New Delhi: The Supreme Court may have paved the way for passive euthanasia in terminal cases by allowing ‘living wills’, but in a country where religious ramifications hang heavy on an individual’s daily life, can the question of when and how to die be exempt? A living will is aContinue Reading
By Meenakshy Menon Kochi: Kadannu varu kadannu varu, sambharam kudikku’, (Come in and have buttermilk). This phrase can be heard spoken loudly near the CSI Immanuel Cathedral near Marine Drive in Kochi, Kerala. Soon, a large crowd would gatherto have the traditional drink. The Family Care wing of the ChurchContinue Reading
Pushpanjali speaks about her inter-caste love marriage as if it is a living storyContinue Reading
Snehakkoodu is the first co-ordinated, centralised facility that has been set up with the state government’s involvement.Continue Reading
Patna: A task that should have been initiated at the level of the government or NGOs operating in the region is being implemented by grooms. Grooms in Bihar have set off on a mission to save the environment, and they’re using various innovative ideas. This was clearly on display onContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Sister Cynthia Mathew, a member of the Congregation of Jesus, is working as NGO representative at United Nations, New York, since November 2017. Earlier, she practiced as a lawyer in the High Court of Patna and District Court of Buxar in Bihar state. She also directed anContinue Reading
With the sun perched firmly above his head, 10-year-old Shahjahan is busy scrounging for bottles and plastic on the top of the several metres high Ghazipur landfill site. He goes to school, he says, but is here because it is a holiday. This monstrosity of a garbage dump, that getsContinue Reading
Saji Thomas Kanta Parbat Makwana had only stories of rejection and hopelessness to tell until members of a congregation of Catholic nuns entered her life. The 90-year-old Hindu widow says she wanted to end her life, but her religious upbringing had held her back. “I no more think of deathContinue Reading
By Ariel Sophia Bardi Chandigarh: A few years ago, Tanu Sharma’s father was planning to marry her off as soon as she completed her high school studies. Now, that she has completed her high school, Suresh Kumar wants her to pursue her education and supports whatever she decides to become.Continue Reading
By Philip Mathew Chennai: Sr. Josephine Amala Valarmathi was not surprised when she got a telephone call around midnight in the last week of October 2016. On the other end was a fisherman who goes by the name Veerghese. He was among 15 fishermen from the southeastern Indian state ofContinue Reading