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A
newly wed East Indian woman
arrives at her husbands house
in the early 1930s only to rea-
lise theres a battle being fought since
many years about land. The indig-
enous / East Indian couple continue
to live their married life while battling
70 migrant Catholic and 3 Hindu Mi-
grant families who are illegally oc-
cupying the indigenous familys land
through treachery.
We have seen this story in
many forms in this country as well as
in frst world countries. America killed
the indigenous through various cam-
paigns namely, Murder in cold blood,
civilizing the tribes to take out the
Indian and Retain the Man campaign
through its missionary activities, cre-
ating systems to address dissent like
the Courts and other law maintain-
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ing agencies. There is never a doubt
that the Migrant occupiers who run
the Courts will own the courts too to
make sure there is continuity of their
designs. Thus countries are formed
and sustained with the concept of
pacifying the indigenous through un-
delivered promises so they dont fght
back and continue to live under domi-
nation of their rulers.
Back to the story of this newly
wedded couple. This couple continued
to fght their occupiers in the courts.
The battle was with the corrupt, but
they continued to have nave faith in
the Migrant Judicial system.
They had eight children, 2 Girls and
6 boys. Large families were encour-
aged since the indigenous were
targeted by many non-indigenous
for their lands. Migrant governments
would bring in truck loads of people
to squat on indigenous lands. They
used violence and the state machin-
ery. ...contd on page 3
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his publication is the voice of the
indigenous people of the Kokan
region. The plight of the indige-
nous is miserable, no main stream media
seems to be interested in our countless
stories of struggle and triumphs. There
is a larger design at play here, just like
Aam Aadmi Party, who are not the main
stream medias darlings, so are we the
under dogs since thousands of years. Can
you imagine we have had many rulers but
none were indigenous. Invaders, Peshwa
kings, Moghuls, Portuguese and the Brit-
ish ruled us in the past, our motherland
exploited, yet none of us indigenous have
a say in the affairs pertaining our own
Motherland. We are never consulted on
anything. Our fertile farmlands are taken
away through State policy for building
railroads and highways and public works
and utilities for the migrant, we continue
to suffer. When the Aryans decide, we
are either Pathare Prabhus giving away
land, or OBCs when we resist. Its time
to take back our lands and resist the
non-indigenous government and declare
Indigenous Self Rule. The real Swaraj.
Lets Unite!
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I
f Sion Koliwada falls, all oth-
er Koliwadas will fall. these
are the words of Ms. Madhuri
Shivkar & Mr. Nelson Fernandes,
indigenous & currently residing
in their semi demolished homes in
Sion koliwada.
When Builder Sudhakar
Shetty used treachery to acquire
the area of more than 5 acres in
Sion Koliwada, little did he know
of what was to follow in terms of a
protest. A battle like situation was
the environment in Sion Koliwada.
The builder along with the BMC
and an army of Police managed to
threaten the residents of sion ko-
liwada into moving into their box
like one room transit apartments
without any paperwork. The stakes
are high, with politicians on the
take in this huge 5 acre treacher-
ous land deal.
The residents protested
and were arrested and thrown into
prison under false charges framed
by the gallant police offcers of
Sion. The BMC quickly brought
in heavy equipment started de-
molishing the heritage koliwada.
The indigenous people fought
back. Ms. Medha Patkar joined
the fght. The usual dharna con-
tinued with no effect, crooked
lawyers came forward to assist.
They weakened the indigenous
Kolis case miserably. The indig-
enous people changed lawyers and
now the case is in the high court.
In the smaller courts the
builders men would bid like in an
auction, by pretending to scratch
their heads but put up fngers to
symbolise the amount of lakhs the
judge would get. The judge would
then make sure the case was in
favour of the builder. Any which
way the builder was the winner.
says a resident of Sion Koliwada
who witnessed this frst hand.
Other organisations like
BIPA stepped in with MMKS [Ma-
harashtra Machimar Kruti Sami-
ti]. These NGOs objectives are
to support the indigenous in their
struggles. A clarion call was giv-
en, this generated more support.
This is a wake-up call to the
indigenous of Mobaim, if Sion Ko-
liwada falls, all other indigenous
habitat will fall. The lure of money
has sold our nation, we are merely
ancient tribes who have survived
many rulers, only this ruler uses
religion and money to divide for
the sake of proft. They dont care
for the nation, their God is Money.
It is true that The Meek will in-
herit the earth. The indigenous
have shown that it is possible with
a will and a fghting spirit to resist
oppression and injustice.
Bhim Pada - Vikhroli
Golibar - Khar East
Shiv Koliwada - Sion
Sion Koliwada - Sion
Not a single Political party came
forward to help.
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...Contd. from page 1.
Foreign rulers used weapons of mass
destruction since thousands of years
to weaken nations they wanted to
rule.
Such was the environment of un-
certainty around this newly married
couple. Many of the indigenous died
of such weapons in the recent past i.e.
the late 1800s & 1900s, the weapon
was aptly made to sound natural as the
plague, the bubonic plague.
Large families were encour-
aged by the indigenous since the rate
of survival was low and continuity of
tribes is maintained in this manner.
The newly wedded husband was a se-
nior engineer in a reputed company in
the 40s. He could support an entire
village with his earnings and he did.
But then the 70 Catholic migrants
families formed a group titled after an
esoteric concept, Nirvana. They used
the law and corruption to achieve their
temporary objectives. The keepers of
the system desires that the indigenous
disappear, so that their larger designs
could come into effect.
The Indigenous East Indian
family was dragged to court and hu-
miliated. Their children who were
sheltered by Irish Christian Brothers
in education, were taken out of their
classrooms to be present in courts, to
attend cases put on them by migrant
occupiers with the ambition of remov-
ing the indigenous totally out of their
own motherland. The cases went on
for years. The Crass that ruled the na-
tion and continue to do so, made sure
justice was delayed and denied to the
indigenous. They do this throughout
the whole country and continue to do
so even today.
Time went by, the sufferings
of this Indigenous family continued
through the system and corruption.
The police was used, the Adminis-
tration was used and the migrant oc-
cupiers of the Indigenous land had a
feld day toying with the lives of the
innocent women in this large indig-
enous family. No one came to the
Indigenous aid. They were pacifed
by concepts of religion to not fght
back Offer the other cheek was ad-
vised. But the fghting spirit contin-
ued. Members of that family began
to be targeted. First the Patriarch was
hit on the head killing him instantly
and the police wrote a report saying
it was an accident and he fell to the
ground hitting the back of his head on
the pavement. Secondly, documents
were forged. The children were mo-
lested and made to do menial jobs for
the catholic & hindu migrants. The
Indigenous trees and livestock were
poisoned. The mother of 8 children
was harassed and humiliated in many
ways indescribable.
The migrant occupiers had
lawyers among themselves, managed
to demolish the indigenous house on
various legal pretexts. The indigenous
continued to have faith in the sys-
tem, they approached many courts.
The migrant occupiers continued to use
the system to oppress the Indigenous.
On seeing her children with-
out a roof, the widowed mother of 8
children went into a shock. But her
spirit was one with mother earth. She
built her house with her own hands
and was ready to do anything to pre-
serve it. The Migrants were afraid of
her. They compared her to the spirit
of the Jaguar - A wild animal who is
not afraid of any adversary, be it hu-
man too. The family was broken but
yet united in spirit. The weak among
the siblings were targeted, false police
cases put on them, some gave up on
their education to focus on the cases.
They failed in Society.
Time went by, their fghter
mother passed away. The fght went
cold. Nonetheless continued. Justice
delayed. All approaches exhausted.
Its 2014, the children have
taken the fght forward. I am the
youngest of these 8 children, I have
seen oppression up close and in per-
son. I am Luke Gabriel Mendes in-
digenous to Mobaim, Bombay for the
uninitiated and Mumbai for the igno-
rant. I survived with help from loved
ones, got the best education here and
abroad with a lot, I mean a lot of dif-
fculty. I was offered to settle in New
York, but I chose my motherland be-
cause my heart bleeds for my people
and My land. My story is similar to
the millions of Indigenous in this na-
tion who continue to seek for justice
but none ever see it. I have news for
all of them. Justice is not sought af-
ter, its delivered. Let those with ears
hear! My call to the indigenous, this is
the beginning Unite ! Ekot hua For
our Motherland!
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Your Mother Tongue in Kokan is KOKNI
O
n enquiring with many
scholars and writers about
our mother tongue, most of
them only quoted what was written
in recent books that were dated in
the 1700 and 1800s. I travelled the
coastline as well as to the adivasi
habitats in the Kokan region. Most
natives told me that Kokni was their
mother tongue. It was not only their
mother tongue, but also the language
is of antiquity. I met linguists here
and abroad. They reasoned with me.
Sanskrit was a spoken language. To
preserve it from corruption, a brah-
min father would teach his frst born
male child the language, orally. San-
skrit never had a written script.
I asked the tribals what
would they say for sunlight, they
told me Nimbhar, the word for
Cook is Randh I put forth many
words to many such tribes and found
out that the language they spoke was
my mother tongue, which is East In-
dian. East Indian is the term given
to the Indigenous Catholic popula-
tion of Bombay, who came together
throwing away all labels of previous
hindu caste and class and formed a
cohesive body called East Indians
after the East India company. They
got the Queen of England who was
ruling Bombay to recognise their
new identity. The East Indians re-
tained their ancient practices which
were part Hindu and Mostly Tribal.
East Indian is not a lan-
guage, but the natives chose to call
it thus. I was enlightened to learn
that Kokni had an ancient script
called Dev Nagri. This script was
created in the Land of Saints, Dev
Nagri the land of Kokan. Since San-
skrits origins were beyond the In-
dus valley and the script there was
mostly arabic, Sanskrit borrowed
the Dev Nagri script because of the
long association of the past with the
meek natives. Many scholars ask
why is Sanskrit script not in Punja-
bi, or Gujrathi and why is it in Dev
Nagri? The answer is, the ancient
land mass of Kokan spread from
Kerala to Karachi and some say up
to the southern coastline of Iran.
Hence Persia was familiar with the
dev nagri script. The indgenous lan-
guage of Kokan is inevitably Kokni.
The ancient Kokan was
from Kerala to Karachi. Today the
East Indians speak the language
not learnt from books but from
their parents and thus the language
has survived. Politics and Religion
have played a major part in denying
the indigenous their identity. East
Indian parents know best the im-
portance of identity when they ask
their children to learn their mother
tongue. Its time to teach the entire
Kokan region their mother tongue.
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Editors Choice of words
In todays scenario, where money dic-
tates life and morality, its our commu-
nity, the Indigenous of the land right
from the beginning, have come for-
ward and set the standards for a cohe-
sive sustainable society. Corruption is
like a venomous snake gone mad and
needs to be de-fanged or killed. It is
dangerous, and we have been fghting
it for thousands of years, way before
the Aryans came here to civilize the
indigenous tribes. Little did the Aryans
know that we have survived for more
than 100,000 years as mixed tribes,
each specializing in their own tradi-
tion and livelihood, Genetic tests have
proven it. There was no currency; your
skill-set was your only currency. If you
knew how to grow rice and you needed
fsh for the week, you would exchange
one weeks supply of rice in exchange
for one weeks supply of fsh in accor-
dance to family size and quantity. This
Hunda system made the social struc-
ture so strong that it survived along
with the tribes practicing it. Once the
Aryans came here, they brought with
them other social control texts, cur-
rency concepts and philosophies. Their
concepts created and continue to create
social disparity. Its time as a communi-
ty we need to go back to our tribal roots
and live in harmony with Mother Earth.
We need to adapt to the new challenges
that threaten to wipe the Indigenous to-
tally. We need to equip ourselves with
knowledge. We need to know the art of
war and self preservation as a whole.
We need to acquire survival skills like
marksmanship, niche engineering and
science, healthcare innovation and
unique fnancial stability like our own
autonomous economy. Most impor-
tantly we need to stay in touch with our
traditional way of livelihood. We need
to start caring for our fellow tribesmen
and for our natural resources and we
must never hesitate to stand with them
in any fght that goes against the laws
of the land, not man made written laws
but natural laws of the land that dic-
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other species and plants. Any particu-
lar race or community who thinks they
can destroy or plunder OUR God given
natural resources for their comforts,
that race or community must be treated
with a iron hand. Our Natural resourc-
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Clean Air, Our Mountains, Oil & ener-
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natural resources frst belong to the
Indigenous. We need to connect again
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llegal slums are a proven design of political parties and
government offcers to grab indigenous land and in-
crease voter base as well as make lots of money. This has
been continuing for many years now and we have kept silent.
Just because its not happening on our land we are not wor-
ried. Land is the only commodity that cannot be produced.
Land is the only element on which wars have been
waged and borders created. Land does not belong to any
person or individual, but belongs to the indigenous com-
munity who have preserved its integrity for thousands of
years without encroaching or destroying the natural habi-
tat of plants and animal, indigenous have always main-
tained the balance of nature. This political interference
in Indigenous land needs to be addressed immediately
before they destroy our motherland and move to a foreign
country to enjoy their ill gotten wealth. We need to mo-
bilise and implement the law of the land on our own. The
so called Maoist are actually tribals fghting for their
land grabbed by the government and handed over to non
indigenous mining companies. We are all aware of how
the country is being sold for money. These encroachers
are not poor, but they are clever. Since they belong to the
political class, they are involved in all kinds of rackets
and crimes such as drug peddling, kidnapping, prostitu-
tion etc. Daily in Bombay children and women go miss-
ing. They are either found dead or are sold to brothels.
All this is made possible because they are allowed to op-
erate from our land. We must get together and form our
own vigilante group and save our land. These slum lords
are into the business of encroaching land and they even
destroyed our oxygen providing precious mangroves.
Mangroves provide 50 times more oxygen than regular
trees. Kilometers of mangroves have been cut to house
their crimes. These encroachers are criminal elements in-
volved with the police and the political class. We must
not hesitate to implement the law and take all involved to
task. By Blossom Ferreira
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Homeopathic Medical Camp organised over
two years organised in Koliwadas and Gao-
thans in Bombay / Mobaim by BIPA - Bom-
bays Indigenous Peoples Association.
Luke Gabriel Mendes from BIPA taking down ailment details from
the poorest of poor marginalized people.
Mr. Virendra Tiwari and Mr. Shreedhar Kolan from Schwabe
India, assisting in the medical camps with Dr. Hiten Saf at
Vakola Gaothan. Dr. Hiten practises from Kandivali west.
Charitable Trust Regn. No. F-39227 /10
Society Regn. No.848/2005
Bombays Indigenous Peoples
Association
A
fter doing research and with
many consultations with well
known doctors, we at BIPA
decided to reach out to the marginal-
ized of society and provide a sustain-
able affordable healthcare program
that will not only beneft the masses,
but also give them hope that there are
the Indigenous who still care for the
homeless and marginalized.
Our study in this
form of medicine revealed that ho-
meopathy derives its medicines from
nature. 250 odd years ago, a German
Doctor, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann
travelled the world and mingled with
the Indigenous communities. His sole
objective was to study Medicine from
the indigenous tribes. His logic was
such, if the indigenous have survived
for thousands of years and faced so
many diseases, how did they manage
to do so, and what was their medi-
cine? Dr. Samuel Hahnemann took
enormous trouble to collate informa-
tion through landscape and language
barriers and come up with Materia
Medica. Ayurveda was also part of
his study. He improved upon the in-
digenous knowledge of medicine and
created Homeopathy some 250 years
ago. World War 1 casualties used his
medicines with great success. Proft
mongerers demonize everything that
is good and cheaply available so that
they can monopolize healthcare. No
disease is diffcult to beat with ho-
meopathy and naturopathy. The fnal
stage of any disease always poses a
challenge for the most modern medi-
cine too.
The demonization of any
thing creates a lots of enemy for its
self. Propaganda from vested in-
terests give other schools of medi-
cine a bad name. The white pills in
homeopathy: these pills are made
from the frst lot of sugar process-
ing. Its the purest from of glucose.
The concentration in the strength of
the medicine is measured as such, 6c,
30, 60, 100, 200, 1M and 10M, where
6c is mild and 10M is very strong.
The fower Arnica [It is yel-
low and looks like a mini sunfower],
is crushed and put through a process
where its potency / medicinal strength
is separated from fber and other col-
ors and is preserved in alcohol. This
alcohol is only produced by the gov-
ernment to maintain its high stan-
dards worldwide. The doctor puts
the concentration of this medicine
in a container with sugar pills. The
brain recognizes sugar as food and
the medicine is delivered to its desti-
nation. The alcohol is strong and the
sugar also makes swallowing easy.
The white sweet powder that the doc-
tor gives in small folded packets is
pure lactose only made in Denmark.
These powders are used only at the
doctors discretion. There are rumors
that some doctors use Steroids in their
medicines. That is true in some cases.
Most doctors dont use steroids since
its does have some side effects, this
could lead to those doctors losing
their credibility, homeopathy very
rarely has any side effects.
Germany has a frst of its kind Ho-
meopathy Hospital that functions like
any busy large hospital in the world.
We at BIPA have already pro-
vided service to 25,000 people over
two years. BIPA requires funds to con-
tinue to reach out to the marginalized
/ poor. Your contributions will help us
continue our work. Our Panel of Doc-
tors include Dr. Charulata, Dr. Hiten,
Dr. Kayuum, Dr. John Rodrigues, Dr.
Disha Vera among others. If you do
need medical advise or you need to
consult a Homeopathic doctor or even
organise a medical camp in your area,
kindly email us on;
aamchimaatimansa@gmail. com
Dr. Hahnemann
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DWELLING

Injustice anywhere is a threat

to justice everywhere. - Mar-
tin Luther King.
From December 1st. 2012, concerned
activists and residents of Malwani
Malad, approached various authori-
ties including the Municipal com-
missioner. All gave assurances but
the problems have not been resolved.
The 30,000 signatures, memorandum,
postcards, sms and email campaigns
have failed to stir the concerned au-
thorities. A meeting with the Chief
Minister was sought but has not mate-
rialized. We have been given the silent
treatment by the authorities.
Through RTIs and investi-
gations, the indigenous activists and
residents of Malwani discovered a
deliberate manipulation of the Malad
/Marve Road line which swung it to-
wards the Church [A heritage Grade
2A Structure 400 years old] which
robs the church of precious ancestral
heritage land [Approx 25,000 sq ft.]
In the ongoing current road expan-
sion, the Church has already given
10,000 sq ft. of land as the BMC has
taken equally on both sides but in the
Church and School area they want it
only from the Church side. On the op-
posite side of the Church illegal build-
ings have come up and they are not
being touched. Father Austin Norris,
Parish Priest of St. Anthonys Church,
have kept Cardinal Oswald Gracias,
Archbishop of Bombay apprised on
a regular basis. Cardinal Gracias has
been concerned and His Eminence has
also taken up this issue with the high-
est authorities at the state and center.
In the recent past the BMC has made
unjust attempts to take the St. Peters
Church, Bandra, St. Andrews Church
and Parsi Agiary lands. Citizens groups
had vociferously protested. Recently
notices were served on Sacred Heart
Church, Santacruz and Missionaries
of Charity at Vile Parle.
The Damocles sword still
hangs and we cant remain quiet or
complacent. The BMC being a cor-
poration and not a Charitable trust
expects the common Indigenous citi-
zen to give their land and beneft in-
dividuals who are part of the political
and bureaucracy class. The Police is
party to whatever the administration
decides and cannot be trusted.
All this land grab is for the sake of
Chalo Azad Maidan !
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development so that the state can pro-
vide free housing to their progeny as
well as their workers who encroach
upon open land reserved for nature
[Rivers, Mangroves, Forests, lakes,
salt pans which regulate the water lev-
el of the sea and other open spaces].
The Indigenous of Bombay / Mobaim
have put forth demands that have to
be met by the state machinery before
popular anger is expressed on the
streets as well as in courts.
1. Immediate & permanent withdraw-
al of Unjust land acquisition notices
served to St. Anthonys Church and
School, Malwani, Malad [W] & Our
Lady of Assumption Church & St. Jo-
seph School, Kandivali [W]
2. Demand immediately set up and
make functional Christian Cemeteries
at Kandivali [E] & Goregaon [E] for
over 1.25 lac resident Christians.
3. Withdraw all tourism development
contd. on page 9
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BIPA - Activity
Our Gaothans, Koliwadas,
Bhimwadas, Agri &
Adivasi Padas could look like
this little village in Modern
day Spain.
T
he preservation and conti-
nuity of our heritage and
culture cannot be depended
on the whims of those who govern
us, but it will depend solely on our
own efforts. BIPA is planning a
campaign titled Beautiful village
with all other associations, like
minded and skilled people. Today
most gaothans have non-indige-
nous people as residents who have
no love for the motherland. Some
of our people along with these
Non-Indigenous Residents [Lets
give them an acronym - NIR], rent
and sell their houses to other NIRs
who again have no love for the
motherland, conduct illegal devel-
opments and a gaothan / Koliwada
begins to resemble a slum. What
the indigenous does not under-
stand that after selling the land the
money too gets spent, in no time
the indigenous person is now with-
out money and also without land.
The Supreme Court Writ Peti-
tion 664 of 1993 states that under
the CRZ notifcation 1991, tradi-
tional coastal communities cannot
Sell or Transfer traditional lands
to Non-Traditional communities.
And likewise non-traditional per-
sons cannot purchase land in tradi-
tional habitat / dwelling places.
Leasing is always the best option
for short term monetary gains. An-
other most effcient way for the
indigenous to earn a livelihood is
to beautify the village and create
high standards and interest for the
tourists. But that micro economy
must be handled by the indigenous
and it should be their full right to
do so legally without the interfer-
ence of the BMC and others. Our
lawyers must assist our people
toward self sustenance. Thus the
village beautifcation project will
not only make money for our
people they will also be proud of
their habitat and be compelled to
maintain the place to keep tour-
ists interested. Email for more info
aamchimaatimansa@gmail.com
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plans & dumping grounds from the
Versova, Madh, Marve, Manori
Gorai, Uttan areas. These plans will
have a direct impact on the lifestyle,
livelihood & natural habitat on the
Indigenous people.
4. Withdraw all demolition notices on
Ancient Crosses in the City and state
of Maharashtra. Police to be ques-
tioned on inaction towards the des-
ecration of crosses and crimes against
Christians in Maharashtra. Culprits to
be arrested as soon as possible.
5. Demand immediate resolution to
issues of Gaothans, Koliwadas, Agri-
padas, Adivasi Padas thru withdraw-
ing notifcations in DP of these areas
as Slums, Scrap SEZs, SRA schemes
in Gaothans & Koliwadas and give
Enough Damage is done to our motherland, we cannot expect the
BMC Corporation to have wisdom. No More Land to Govt.
BMC, We stand for Peace but will NOT give a Piece of
Our Land. One placard read.
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a single window repair permissions
with representatives of the communi-
ty in government offces [MHADA,
BMC, SRA, Environment, Traffc,
Police, Customs, Port Trust, Forest]
6. Maharashtra, in 2013 is the No. 2
state in India with the highest atroci-
ties against Christians [Times of In-
dia Mumbai 23rd Jan 2014 Times
city page 7] STOP THIS HAPPEN-
ING IMMEDIATELY and enforce
Rule of Law and the Constitution of
freedom to practise and propagate
Religion.
All these points to be dis-
cussed in Azad Maidan on 15th
March 2014, 3:00 pm onwards.
Other wellwishers can join in to show
their support.
* St. Anthonys Church requires your support to fght this injustice. Church land belongs to its parishioners and not the BMC to use for builders.
Kindly send donation cheques made in favor of St. Anthonys Church and courier it to St Anthonys Church, Malwani, Malad west Mum-95.
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HEALTH
Bottled Water Is Bad for You !
B
ottled water is often associ-
ated with health and clean-
liness. A major concern in
the mainstream in recent years has
been the presence of BPAs (Bis-
phenol A), chemicals that leach off
plastic containers and contaminate
the food or liquid inside and cause
problems spanning hormonal is-
sues, migraines, obesity, birth de-
fects, and even cancer. But BPAs
are only the tip of the iceberg, for
the vast majority of chemicals in
bottled water are not only not yet
known, but havent yet been stud-
ied for potential health hazards,
until recently.
A 2013 German study
found that bottled water is contam-
inated with nearly 25,000 different
chemicals on average, after exam-
ining 18 different brands that had
a mean number of 24,520. These
chemicals are not harmless. The
scientists were unable to identify
the direct effects of each single
chemical, but they did make strong
conclusions about the net overall
effect of consuming these common
brands of bottled water.
They found that 13 out of 18 had
serious antiestrogenicity effects,
and 16 out of 18 waters were an-
tiadrogenic, meaning they caused
disruption of male hormones and
reproductive organs, by reducing
the functionality of androgen re-
ceptors by as much as 90%.
Because this study only focused on
the hormonal effects of bottled wa-
ter chemicals, it did not make con-
clusions about the potential harms
on the rest of the body. More im-
portantly, the scientists noted that
more must be done, because lack
of research up to this point has al-
lowed plastic manufacturers and
distributors to go largely unregulat-
ed, a key issue they emphasized:
Applying a novel approach to
combine biological and chemical
analysis this is the frst study to
identify so far unknown EDCs in
bottled water. Notably, dioctyl fu-
marates and maleates [broad class-
es of chemicals] have been over-
looked by science and regulation
to date. This illustrates the need
to identify novel toxicologically
relevant compounds to establish a
more holistic picture of the human
exposome.
Its almost impossible to
avoid drinking anything out of a
plastic bottle at one point or anoth-
er, so at this point, its important at
least to use a BPA-container when
available. If you buy a drink at a
store, you can minimize your expo-
sure to leached chemicals by stick-
ing to plastic bottles that are labeled
with a 1 or at worst a 2 at the
bottom. These numbers refect the
quality and strength of the plastic
used, and thus their varying pro-
pensities to leak chemical residues
into the contained liquid. Unfortu-
nately for the urban class bottled
water is a convenience and for the
shallow minded a status symbol.
Source: Jonathan Cho - Real Phar-
macy
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volunteers, partners, dedicated interested people to help and assist in getting
our voice to our people. We need Most Importantly are FUNDS and
committed people.

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G
od can only save the people
of Kadeshwari Mandir Road,
Off. St. John Baptista Road,
Bandra west, Mumbai From Den-
gue, Malaria and other water borne
disesases.
Despite of my written com-
plaint against Illegal shops over wa-
ter drains, covering the Fire Hydrants
to the Municipal Commissioner,
Mumbai, The Assistant Municipal
Commissioner, Mr. Prashant Sapkale,
H- west ward , Bandra west and Ms.
Karen Dmello, Councillor ward
no.96, Indian National Congress
Party there has been no action with
respect to demolition of the illegal
shops.
After my complaint Shri
Baba Siddique- MLA Indian National
Congress along with Ms. Karen
Dmello had visited Kadeshwari
Mandir Road Bandra (west), but
that was only for a political purpose.
When Mr. Clifford Cardoz a resident
of Kadeshwari mandir Road request-
ed Ms. Karen Dmello to take action
against these illegal shops, she said
that it is not her job to demolish the
illegal shops on the water drains.
So it is very clear that the
Indian National Congress Councillor
and MLA are supporting and guard-
ing illegal shops over public water
drains at Kadeshwari Mandir Road
for Vote bank purpose. Despite of
annexing photographs of, stagnant
Dengue at Kadeshwari - Bandra
water of a over fowing water drain
with shops on it, fre hydrant occu-
pied by shops, in my written com-
plaint, there has not been any action
either from the Municipal Corpora-
tion or the elected representatives of
Indian National Congress party.
This is a clear case of vote
bank politics by the Indian National
Congress. There are more than 50
shops, come up within a span of 2 to
3 years. The maintenance staff of the
BMC cannot clean the water drains, I
have made several complaints to the
BMC, but there is no action from the
BMC. This amounts to dereliction
of duty by elected representatives of
the Indian National Congress and the
Assistant Municipal Commissioner. I
have attached my written complaint
addressed to the Municipal Commis-
sioner, Mumbai, The Assistant Mu-
nicipal Commissioner, Mr. Prashant
Sapkale, H- west ward , Bandra west
and Ms. Karen Dmello, Councillor
ward no.96, Indian National Con-
gress Party along with Photgraphs of
the Illegal Shops for public perusal.

Shane Cardoz
Advocate
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HEALTH
They took our Land, Water and now Air
I
n the early nineties, perhaps over
37 sq. km. of mangroves existed in
Mumbai, largely in the Thane creek,
Mahim, Versova, Gorai and Ghodbunder,
with sporadic patches in places such as
Bandra, Malabar Hill and Colaba. Mum-
bai has probably lost 40 per cent of all
its mangroves in the past decade or so,
largely because of reclamation for hous-
ing, slums, sewage treatment and garbage
dumps. Fortunately, thanks to the Godrej
family, we still have excellent mangrove
forests in Vikhroli (Link).
Around 20 out of the 35 species of true
mangroves found in India have been iden-
tifed along the Maharashtra coast and 15
species of these are found in Mumbai.
Because of the high salinity of
the soil, something like 60 per cent of
Mumbai mangroves comprise Avicennia
marina. Not surprisingly this species also
tolerates pollution including heavy met-
als such as lead, mercury and chromium,
all found in signifcant concentrations in
the Mithi river. Rapid illegal develop-
ments like illegal land encroachments
by the BMC, industrialization, pollu-
tion and increasing infux of uncultured
migrant population into Mumbai has re-
sulted into the degradation of mangroves.
There are two important creeks, Vasai
Creek towards north and Thane Creek
towards the south where luxuriant man-
grove patches are still left. Otherwise the
State Govt. agencies have failed to protect
this important, productive mangrove eco-
system from building mafas whom the
State and bureaucracy are involved with.
Nothing can be expected from
the state except harassment of activists
who are trying to protect these mangroves,
politicians do this only for personal proft
stored in Swiss Banks. The worst affected
area in Mumbai is the entire western front
excepting Carter Road where the man-
groves have grown and have also regis-
tered an increase in height in the last 10
years. This has only been possible due to
the participation of citizens forums fght-
ing individually against the state.
In India, a legal protection is af-
forded to this ecosystem by way of legis-
lation in the form of Coastal Regulation
Zone Notifcation implemented by the
Supreme Court. Recently Mumbai High
Court has ordered freeze on destruction
of mangrove forests in Maharashtra and
has banned construction within 50 metres
of them. The court has also directed to no-
tify mangrove areas as protected forests.
Thus, there is already a mechanism pro-
vided for management of this ecosystem.
Unfortunately, however many a times the
legal provisions are not being enforced
to curb the illegal activities because the
law is not implemented since the Police
and Politicians are working with the land
mafas. The IGNORANT politicians use
these encroachers of land as their vote
banks with promises of permanent hous-
ing on Mangrove forest lands. Little do
they realize that the rapid destruction of
mangroves along the coast of Mumbai
will have far-reaching effects on the city.
In such a situation, protection of
the mangrove ecosystem is possible only
through the participation of the local com-
munity and by building up pressure groups
for ensuring management of this ecosys-
tem and strict implementation of the legal
provisions by the Government. The integ-
rity of habitats are critical for fsh breeding,
feeding and for biodiversity, apart from
ecological sustainability and communi-
ty-sustainability could be maintained.
Lets help our motherland,
email your ideas on this issue to
aamchimaatimansa@gmail.com
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MANGROVES
our lungs and livelihood being
encroached by illegal development
CRZ norms fouted by BMC
Mangroves cleared behind Janki Devi School. This calculated de-
struction of Mangroves and illegal debri dumping and settlements
show the BMCs involvement in this huge crime.
To
Advertise with us, kindly email us on
aamchimaatimansa@gmail.com
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Indigenous Personality of the Month
J
oseph Kaka Baptista (17 March
1864 (1864-03-17)1930) was an In-
dian freedom fghter from Bombay (to-
day known as Mumbai), closely associat-
ed with the Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the
Home Rule Movement. He was elected
as the Mayor of Bombay in 1925. He was
given the title Kaka that means Uncle.
Barrister Joseph Baptista popularly
known as Kaka Baptista was born on
March 17, 1864, in Matharpacady, Mazg-
aon, Mumbai. He hails from Vadvals who
are grouped in the East Indian Christian
Community. His father was John Baptis-
ta from Uttan, Salsette near Bassein. He
was educated at St. Marys High School,
Nesbit Road, Mazagaon. He was one of
the brilliant students of the school. After
matriculation he joined The College of
Science at Pune and studied Civil Engi-
neering.
In 1886 he acquired the L.C.E. degree
of the University of Bombay. He was
then employed in Bombay Provincial
Government as engineer in the Forest
Department. He was engineer at Thane
and Sind for seven years. He did not like
the element of corruption then prevalent
amongst the Europeans and so left the
job. After his resignation he sailed for
London to pursue studies in Law and
Political Science. He obtained a B.A.
degree in Political Science in 1898 from
Fritzbillian College, Cambridge as also
the Law Tripos from Cambridge in 1899.
This was the time when Baptista frst met
Lokmanya Tilak. Napoleonic in stature,
he was a prize for his size.
Important events.
1864 Born at Mazgaon, Mumbai.
1883 Passed L.C.E. of B.U.; Joined For-
est Department of Bombay State.
1894 Resigned the Forest Department
1895 Proceeded to London to study Law
and British Politics.
1897 Moved a resolution in the Students
Union, Cambridge.
1899 Passed B.A. in Politics from Cam-
bridge and acquired Law Tripos from
Greys Inn and returned to India to prac-
tice Law.
1900 Lecturer in Law School, Bombay.
1901 Published his two booms: Interna-
tional Commerce Law, Roman Law.
1901 Accepted Vaklat Nama of Mr. V.D.
Savarkar and others.
1901 Entered in Bombay Municipal Cor-
poration.
1908 Accepted Vakalat Nama of Tilak.
1908 Ac-
cepted Vaka-
lat Nama of
S.M. Paran-
jape.
1915 Poona
Pr ovi nc i a l
Conference
and Baptis-
tas speech.
1916 Home
Rule League
set up in
April at Bel-
gaum.
1916 Draft
Co n s t i t u -
tion on Ca-
nadian Pat-
tern.
1917 First
Labour strike
of Postal
Dept. : Bap-
tistas Lead-
ership.
1918 Bap-
tistas pamphlet in London on Selft-
determination for India.
1919 Bombay Provincial Conference.
1919 Responsive Co-operation to
U.K.
1919 Mill Workers strike : Baptistas
Leadership.
1919 Rowlat Act: Baptista pronounced
it as Kala Kaida.
1920 All India Trade Union Congress
formed by Lala Lajpat Rai, Diwan Cha-
man Lal Dua and Barrister Baptista.
1921 Second Session of AITUC at Jharia
and Baptistas Address.
1924 Baptista elected at Legislative
Council.
1925 Baptista elected Mayor of Bombay
1927 Baptista proceeded to Geneva
1930 August, pronounces help to Indian
National Congress.
1930 September, Baptistas demise at
Bombay
Baptista died in 1930 and is buried in the
Sewri cemetery. In 1999, a book on Bap-
tista titled Joseph Baptista: The father of
Home Rule in India was released by K R
Shirsat at Lalbaug in Mumbai. Through
the book, the author hoped that Baptista
would be a role model for modern-day
youths.
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