An evening with Bishop Minz and Paracleta. These are one of the first people to welcome us in 2016. I had know idea who they were then, but they were eager to meet the descendents of Ferdinand Hahn who put the Kurukh language into writing. He is a greatly honored man in Jharkhand, not only for his leadership in the church and in education for Adivasi but also for being active in the Jharkhand movement. Now in his 90s and his wife suffering Parkinsons disease, they were so eager to see my book and also to experience the hundred year jubilee of autonomy of the Gossner church in a couple of days. He wrote a few songs in Kurukh for the occassion.
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I am very happy that through you we are able to see and hear our forefathers in videos and their voice. I thank you very much from the heart that you heard our words and wrote our stories and have preserved it. Today we are able to see Doctor Nirmal Minj, so it is a very good fortune for us. Bishop Minj's contribution is like a boon for Kurukh language and literature and we cannot forget it for centuries. Thank you, Lord God bless you.