[Published by Amaya Publishers Mobaim / Bombay 2018]
Pages: 366
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The title describes the common way in which Catholic priests are addressed in rural Maharashtra
The Catholic priest, Father Dick works among the Warli adivasis. He has built up a tribal organization to give the adivasi a sense of dignity and to empower them to fight for their rights.
The whole area is in the grip of a corrupt nexus of politicians, police, sahukars and contractors which has ripped off the adivasi for decades. Dick and his sangh are seen as a serious threat.
Even more, his religious superiors are uneasy with priests ‘meddling in politics’.
The story opens with a big scam in which politicians, the police and Dick’s own brother, a corrupt contractor, are complicit.
All want Dick quiet – or dead.
About the Author Myron Pereira s.j.
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[Published by Notion Press in 2018]
Pages: 241
Price: 350/- [Rupees / INR] Plus Postage and handling.
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What happens when a Catholic girl and a Hindu boy fall in love? In the story Getting Married asks if it the family which is the problem – or the couple themselves.
In the story, A Picture Window An American housewife gets a crush on a visiting Indian doctor and finds herself taking a second look at her fondest assumptions…
In A Day in the life of Father Henry, an old priest finds that things around him are changing much too fast… and worries, will he be able to cope?
Everyone knows that “judas” means traitor. The story I, Judah probes the character of Judas Iscariot, the companion of Jesus Christ, to find out why he acted as he did…
An escort girl trapped in the terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, learns not just how to survive, but how to bounce back. That’s To Survive and to Prosper.
Fifteen stories, fifteen slices of life. Some of them will make you smile; others will make you cry. But all of them will keep you absorbed and wondering, what if — ?
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[Published by Joy Burke Foundation Ahmedabad, available at Amaya Publishers]
Pages: 264
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Mission to Sabarkantha is the story of a Christian woman missionary, Rinaben, who lives among the Dungri Garasiya Bhils in Sabarkantha, north Gujarat. She loves the adivasi women with whom she works, and knows that she has their love in return.
But there are problems. Because Rinaben is reflective, and challenges the ways things are usually done, she is disliked by many of her peers. There are few people to talk to and discuss her ideas. One of them is the priest, Xavier Raj, a fellow missionary, who offers support and clarity. Another is Sabina Fernandes, a young woman from Bombay, come to Sabarkantha for a break. Sabina admires Rinaben and wishes she were like her.
But there are worse problems: the right-wing Hindu political party is determined to expel all missionaries from the area, and crush the local tribal Christians. Hostilities begin, skirmishes take place, and the local missionaries find themselves unable to handle the violent aggression.
These changed circumstances mean that Rinaben must re-consider how she sees her future. With every passing day, Rina’s mission to Sabarkantha becomes more dangerous.
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[Published by the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, 2004]
Pages: 232
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Marija Sres’s first book of short stories on the Dungri Garasiya adivasi women was published in 1994, and won her a Gujarat Sahitya Akademi award. This is a sequel – 25 more stories on the lives of the women of Sabarkantha.
Short stories and novels don’t usually focus on adivasi men or women as their subject: they are not thought interesting enough. It is to Marija Sres’s credit that she brought the adivasi into Gujarati literature, and depicted their personal stories with candour, insight and pathos. To read these stories is to enter into “that mysterious world of the Dungri Garasiya, for whom nothing is sure except that they have learned to survive from day to day.”
[Published by the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai 2003]
Pages: 184
Price: 250/- [Rupees / INR]
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The author is a Jesuit writer and artist based in Mumbai, who was for many years the director of the Xavier Institute of Communications, and the editor of the Jesuit monthly Jivan. Most of the articles in this collection – there are 46 of them – were published in this magazine. They are contemporary reflections on what it means to live in a Church and a country which often leave much to be desired. The essays are grouped together topicwise: “Art and Communication”, “India and its Future”, “Faith and Myth” and “Ethics in a Changing World” are some of these.
Altogether a collection of essays which is clear, concise and persuasive, and meant for the educated and critical reader.
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[Published by ARB Interactive, Mumbai (2014)]
Pages: 106
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The Early Jesuits in the ‘Province of the North’, 1548 to 1739 an illustrated album edited by Myron J. Pereira SJ
An excellent introduction for anyone interested in the origins of the Catholic Church in Bassein (Vasai), Thane and the Salsette peninsula. Although the Franciscan order preceded the Jesuits, this collection of essays was put together on the occasion of the Jesuit bi-centenary of its Restoration (1814) and is very much a Jesuit story. Lavishly illustrated.