JIVIT 2011 | December | Volume 19, Number 12 DOWNLOAD  

SAVIA VIEGAS Angelo da Fonseca, artist and muralist living in the crucial century that ushered in nationalism and revolt against colonial rule, envisaged that Christianity should find a home in post colonial India.  The hope was justified as the Indian society was secular and multi-religious. Christians, who were in a minority and had lived in [...]

JIVIT 2011 | December | Volume 19, Number 12 DOWNLOAD  

SAVIO ABREU SJ On 19 December 2011, Goa celebrates fifty years of liberation from Portuguese rule. Fifty years in the crucible of history may seem like a drop in the ocean, but these brief but momentous years have been shaped by a long chain of events spread over hundreds of years and at the same [...]

RINALD D’SOUZA SJ History is often said to be written by the victors. Not necessarily. On 20 August 2011 some 357 students from 30 schools across Goa, along with their teachers and friends, descended at XCHR, Porvorim and made history by taking part in the first edition of the XCHR Inter-School Goa History Quiz Competition. [...]