National Fortnightly for Christian Leadership April 2011 Vol.1 No.8 ` 15 SMART COMPANIONINDIA Nuclear Dilemma Anna Hazare Romero’s Social Gospel Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil SAMPURNA MONTFORT COLLEGE (Institute of Counselling Psychology) COURSES OFFERED: * Ph.D in Counselling / Clinical Psychology * M.Sc in Counselling Psychology * M.Sc in Psychology * P.G Diploma in Counselling Psychology CERTIFICATE PROGRAMMES * Intensive Training Programme in Basic Skills in Counselling (2nd - 21st May, 2011) * Basic Skills in Counselling – Starting from 3rd September 2011 (25 Saturdays, 2pm – 6pm) * Intensive 1 week Training programmes in (dates to be announced):- - Marriage & Family Therapy - Art Therapy - Child / Adolescent Counselling - Spiritual Counselling COUNSELLING AND CLINICAL SERVICES Sampurna Psychological Services Centre *Individual Counselling / Psychotherapy *Play Therapy *Psychological Assessment *Couples Therapy / Counselling *Family Therapy / Counselling *Career Counselling *Group Therapy Family Counselling Centre This centre is partly supported by Central Social Welfare Board, provides free Counselling services for Children, Adults, Couples and Families Sampurna Montfort College, 184 Old Madras Road, Indiranagar, Bangalore-560038 Tel : + 9180-25283320 / 25284050, Fax +91-80-25280358 E.mail : [email protected] or [email protected] Website : www.sampurnamontfort.com EDITORIAL SAMPURNA MONTFORT COLLEGE Easter in India (Institute of Counselling Psychology) pril 9, Saturday. Jantar Mantar of Delhi, the nerve-centre of the campaign Aagainst corruption was in a festive mood, every one dancing, singing, and drumming. Anna Hazare had just called off his 98-hour hunger strike, by taking a COURSES OFFERED: glass of water from a little girl. It was so Easter-like, a moment of hope and happiness that spread across the * Ph.D in Counselling / Clinical Psychology country and even beyond. In two hundred cities across India, thousands of college * M.Sc in Counselling Psychology students, young executives and housewives had joined the campaign. Since autumn, * M.Sc in Psychology the country was reeling under the heat of blatant corruption. The Commonwealth Games, the 2-G Spectrum deals and Mumbai Flat Deals, saw politicians in their all * P.G Diploma in Counselling Psychology time low, robbing even from war time widows. All these geared up the momentum for people’s rebellion. Clad in white tunic and trousers and a Gandhi cap Anna Hazare told a thousand- strong crowd of supporters, “There would be another campaign, if the law doesn’t get enacted by August 15,” referring to India’s independence day. This victory paralleled with the Easter triumph, but it was not without its Good Friday. About it he says, “I am not scared of death. I have no family to cry over me and if I die while doing something for the country I would be happy.” His long term commitment for social justice landed him often on the way of the CERTIFICATE PROGRAMMES cross. As an ordinary ex-serviceman, he fought against injustice, poverty and depri- * Intensive Training Programme in Basic Skills in Counselling vation which robbed humans their freedom and dignity. “Believe in my works”, he could say, as he changed Ralegaon Siddhi in Maharashtra, his poor home village, into (2nd - 21st May, 2011) a model for development and self-sufficiency. * Basic Skills in Counselling – Starting from 3rd September 2011 In 1995-96, he forced the Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra to drop two cor- (25 Saturdays, 2pm – 6pm) rupt Cabinet Ministers. In 2003, he forced the Congress- NCP coalition to set up an investigation against four ministers. His struggle also led to the implementation of * Intensive 1 week Training programmes in (dates to be announced):- the Right to Information (RTI) bill. - Marriage & Family Therapy - Art Therapy While such Good Fridays and Easters were happening, where were the Indian - Child / Adolescent Counselling - Spiritual Counselling Christians? What role did we play in these social movements? Anna’s fast unto death was organized and supported by INA (India Against Cor- ruption). Among its founding members, was the Delhi Archbishop Vincent M Con- cessao. Others included Anna Hazare, Swami Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravishankar, Mahmood COUNSELLING AND CLINICAL SERVICES Madani, Swami Agnivesh, Kiran Bedi, Justice D S Tewatia, Arvind Kejriwal, Medha Sampurna Psychological Services Centre Patkar… *Individual Counselling / Psychotherapy *Play Therapy But for a few, the Church looked like being among the passive onlookers. Did the Catholic Church of India support this Satyagraha in our cities and dioceses? We do *Psychological Assessment *Couples Therapy / Counselling have a lesson here. Jesus is still being persecuted, made to carry crosses ‘too heavy’ *Family Therapy / Counselling *Career Counselling to bear, stripped off clothes, robbed off dear ones, and left to die in desolation. *Group Therapy Individuals and Institutions have been coming up with initiatives and movements to counteract ‘evil’, spreading its tentacles in multifarious forms. Are we able to watch out and discern such struggles for justice from their Family Counselling Centre budding stage and co-operate with them? Our Christian duty is not only to This centre is partly supported by Central Social Welfare Board, provides free initiate such struggles for justice but also to co-operate with similar struggles in a country where we are a thin minority. Then and then only will Easter become Counselling services for Children, Adults, Couples and Families an experience of liberation for our brothers and sisters. 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