Cruise Ship Diaries – Seven

The eight group of around 180 visitors from Germany visited our Village on 12th and 13th February 2017. These tourists have been coming to Mumbai by Cruise Ships starting from  Dubai, then travelling to Mumbai, New Mangalore, Goa, Muscat, Abu Dhabi and then back to Dubai. They had come by the Cruise Ship “Aida Aura”. Their …

Christmas Festivities – Christmas Tree – Part One

The Managing Committee of the Holy Cross Oratory and the Residents’ Welfare Association ALM worked in unison to decorate the many by lanes of Matharpacady Village with illuminative decorative symbols of stars, Christmas trees, hearts, hexagonal and triangular shaped illustrative lanterns fitted with mini loudspeakers. Our youth creatively put up the Crib in the Holy …

Christmas Festivities in Matharpacady – Thanksgiving Service

The Managing Committee of the Holy Cross Oratory and the Residents’ Welfare Association ALM worked in unison to decorate the many by lanes of Matharpacady Village with illuminative decorative symbols of stars, Christmas trees, hearts, hexagonal and triangular shaped illustrative lanterns fitted with mini loudspeakers. Our youth creatively put up the Crib in the Holy …

Christmas Festivities in Matharpacady – Carol Singing

The Managing Committee of the Holy Cross Oratory and the Residents’ Welfare Association ALM worked in unison to decorate the many by lanes of Matharpacady Village with illuminative decorative symbols of stars, Christmas trees, hearts, hexagonal and triangular shaped illustrative lanterns fitted with mini loudspeakers. Our youth creatively put up the Crib in the Holy …

Tourist Guide Association of Mumbai

On Monday, 8th June 2015 around 35 persons from TOGA, The Tourist Guide Association of Mumbai visited our village at around 8.30 am. They were welcomed by the committee members of the Matharpacady Residents Welfare Association and the Holy Cross Oratory. Julius Valladares and Hansel Baptista took them around the village precinct and explained the …

Telegames – 7th June 2015 – Matharpacady Village

The Matharpacady Residents Welfare Association is organising the “Matharpacady Monsoon Dhamal” on Sunday, 7th June 2015 from 4.00 pm onwards at the St. Isabel’s High School grounds. Invitation passes are available with Canute, Stanley, Prince, Merwyn, Benny & Frumie. It will be an evening of fun & frolic with Telegames being organised, in addition to …

Visitors from USA visit Matharpacady Village

  Around 20 tourists from both east and west coasts of USA visited our Village on Saturday, 28th February 2015 at around 11.00 am. They were taken around the village by Hansel Baptista. A brief talk alongwith a walk around the village was conducted by Hansel. The significance of our Holy Cross Oratory was explained …

Time Limit Set for Registering Documents – Times of India 15th August 2014

Aug 15 2014 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Time limit set for registering documents – Clara.Lewis@timesgroup.com From solemnization of marriage, registration of documents to appeal against orders determining the market value of a plot, the state government has now set a time frame within which services are to be delivered to citizens.

Mid-Day – Bunga-lows and highs

Built in the 1950s in what is known as the ‘original Immaculate Conception (IC)’ colony, DX Vaz House in Borivali stands tall more than 60 years later. Talking about his bungalow, Schubert Vaz, a musician by profession says, “My father and three of his musician friends bought land in Borivali around India’s Independence, when the …