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Fr. Britto Joseph S.J. - Empowering Health Care

Meet my first Guru who reignited my latent passion in nature consonant medicine. Fr. M. Britto Joseph s.j. a Jesuit Priest, belonging to the Madurai Province, is credited with evangelizing and proselytizing Naturopathy and Homoeopathy in India. Affordable and safe health-care has always been a need and it still continues to be a necessity for the majority of the population (middle-class and rural) in India, a country where  major share of one’s earning is spent on housing and food, savings are meager, often liquidated by medical and hospitalization expenses.  Families often end up in huge debt.   A country that enjoys a rich heritage medicine system in the form of Ayurveda and Naturopathy is today a victim of lifestyle diseases that is only burdening the existing inadequate health-care facilities in India.   It is against this background we can come to appreciate the value of Fr. Britto’s mission. Fr. Britto has done a yeoman service through his mission to make people

The Future Was Always Here! a short story by Valerian Mendonça

Year 2025 ‘Shooting Star’ is on its first ever inter-galactic expedition. Two years later, the spacecraft encounters a black hole and the galactic flux causes a major malfunction and it loses contact with the base station.  With all controls lost, it is free floating – aimless, perhaps directed by the forces of the Universe.   Until eventually, one day, the craft along with the crew and passengers are rescued by the inhabitants of a distant planet, Carbonium, more than 1500 light years away, beyond the Orion nebula.   Read on and be a part of the survivors’ exciting discovery of a new life form and their amazing medical science.   Would they ever return to planet Earth? Find out!  Click to get your copy: The Future Was Always Here! Follow @vally_mendonca Tweet #TFWAH

Mystic Woods - A project by Butterfly Conservatory Of Goa

It took us some time locating the place. The many locals and shops within few kilometers radius looked amused when we asked them for the address of Butterfly Park.  They never heard of it and probably couldn’t imagine that something like this exists in Goa. Southern Birdwing Butterfly - Largest in India The Butterfly Conservatory of Goa is an altruistic project initiated by wife-husband team – Dr. Jyoti Heblekar, a Homeopath  & Yashodan alias Rohit Heblekar  to ward off rampant cutting of hills surrounding their dwelling at Pisgal Priol, near  Ponda, Goa.  They wanted to retain the scenic view around so they decided to set-up the conservatory. We were captivated by the sheer natural un-sculpted greenery around.  The sound of rustling leaves, the burbling water flowing down narrow streams, the chirping birds, all orchestrated to make blissful music. As Rohit took us around  he asked us “Do you know why we don’t see any butterflies in cities these days?” He t