Ever been on Wikipedia to look up an article? More often than not, we start with one topic, click a few links and within no time, are reading about something else. Qwikipedia is a game that tries to quench this curiosity in us. The objective is to get to aContinue Reading

KOCHI: In December 1985, about 1000 people, a vast majority of them youngsters, from all over Kerala met for a conference at the Sacred Heart College, Thevera. The meeting under the banner ‘Jesus Youth Kerala’ was held to formulate wider plans for the Catholic youth in the state such asContinue Reading

Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma was among thousands of people who attended the funeral of legendary Khasi priest Fr Sylvanus Sngi Lyngdoh on May 30. Father Sngi, 95, died two days earlier at Nazareth Hospital, Shillong, Meghalaya state capital. Fr Sngi’s body was taken from Mawlai parish to LaitumkhrahContinue Reading

For three years, Uttar Pradesh farmhand Pradeep Kumar, 24, has been treated for a disease that India largely eliminated 11 years ago: Leprosy, one of humankind’s oldest diseases—is notorious for the visible disfigurement of victims and their subsequent ostracisation. In 1991, when India began economic liberalisation, leprosy was reported inContinue Reading