Odisha’s “compassionate” Polish missionary remembered
Father Zelazek spent five years in a German concentration campContinue Reading
Father Zelazek spent five years in a German concentration campContinue Reading
Paradip: Priests of a 1000-year-old temple in Odishas Jagatsinghpur district have stopped performing puja of two wheelers if the riders are not equipped with helmets. The management of the temple of Goddess Maa Sarala abiding by police instructions started implementing the ?no helmet-no puja? policy a month ago by refusingContinue Reading
Monalisa Das Bengaluru: For the past three months, members of Maraa, a Bengaluru-based media and arts collective, have been going around with a purse collecting stories of sexual harassment from students in the city. Called ‘Radio in a Purse’, the initiative gives youngsters a platform to their share experiences, testimonials,Continue Reading
India’s Save The Girl Child campaign seeks to end the barbaric practice of femicide in India. According to The New York Times, over the past several decades, 300,000 to 700,000 female fetuses have been selectively aborted in India each year. In support of the initiative to end this widespread abuse,Continue Reading
Kochi: Sabu Caiter’s dwelling at Edappally is more than just a home for his family. It houses a slice of 83 countries across the globe, a rare record, which made his the way to the Limca Book of Records. His collection of rosaries numbering 50,000 has set a world record.Continue Reading
Hundreds of government schools, especially in tribal-dominated districts, have been shut down over the past year.Continue Reading
By Smita Nayak Jharsuguda: A Catholic priest with tribal roots in Odisha bemoan that his people remain unaware of their rights and entitlement despite technology and digital revolution in India. “Despite all hype of such revolution, tribals of Odisha hardly know about their rights, government schemes and policies that areContinue Reading
An all-woman band is shattering stereotypes of gender and caste in a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, among the poorest and least developed in the country. The Sargam Mahila (woman) Band in Dhibra village near state capital Patna, was set up about two years ago by SudhaContinue Reading
The sisters in Kerala have already been doing what the pope had exhorted the church to doContinue Reading
By VINDU GOEL and SUHASINI RAJ ALIGARH — Signs and banners for Paytm, India’s biggest digital payments service, festoon Pooran Singh’s cellphone shop, where people drop in all day to add data or talk time to their prepaid phones. Yet few of these people actually use Paytm at the store,Continue Reading
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