By Danuska Da Gama Panaji, April 7, 2019: The tenth successor of Don Bosco, Rector Major Ángel Fernández Artime was in Goa. The head of more than 15,000 Salesians the world over spent time with youngsters while visiting the Panaji Province. It wasn’t the first time Father Artime visited India.Continue Reading
By Philip Mathew Puducherry, March 29, 2019: Sister Irudayam Augusta watches closely as some 40 women move their hands to create exquisite embroidery on clothes in a historic 1774 building. Augusta, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, and two of her sister colleagues manage the ClunyContinue Reading
Shimla, Mar. 29, 2019: When Shyam Saran Negi exercised his franchise in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district in 1951, he created history by becoming Independent India’s first voter. More than 60 years on, he is a VIP of sorts as there is full media glare whenever he goes out to vote.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Berhampur, March 24, 2019: As a child, Sukria Nayak had struggled with a nagging doubt, “Can I compete with others?” The reason: He was a Dalit who lived in a remote village in Odisha, eastern India. “Coming from a village, studying in a school and thenContinue Reading
RAKHI BOSE Satna, Mar. 25, 2019: Even as the fate of her community’s future hung in the balance, Sijaran Pardhi defied the dread and the cold, and made her way to Mahatma Gandhi College in Satna at Madhya Pradesh. A little older than most in her BA-first year class, sheContinue Reading
Sahana Ghosh Puri, Mar. 21, 2019: For close to 20 years after a supercyclone ravaged Odisha, a group of women along the coast has been standing sentinel over their beloved storm-shielding forest and mangrove cover. Deftly swinging and beating their sturdy bamboo sticks, 75 women in Gundalba village in theContinue Reading
by Saji Thomas Kuravilangad, March 11, 2019: As the Vatican grapples to devise stronger protocols and responses following a historic summit focused on clergy sex abuse of minors, five nuns in India complain of church repression for their support of a former superior general who was allegedly raped by aContinue Reading
By Damian Carrington March 3, 2019: Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01 percent of all living things, according to theContinue Reading
By Rahul Karmakar Guwahati, March 3, 2029: The Indian Army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF) have never had a problem deploying them to protect the country’s borders. However, these battle-hardened men from a western Assam village have struggled for years to overcome aContinue Reading
New Delhi, Fe 24, 2019: After realizing that proper education is a distant dream for his soon-to-be born child, Ahmed Ali decided not to let the coming generation suffer in privation and penury. The rickshaw-puller from Karimganj district Assam has built nine schools, ever since he envisioned the need forContinue Reading