My respects to my lifelong childhood friend George Fernandes, Ex-Defence Minister of India, on the occasion of his 88th Birthday so kindly celebrated at Mumbai by the Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat, which he founded in 1983, under the aegis of his long-time friend Mr. Justice M.N. Venkatachalaiah, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. My relationship with George Fernandes became possible because his maternal grandmother lived on one side of the road, now known as the Bejai New Road, while I was staying with my parents and sisters on the other side of the same road. Both of us were members of the Altar Server’s Sodality in the St. Francis Xavier Church, Bejai, Mangaluru. At the age of 16, he decided to join the priesthood and became a seminarian at St. Mary’s Seminary for one and half year and then at St. Peters Seminary for one year, both …
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