve their goals. The Uttan dump-
ing ground issue is one example where
the Indigenous [East Indians] protest-
ed against the dumping of garbage on
their fertile lands. The Chief Minister
from the Congress Party ensured cases
were put on Priests, nuns and the vil-
lagers who were protesting peacefully.
False cases of rioting were put on the
indigenous community. The dumping
of garbage on fertile land continues to
this date. This nefarious plan to dump
garbage and then reclaim the fertile
lands of the indigenous only to house
illegal Bangladeshis and Non- indig-
enous on Indigenous land is calling
for trouble in the near future for the
government as well as for the nations
security. The Governments ploy is ex-
posed, they put in aggressive commu-
nities on indigenous lands, they think
the indigenous will be afraid and
allow the destruction of their moth-
erland to happen. But sadly these
shallow migrant governments do not
know that wars were fought for the
motherland in the past. It will take a
tipping point to give the government
the fruits of their labor. That tipping
point is nearing. Impatience is seep-
ing in.
So we come to the question,
As Indigenous, are we being gov-
erned of enslaved? We cannot wait
to fnd out the obvious, we must act
and act right now. We must use allies,
tribes who are facing similar issues
and alienation, we must join hands
and fght as one cohesive body shunt-
ing caste, religion and creed aside. We
must use our skills and take back our
freedom and way of life. We must take
back our Motherland.
To Be Empowered you Must Be
Informed !
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T
HE land and other facilities
are frstly taken away by the
government and declaring
the koliwadas as slums, govern-
ment has taken a huge step to even
take away their daily bread, fsh-
ing. Fishing is the main occupation
among the Koli community in and
around Mumbai. A lot of families
are totally dependent on the fsh-
ing business which works on large
as well as small scale. Fisher folks
both men and women get up early
morning and visit the whole sale
fsh market to start their day some
use their private mode of transport
some have their sharing transport
( according to a particular village)
while some use the public mode
of transport this whole sale mar-
ket located at masjid (is the hub of
all sea food) fsh is been purchased
and sold thus even the 5 star and
the 7 star hotel purchase their sea
food from here normally the hours
of getting fresh fsh is early morn-
ing hours folks from uttan,manori,
arnala, vasai,dhanu,versova and
other minor parts of Mumbai trav-
el so far for the business A news
that has come which says that this
whole sale market is no more go-
ing to exist in town (reason given
is that its not good for the ambi-
ance of the locality and one more
thing which has come up that some
mega structure is taking place in-
stead of that market) the market is
going to shift to kanjur marg which
is towards the central line no one
knows the exact location for this
market ? fsher folks say what if
the market is towards the high way
side we would be spending more
every day for our travelling ex-
pense if it is not close by station .
some say it would be diffcult for
us to come from vasai,arnala and
n other western part . there are
still a lot of koli families christen
and hindu who survive on fshing
business they all are going to have
tough time with this governments
decision . Being the original inhab-
itants they are been deprived from
their rights . frstly the fshing busi-
ness is working in loss and a lot of
restrictions are implemented on
the boat owners who go fshing in
the sea and such a decision about
shifting the market have bought
the community into an immense
discontent .
Article by Franco John Patil
residing at Dharavi Koliwada
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History
...contd. from page 7

It is here that they learnt that
there were some countries ruled by
the British where rule within a rule
known as Home Rule or Self Rule was
permitted. Austria, Canada, New Zea-
land and South Africa though under
the umbrella of this Empire enjoyed
the privilege of Self Rule. Both the
students wondered why India couldnt
do the same. Joseph Baptista was cap-
tivated by this notion and returned to
India to introduce the same pattern of
rule in India known as Home Rule.
He pursued this concept to such an
extent that he came to be known as
the Father of the Home Rule Move-
ment.The friendship between Joseph
and Keshav who later came to be
known as Kaka and Bal grew as does
the waxing of the moon. The working
of Kaka at the Bombay Municipality
for 15 years brought him in the lime-
light and the patriotism which he ex-
hibited brought him very close to Bal
Gangadhar Tilak, who was more and
more inclined towards politics. Kaka
not only became the friend, philoso-
pher and guide of this leader but this
politician accepted him as his mentor.
Kakas legal mind was so fertile that
Tilak wouldnt do anything without
consulting this legal advisor of his.
Finally, it was at the instance of Ka-
kas advice that Tilak took his moto
that stirred the nation from Kashmir
to Kanyakumari: Swaraj is my birth-
right and I shall have it.
It was not easy for a village
boy of Uttan to rise to the status and
stature to be elected as the Mayor of
Bombay 100 years ago. He really
showed the colour of his ancestral
village which did not have water to
drink. During his lectures at the law
college people got a clear notion of
what Home Rule league was and that
was evident from the two books that
were published by him on the subject.
His visit to Geneva brought him to
the limelight. This hero of Uttan has
many frsts to his credit : He is the
frst to travel to Europe, the frst to be-
come the Barrister, the frst lecturer,
the frst author, the frst Citizen at the
civic level and the frst politician at
the national level. No wonder people
admired their Kaka.
Unfortunately, the one who
brought in the Home Rule was not
given due recognition at home when
the self rule did come to stay. Why
was it so? Was there any politics
within politics why he was sidelined?
It could be so. He was, on purpose,
sidetracked and ignored because he
did not hail from a majority commu-
nity that hailed from a minority com-
munity a microscopic community.
Other leaders of his caliber had insti-
tutions raised in their memories. They
had schools, colleges and universities
named after them. Here is a man who
does not have any institution named
after him. The people of Uttan must
not be satisfed just by having a me-
morial at a village or community level
but he should have institutions like
colleges and universities named after
him. Fortunately on the occasion of
his 150th birth anniversary the clouds
seem to have disappeared. The eclipse
is no more and people want to know
more and more about this village boy
who reached up to the national level.
Now things have reversed. In the last
century people from Uttan were going
to Bombay. Today Bombay is coming
to Uttan. The villagers of Uttan should
take advantage of this dramatic rever-
sal and place Kaka on the map and
give him due recognition.
...contd. from page 7
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Msgr. Fr. Francis Correa giving his
inspirational speech at Uttan.
Msgr. Fr. Francis begins with a prayer, NCP
leader Mr. Gilbert Mendonca in foreground.
The Bust of Kaka Baptista being adorned
with a garland.
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