The East Indians of Bombay

Singing Competition is East Indian is one of the big days in the East Indian Calendar. While most villages that are predominantly East Indian try their best to celebrate this on their local Parish Church Feast day. East Indians would make the time to go to their neighbouring village to celebrate the feast day by attending the Singing Competition.

With the dwindling of open spaces to have such functions the Church Grounds are generally the venue. Recently many Churches have started refusing to give these venues, giving frivolous reasons. This inspite of the historic knowledge that most of these Churches stand on donated lands of the East Indians.

This coupled with general laws being made and applied to East Indian gatherings have reduced the number of East Indian Singing Competitions. The fervor of the East Indian to be recognised as a native community has re-ignited the East Indian Singing Competition and East Indian Concerts.