THE UNTOLD STORY OF IRISH AMERICAN JESUITS WHO DEDICATED THEIR LIVES IN SERVICE OF INDIA'S NEEDY POPULATION, CONTRIBUTINGSIGNIFICANTLY IN BRINGING WORLD CLASS EDUCATION TO SOME OF THE MOST UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY.

Shades Of The Tamarind Tree is a heart-warming memoir written in the backdrop of a Jesuit Boarding School in India in the 1960s.
The story had an obscure prelude with Pope Benedict VI issuing the Apostolic letter Nova in Indies for establishing a diocese in Patna, India. The sacred task trickled down to the Jesuits of Missouri province in the USA.Four years later, in 1921, the first batch of American monks arrived in Bihar's capital city, Patna, after undertaking an arduous SO-day sea journey from Boston,

Within a short time, events moved fast in the wake of the "first-five" going to work with seemingly boundless energy. With several parishes and schools coming up across far-flung areas of...