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June - July 2017Vol. XVII Issue No. 4

Patron:Rev Fr Thathireddy Vijaya BhaskarSDBProvincial

Editor:Fr Benny Joseph SDB

Co-editors:Fr Pitchaimuthu Arul Das SDBFr Therampil Jose SDBFr Govindu Joseph SDBFr Neelam Ratna Kumar SDBCl Dasari Shiva Johannes

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Published from:DB KaburluC/o. Don Bosco Provincial HouseHimayathsagar RoadDon Bosco Nagar PostBandlaguda JagirHyderabad - 500 086.Mobile: 83339 81520E-mail: inhsec@gmail.comWebsite: www.donboscohyderabad.org

02. Annual Meetings at the Provincial House

03. Innauguration of New Academic year at

Karunapuram

04. DB Motinagar shines at the 34 Youth

National Basketball championships

05. ‘Marginalization and the Birth of

Deconstruction’ Annual Philosophical

Symposium

06. Seminar on Facts and Myths Charismatic

Ministry

07. Blood Donation Camp at Karunapuram

08. A Month Dedicated with Love for Mary at

Karunapuram

09. Local youth Coordinators and young

Priests Meet

10. From Schools to Panchayats: Growth of

Child Rights Clubs in Andhra and Telangana -

Ravulapalem

13. Congrats: we are pround of you

13. Fr Maliekal Jose: Standstill Utopias

14. Putti Anthaiah and Fr Prakash

Maramreddy obtain their M.Th. degrees

15. Fr Gopu Anand (RIP) An Intuitive

Visionary and a Courageous Pioneer

16. Adhyayan School Evaluation

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Don Bosco Provincial House, Hyderabad,2 to 6 June 2017: Ancient wisdom remindsus that, tomorrow belongs to those whoprepare and plan for it today. Keeping thisin mind, from 2 to 6 June, there were a seriesof planning and evaluation meetings at DonBosco Provincial House, Hyderabad for allthe confreres of the Province.

These meetings started off with theadministrators’ meet on 2 June 2017. Theadministrators of the various housesdiscussed various topics ranging from thenew accounting software, ACME ERP, toannual budgeting. They also had an inputsession by Mr Rosario from the M. Thomasand Co. auditors. Fr Androth Jose, theEconomer ably coordinated the meeting.

On 3 June and on 5-6 June we had thePerpetually Professed confreres meet and theLeaders’ Meet respectively. Both these groupswere animated by Mr Conrad Saldanha. Hepresented to them the results of the Strategicevaluation of the Province. This presentationgave an impe-tus for the con-freres to come

up with fourpriorities for thisscholastic year: 1.God centred life,2.Communion incommunities, 3.Standardizationof our institu-tions, 4. Self sustainability.

We also had the Head Masters’ Meet on June4, where the Heads of the EducationalInstitutions discussed the implementation ofthe XSeed syllabus in all our schools andother partinent issues.

These meetings at the beginning of the yearare a true experience of fraternity. It wasedifying to see that there was great eagernessand willingness on the part of the confreresto plan and move towards a brighter future.

We thank the vice provincial Fr Yeruva Jojiand the communities of the provincial houseand BIRDY for their care in organizing thesefruitful and meaningful meetings.

- BIS Correspondent

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Karunapuram, 19 June 2017: 19 Juneturned out to be a significant day for VishwaJyothi Don Bosco College Karunapuram as itventured into another year of philosophicalresearch and learning with the inaugurationof the academic year.

Holding close to their hearts and minds the prayer “Flood our minds with your light OLord”, the students of the college participatedin the inaugural Eucharistic Celebrationpresided over by Rev. Fr ThathireddyVijayabhaskar in the provincial.

Fr Provincial gave a thought provoking homilyand encouraged the students to be committedin their philosophical research. During theinaugural function, Fr Garlapati Kishore(Rector) reminded the students that, “Wemust be constant learners in the journey ofour lives.”

Rev. Fr Tom Parecattil (Principal) presentedin brief the academic programme of the year2017-2018. He initiated his presentationquoting various heroic personalities who hadthe guts to stand up for worthy causes. Duringhis presentation the principal gave a reportof the performance of the previous academicyear.

Sr Alphonsa Vattoly SCCG, the resource

person in her Key-note address spoke of“Growing in Spirituality and in Academiclearning. She enriched our minds with hervast experience in education and she was ableto keep the attention of all by sharing lifeexamples of her own students. She narroweddown her long reflections to just two points :i) that we need to find God in everything andeveryone and, ii) that we need to let God havehis way in our own lives. Regarding academicexcellence she assured us told that everyoneis capable of achieving the great purpose forwhich one is uniquely chosen. To make thisgrand purpose of each student a reality, shesaid that the student has to be focused anddetermined, and instead of plodding one hasto sprint.

Rev. Fr Thathireddy Vijaybhaskar, thepresident of the day’s programme gave abrief message. He summarized his speech infour points: He thanked the teaching staff whoserved the college in the previous year and

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welcomed the new academic staff; he wishedthe teaching staff and the students ‘all thebest’ as they together began another year ofjourney into finding out and gainingknowledge; taking the example of Don Bosco,he insisted that we need to be courageousenough to become someone great in the

future; and he advised the students to befocused in their philosophical studies and togain as much knowledge as possible so thateveryone may experience and learn themaximum from this academic year. Theinaugural ceremony closed with the singingof the college anthem.- BIS Correspondent

DB MotiNagar shines at the 34 youth National basketball championshipsDB Motinagar,1 July 2017: The hoopstersof Don Bosco School – Motinagar, aged 6 –14 yrs, presented a visual treat and a mindblowing performance at the Inauguralceremony of the 34th YouthNational Champion-ships for boys andgirls at theGachi-bowliI n d o o rS t a d i u m ,Hyderabad.

The NationalChampionships,currently 26 states ofIndia are partiespating,is being organized by the Hyderabad DistrictBasketball Association under the aegis of theTelangana Basketball Association and theBasketball Federation of India. During thisNational event, the little cagers from DonBosco School – Motinagar, made us proud by

showcasing their skills of ball control andprowess. These young students left the wholecrowd at Gachibowli Indoor Stadium,mesmerized and speechless.

The Don BoscoBasketball Academy

at Don Bosco MotiNagar, has beengrowing byleaps andbounds during

the last fewyears. Our Don

Bosco School isproud to be the number

one school team in the wholeof Hyderabad, City. We congratulate thecommunity for the efforts they put intowards the holistic education and growthof the Children at Don Bosco School,Motinagar. - BIS Correspondent

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Karunapuram, 1 July 2017: Vishwa Jyothi,Don Bosco College organized the AnnualPhilosophical Symposium on 1st July 2017,on the theme ‘Marginalization and the Birthof Deconstruction’ at Don Bosco Philosophate,Karunapuram. It was Moderated by Rev. Fr.G. Suman Showry Sdb.

Fr. Anil Sdb introduced the ‘what and why ofthe Symposium on ‘Marginalization and theBirth of Deconstruction.’ The main aim of thesymposium was to apply the idea ofdeconstruction to contemporary Indiawherein we see injustice, inequality,discrimination, racism as the norms of theday. The theme was presented in six paperswhich gave us a broad understanding of themeaning of Deconstruction. It brings to ournotice the world we live in. After eachpresentation there was a discussion, toenhance our idea far and wide. First paperwas presented by Br. Cornelius on ‘JacquesDerrida: Life and History’. Br. Markpresented the second paper on ‘The Story

and History of Deconstruction.’ Br. Bapujipresented the third paper on ‘Origin andMeaning of Deconstruction’. The Fourth paperwas presented by Br. Dominic on‘Responsibilities of Deconstruction’. The fifthpaper was presented by Br. Jagan on ‘TheOperations of Deconstruction’. Sr Metildapresented the sixth paper on ‘Appraisal ofDeconstruction’. Finally the concludingcomments were presented by Fr. Mallavarapu Anil sdb.

He stressed on the preamble of the Indianconstitutions that India is a democraticcountry with the principles of equality, libertyand fraternity...a land of rich diversificationof languages, cultures etc.

It was a great learning experience, throughraising questions and through interaction.Above all we learnt how we could apply thistheory of Deconstruction in society. The wholesymposium invited all present to bring aboutchanges in society and to make it a betterplace. - BIS Correspondent

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Karunapuram, 4to5 July 2017: Vishwa Jyothi DonBosco Philosophate, Karunapuram organized theseminar on Facts and Myths about CharismaticMinistry. The resource person for the seminar wasRev. Fr Benny Svd, a well known charismaticpreacher and presently he is the director of DivineWord Centre at Muthangi. Brother Patrick, alayman, one of the team members of Fr Bennyanimated two sessions. It was a very appropriatetopic for this generation of 21st century to revive the spirit of charismatic ministry inthe Church.

We are living in an era wherein many people see charismatic ministry in the Churchas an emotional blackmail and are very critical about it. They see it as nothing morethan cheating Moreover, many priests, religious and candidates to consecrated lifetoo have wrong notions about Charismatic Ministry. Hence, they do not appreciatethe unique gift of the Holy Spirit to such ministry. To clarify such wrong conceptionsthe seminar in consideration was organized.

The sessions started with the invocation of the Holy Spirit imploring him toovershadow the attendants with his presence and enthuse them with zeal for Christ.In the that presentations followed on the two days Fr Benny dealt with the origin ofthe charismatic mission and went on to explain the history of the charismatic ministryand then ended his session encouraging the brothers to get involved in the ministryof the Holy Spirit. With biblical evidences he showed that it was God the Father whooriginated the charismatic mission as a salvific plan for the entire human race, andit was in and through Jesus the plan was accomplished. He noted sadly that most ofthe priests and religious have forgotten such a mission of the Holy Spirit. Everydisciple of Jesus is called to get involved the in charismatic ministry which entailspreaching the good news, praying, healing, prophesying, performing miracles; inshort doing all types of activities that Jesus did. However, today many priests andreligious have turned towards worldly things like money, power, position, internet,sex, etc. and due to this the Church ministers fail to perform the miraculous worksthat are endowed on them by the Father. In the charismatic ministry it is the HolySpirit who works through the ministers and does wondrous things. It is the powerthat comes from above. The power does not come from the world, from humanbeings but from the Holy Spirit. It is the same spirit who gives different gifts to

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different people. The Bible says that withoutfaith we cannot please God. There aredifferent types of faith, those that aredoctrinal, thematic and expectant faith.Through faith in Jesus we can heal a personwho is physically, mentally and spiritually ill.Faith does miracles. At the end of two daysof animations he posed a question: whetherwe have received the Holy Spirit. If so whyare there no miracles, healings in theirministry? The seminar ended with the

message inviting everyone to be a model like Jesus to the faithful and to carry on their life infidelity as charismatic disciples till the end for Jesus. Through the seminar we came tounderstand the facts and myths about the charismatic ministry and its importance. Theseminar was effective and the fruits of it can be judged from the positive feedbacks. It enlargedour hearts and broadened our minds. - BIS Correspondent

Blood Donation Camp at KarunapuramKarunapuram, 19 July 2017: Blood is meantto Circulate, Pass it Around' and 'You don’tneed to be a doctor to save lives, Just DonateBlood' were the vibes at Viswa Jyothi College,Don Bosco Philosphate, Karunapuram on19th July 2017. The students of Vishwa JyothiCollege donated blood to the Indian RedCross Society, Warangal with the duepermission and exhortation of Rev. Fr TomParecattil, the Principal of Don BoscoPhilosophate. Like in other years a teamfrom Indian Red Cross Society came to collectblood from the college students which will bestored in the blood bank for the poor andneedy.Doing charity to the poor and needy eitherdirectly or indirectly brings a lasting senseof joy and satisfaction. The mere fact offeeling for humanity fills one’s life with peaceand serenity, and enthuses one with hope forthe Kingdom of God. Quite many studentsvolunteered to donate blood with the solefeeling of sharing with the needy. Moreover,some of them followed the example ofJesus who gave his blood to redeem humanity

from sin and thereby opened the gate toeternal life said that they were donating bloodso that some poor people could live theirearthly life a little longer.A charitable act like blood donation is only asign which speaks volumes about the innerstate of the soul of all those volunteers. Maythis act of these students inspire many morepeople to enhance the life of others with theblessings they have received.

- BIS Correspondent

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Karunapuram, 15 July 2017: TheCommunity of Don Bosco PhilosophateKarunapuram inaugurated the MarianMonth, a month dedicated in a specific wayto express our love and devotion to theheavenly Mother and to seek her protectionand guidance in our journey towards her SonJesus. The community anticipated feast ofMt Carmel. The Holy Mass was celebated byRev. Fr Tom Parecattil and in the homily hehighlighted our need to grow in her virtues.He put forth two very fundamental questionsas a challenge for each one of us as we setout to commence the Marian Month. First,why at all do we dedicate an entire monthand do so much in the name of Mary? Second,what are the strategies that we have plannedto make this month fruitful and growing inthe virtues of Mary? The above questions forceone to have a vision, a purpose and missionfor the month and also to plan out thestrategies to achieve the intended gaol. The

entire community was asked to do a gooddeed a day as individuals and to faciliate thisventure each one of us was provided with asheet of paper numbering the dates of theentire Marian month and a coloumn each tokeep record of the good deeds. In the eveningthe community inaugurated the MarianTournament with a short prayer service anda the message from the Rector. Finally, aprayerful and meaningful Rosary Servicewas organized by the Marian group. To keepup the hythm of the Marian month thecommunity also conducted a drawingcompetition in which the brothers took veryactive part. The Marian month will end on14th August and this entire month is filledwill so many activities, all in the name of Marywhich will foster our love and devotiontowards her. The community is veryenthusiastic about the month and we praythat the fire continues to burn.

- BIS Correspondent

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DBPH, Hyd, 17to18 July 2017: we had theYouth Animation Coordinators' and the YoungPriests’ Meet at Don Bosco Provincial House,Hyderabad. The confreres in charge of theYouth Animation of the various communitiesand the young priests ( quinquennium)gathered at the Provincial House, for theseimportant days of renewal and planning.

On 17 July, Fr Anil D’za, the Regional YouthDirector of the Karanataka Region of theSalesians of Don Bosco, Bangalore, ablyanimated and shared his experiences andchallenges in youth animation. It was anenriching experience. In the post lunchsession all the local Youth animationcoordinators of the Province, created anaction plan for the year 2017-2018.It wasinspiring to see all the confreres activelyinvolved and motivated in this most importantarea of Salesian Life – Youth Animation. FrK.T. Jose the Province Youth Director and FrYeruva Joji the Youth Pastoral Delegate of theProvince took the lead to organize andcoordinate this meeting. On 18 July, the youngpriests (quinquennium) from the Provincehad their animation at the Provincial House.The whole day was dedicated to interaction

with Fr Thathireddy Vijaya Bhaskar, theProvincial, Fr Yeruva Joji, the Vice-Provincialand Fr Andhroth Jose, the Economer. Theyoung priests frankly and without hesitationin a spirit of 'Salesian Family,' expressed theirdreams and plans, the concerns and issuesthat they are facing in the variouscommunities. This was also a greatopportunity for these priests in theirquinquennium to come to understand andinteriorize the province priorities and plans.These two days of renewal and planningwere organized well by Fr Joji Yeruva, theVice Provincial. A word of thanks also to theProvincial House community for their effortsin making these meetings and all othersuccessful. - BIS Correspondent

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Ravulapalem: On a scorching summermorning PARA office at Ravulapalem wokeup to the buzz of over 70 young adolescentboys and girls running, playing and chatting.They were Human Rights club members from6 districts. They are part of over 1000 HumanRights Clubs in over 600 government schoolsin the Telugu States of Andhra Pradesh andTelangana. The camp was inaugurated atPARA in Andhra Pradesh by Fr. Ignatius,Director of PARA, in the presence of Fr.Neelam Ratna Kumar from Navajeevan,Visakhapatnam and Mr. Solomon Paul,Director of LAMP, Guntur. A similar campwas held at Ramanthapur, Hyderabad.Children had interface with office bearers ofICPS, CWC, JJB and Childline. Ms. Khatijafrom Amnesty International was a specialinvitee at Ramanthapur. The Camp atRamanthapur was concluded by theTelangana State Women Development andChild Welfare Secretary, Mr. M. Jagadishwar

IAS. The occasion was also the launching anew year for the HR Clubs as they seek tomove beyond the schools to the communitiesat the village panchayat and Mandal or sub-district levels of local self-governance.

Human Rights Clubs (HRCs) are a voluntarygroups of High School students who want toknow and practice Human rights in theirschools and develop a culture of HumanRights there. Each club is guided by a trainedteacher from the school. Mr Ramesh Taritlaand team organise the clubs in AndhraPradesh and Mr Ambedkar Sodabatini inTelangana.

Summer camps and HUMAN RIGHTStogether sound an incredible combination.This is what PARA offered to the students.The club members were thrilled with the 3-day camp that promised to be exciting. Halfthe participants were girls even thoughparents are generally afraid to send them

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fearing for their safety.

This year HRC summer camps were openonly to the Human Rights Club leaders atMandal or sub-district level. They wereoffered 3 days of joyful “out of home” life:filled with fun, games, songs and good food.Human Rights Education and skills wereintegrated into their games and activities,without losing the fun in them.

The camps had all the regular teenagerfriendly items like aerobic exercises, music,party games and camp fires; participantscould be care free, crack jokes, join variouscompetitions, dance to popular tunes andhave all the fun and frolic. The participantsremained fresh, energetic and alert in spiteof almost 17 hour days from 6.00 AM to 11.00PM daily.

Children are creative and are looking forsomething new. Learning “New skills” triggerthe toggle button in the student’s mind. The“Human Rights” element too has an“originality” knocking on the young person’surge to respond to the blatant injustices insociety. This year the focus was on takingthe HR clubs from the school to thecommunity to promote Human Rightspractice and prevent HR violations there.AHuman Rights Club functions through 6 sub

groups. The HR Study group focuses onknowing more about Human Rights. TheMonitoring Group looks out for various waysof practising Human Rights and preventingtheir violations in the school. There is the HRMedia Group that tracks national andinternational HR developments and keeps theclub informed. The HR Culture Groupspreads HR awareness in the school andbeyond. HR Gender Group works for genderequality the in school. And finally there isHR Child Rights Group that focuses on ChildRights and their implementation in the school.

Among the Child Rights, the Right toParticipation is the basis for the working ofthese clubs. The “Right to Participation”arises from 3 Articles of the United NationsConvention on the Rights of the Child. Article12 speaks of the 'Right to be heard.' Article13 speaks of the 'Freedom of Expression' andArticle speaks of the 'Freedom of Association.'

The club conducts monthly meetings and themost urgent report of one of the six groups iscommunicated to the school authorities as apetition from the club. These monthlypetitions and their implementation developa HR culture in the school. They make the

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school, a better school. In this way the HRclub Participates in the “Governance” of theschool by expressing its opinion on the HRstatus in the school.

PARA has established over 1000 HR clubs in600 schools of Andhra and Telengana withover 30,000 students as members. RecentlyPARA has initated steps to connect theactivities of the HR clubs beyond the schoolpremises to the communities where themembers live. These Panchayat HR groupshave gathered at the Mandal or sub-districtlevel and formed the Mandal HR club.Similarly District and state level HR clubshave been formed. The summer camp wasintended to train the Mandal Office bearersof the HR Clubs to initiate HR activities inthe selected Panchayats/Mandals through theexercise of the Right to “Participation”.

72 Mandal office bearers attended thesummer camp organised at Ravulapalem forAndhra region in the first week of June andanother 68 at Ramanthapur for theTelengana region in the fourth week. Theparticipants attended sessions on HumanRights, Child rights, and on leadership. Theywere given inputs on different committeesand their activities in the Panchayats.

The summer camp made the participantsaware of the many HR/CRC violations in thePanchayat like deficient water supply,sanitation, chid-malnutrition, school dropouts, child labour, child marriage, lack ofhealth facilities for children, child mortality,migration, trafficking and so on. These areclichéd topics and the local authorities maynot listen to the petitions of children. So thesummer camp devoted special sessions toexplore different opportunities available tomake the authorities listen to the opinions ofchildren. They wanted to do this through theexercise of the “Right to Participation”. TheHR club members would get their opinionsregistered in the legally established

committees of the Panchayat. Resourcepersons gave a deeper understanding of thisRight to Participation and the functioning ofpanchayats.

The HR Club members residing in thePanchayat would find ways to be acceptedas members in the various committeesfunctioning at the Panchayats or Mandals.The child protection committees at thePanchayats and Mandals are often dormant.The HR members will enter these committees,revive them and carry their opinions throughresolutions passed in these committees to theVillage Sarpanch or the Mandal President.Similarly the HR club girls try to be membersof the “adolescent girls’ committee” or in theAnganwadi committee. All can participate inGrama Sabhas and express their opinionson Human Rights or Child Rights violations.This will increase the Human Rights andChild Rights awareness in the Panchayat orMandal. In this way the HR membersparticipate in the “Governance” of thePanchayats and Mandals. The aim of thecurrent exercise is to make the Panchayatsand Mandals more child-friendly. If thePanchayat or Mandal board members arewilling to listen to children’s opinions andimplement some of them the HR clubs willhave succeeded to some degree in makingthese democratic bodies more CHILDFRIENDLY and more democratic.

- BIS Correspondent

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It is indeed a proud moment in the historyof the Province, as Fr Thomas Pallithanam,Salesian of the Province of St. Joseph,Hyderabad, is the next representative of theRector Major and the General Council at theUnited Nations Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC).

Originally from Kottayam, Kerala, India,where he was born on January 11, 1950. Hehas been part of the Salesian Province ofHyderabad since its inception. He has beenactively involved in advocating and lobbyingat the national and international level infavor of the most needy for over 25 years, asthe Director and the Brain behind, People’sAction for Rural Awakening (PARA) an NGObased at Ravulapalem, Andhra Pradesh. Fr

Pallithanam is currently NationalCoordinator of “Wada Na Todo Abhiyan”, alarge federation of Indian non-governmentalorganizations (NGOs) engaged in monitoringthe activities of the federal and stategovernments, and promoting dialoguebetween civil society and public authorities;he is also the Indian representative of theGlobal Call to Action Against Poverty, aworldwide alliance between numerousplatforms and organizations for combatingpoverty. We as a Province wish FrPallithanam Thomas the very best andpromise him our prayerful support as heshoulders this great responsibility startingSeptember 2017.

- BIS Correspondent

Dr. Fr Jose Maliekal, who is serving theprovince and the church in the two TeluguStates at St. John’s Regional Seminary,Vizag, has successfully published his doctoralthesis: Standstill Utopias: Dalits EncouteringChristianity. This has been a long journey ofpatient reflection, of intellectual durabilityand of divine inspiration. This singular bookexplores the socio-political and religious life-world of the marginalized of Konaseema andtheir predicament in the attempt to promotedignity and freedom vis-a-vis the dominationand destruction. It presents to the readerpathways of a primordial theology ofengagements which also challenges us toexplore further how a new political economy,

moral economy and spiritual impulse cancome together for the creation of a life ofwholeness in the midst of broken fragmentsof society. This scholarly and well documentedresearch speaks volumes about the interestof Fr Maliekal, his intellectual acumen andat the same time his engagement with themarginalized people. We congratulate andappreciate Dr. Fr. Jose Maliekal for thispublication and above all for his interest inexploring areas where very few venture. Weare sure that he will continue to contribute alot towards the growth and formation of theyoung clerics entrusted to his care.

- BIS Correspondent

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Rome, 13 June 2017: Our dear confreres FrPutti Anthaiah and Fr Prakash Maramreddyhave defended successfully their theses atthe Salesian Pontifical University in Rome.

Fr Anthaiah wrote his thesis on the theme of“Community Life and its Relevance in theFormation to Religious Life, with SpecialReference to Fraternal Life in Communityand the GC XXV Documents of the Salesiansof DB.” Here is a gist of the main argumentsof the thesis in Fr Anthaiah’s own words:“Man is a social being. He lives in community.The Church is essentially a faith community;its members are called to live in communion.The religious are called to live thiscommunion radically in following theteaching of Jesus. In this present timecommunity life is facing challenges. So theformation of the candidates to be religiousin a community is important. The twodocuments I studied express the fact thatcommunity life is formative in itself. A goodformation takes place both for initial andongoing formation in the community”. Thetittle of Fr Prakash Maramreddy’s thesiswas “The Integral Spiritual Formation of theYoung with a Special Reference to theCatholic Institutes of Learning in Telugu

Speaking Regions of South India.” FrPrakash summarieses the thesis well in hisown words below: “The situation today posesmany spiritual and moral dangers for theyoung people in choosing the right path fortheir future and to have a commitment infollowing Christ. One of the main focuses ofDon Bosco’s teachings and formation of theyoung people was spiritual formation, whichis testified by his statement ‘to be responsiblecitizens and good Christians’. The presentsituation in the Telugu speaking regions ofSouth India or rather in the whole of India isto produce ‘academic giants and spiritualnothings’. The newness of my study consistsin exploring the possibilities of adapting thecurrent trends and renewing formationmethods in such a way as to bring back thelost spirit and reach out to more youth in theirspiritual formation, thus encouraging themto work towards social and national integrityin India.” The examination board was headedby Prof. Francisco Sanchez from Mexico andwas comprised of Prof. Varghese Kalluvacheland Prof. Shaji Joseph Puykunnel from India.We congratulate our confreres wholehear-tedly on reaching this important milestone

in their lives and rejoice with them.

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Fr Gopu Anand (RIP) - an intuitive visionary and a courageous pioneer“I am the Resurrection and the Life. He whobelieves in me though he die, yet shall he live,and whoever lives and believes in me shallnever die” (Jn 11:17-27).

At 2:27 a.m. on 7 April, 2017, Fr Gopu Anandbreathed his last at Don Bosco Academy,Nalgonda. He was laid to rest on 8 April 2017at Don Bosco Philosophate, Karunapuram.The Salesian Province of Hyderabad willalways feel the absence of this great soul.

Fr Gopu Anand was born on 12 June 1967the fifth of the eight children that MrJoji Reddy and Mrs Veronickammahad. He made his perpetualprofession at St. Michael’s BoysHome Guntur on 30 May 1992 and wasordained priest on 5 August 1996 byBishop Thumma Bala.

Fr Anand – A man of undaunted faith

Where most see problems, he sawpossibilities, where most seedifficulties he saw the Divine Plan. FrAnand always put Christ Jesus at the centreof his life and it is from this unwavering andunflinching trust in Him, that his optimismarose.

Fr Anand – a Charismatic Son of Don Bosco

The love that Fr Anand nurtured for DonBosco and the Salesian Spirit was singular.He also imparted and communicated thissame love to all those who came into contactwith him.

Don Rua when he took up as the firstsuccessor of Don Bosco, made as his plan oflife, these three points:

1) To maintain and develop the workbegun by Don Bosco

2) To follow diligently the methodstaught and practised by Don Bosco

3) To Study and imitate in speech andin action the model offered by Don Bosco.

These three points could also be spoken ofthe life, mission and action plan of Fr Anand.He spoke of Don Bosco on every occasion thatarose and never missed a chance to makeknown. He knew the Salesian traditions welland insisted that they be practiced in thehouses where he lived.

Fr Anand – a courageouspioneer and an intuitivevisionary.

During his 20 years of SalesianPriestly life, he demonstratedtime and again, his intuitivesense of having a vision for themission that was entrusted tohim. His dynamic personality,hardworking nature andoptimism in times of adversity

and challenge have left an indelible markwherever he worked.

He pioneered two major works in ourprovince, Don Bosco Navajeevan,Ramanthapur and Don Bosco Academy,Nalgonda. At the inception these two placeswere deserted, arid and barren landscapes.Fr Anand could see already in these placesan oases filled with life for the poor andabandoned young, surrounded by beautifuledifices and lush green ambience and joyfulcries of the young and their future.

Fr Anand - A man of Tireless Hard work

Don Bosco’s mandate to his sons from hisdeath bed was: Work Work Work. Fr Anandtook this mandate to heart. He never looked

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at work as a burden but as a sweet yoke of.He reminded us of Don Bosco who said, ‘foryou I study, for you I work, for you I live andfor you I am ready even to give my life.’ Heunderstood and presented also to us theredemptive dignity of work. His twenty yearsof tireless zeal wore him out as it did, DonBosco. He breathed his last like Don Bosco,in peace, surrounded by his boys and hisconfreres.

The Ordination Motto of Fr Anand was: ‘Mysoul proclaims the greatness of God, my spiritrejoices in God, my savior’ (Lk 1, 46) Westrongly believe that the spirit of Fr Anandnow truly rejoices in God, our savior. His lifewas a proclamation of the greatness of God.As we thank God for the gift of Fr Anand toour Province we also invite you to pray forhis eternal repose. - BIS Correspondent

One of the priorities of that the Provincehas chosen is the objective evaluation of allour institutions. To this end, from 4 July,we have the team from Adhyayan for theSchool Self Review and Evaluation (SSRE).They have been visiting and evaluating eachone of our Educational Institutions.

This System of Adhyayan’s School Self-Review and Evaluation Diagnostic (SSRE),was designed by Roy Blatchford and SpokeyWheeler. It is informed by internationallyrecognised standards of schooling, and isrooted in years of experience of conductingover 1,000 school audits globally. ThisEvaluation, guides school communities inundertaking their own structured reviewsso that they can evaluate their currenteffectiveness against international bestpractice. The SSRE process enablesaccurate judgments about the school’sperformance in six Key PerformanceAreas (KPAs) of school operation:· Leadership and Management,· Teaching and Learning,· The Child,· The Curriculum,· Community and Partnerships,· Infrastructure and Resources.