By Matt Sedensky Greensburg, Pennsylvania: The nuns’ daily email update was overtaken by news of infections. Ambulances blared into the driveways of their convents. Prayers for the sick went unanswered, prayers for the dead grew monotonous and, their cloistered world suddenly caving in, some of the sisters’ thoughts were halting.Continue Reading

By Deepa Alexander Chennai: Hero of the famed nursery rhyme, part of Passion week lore… In Chennai, the hot cross bun is flavored by Anglo-Indian, Vietnamese and English recipes. “The van used to draw up just around 11 in the morning, when the Stations of the Cross got over,” recallsContinue Reading

By Harish Damodaran New Delhi: A 100 percent solar-powered battery-less cold store that can preserve around 2 tons of freshly-harvested produce at 3-4°C during the day and 8-12°C at nighttime. A technology for imparting elasticity and structural strength to bajra and maize dough, making their chapattis as soft as fromContinue Reading

By Nikhil George Joseph Kochi: At a time when the mainstream society of Kerala could not have in its wildest dreams imagined nuns working outside their convents, Sisters Redempta and Naveena of the Sisters of the Destitute (SD) chose to take up the audacious task of living their religious commitmentContinue Reading