Every year, during Ramzan, certain areas turn into food joints in every city and town across Kerala. We take a stroll along some of them. The holy month of Ramzan is not just about fasting and prayer, but also a period when food lovers get a chance to indulge inContinue Reading
By Nilima Pathak Nestled away in a small Indian town, a church attracts tourists eager for a glimpse into the life of a remarkable 18th-century woman. Sardhana is a small and dusty town, about 100 kilometres from India’s capital New Delhi and southwest of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. Even thoughContinue Reading
Bishop Sebastian Francis’ family came from Thrissur in KeralaContinue Reading
Violence in June seems to overshadow the Bhim Army’s grassroots education project for DalitsContinue Reading
Dhyan Kutir provides a place for interiority and integration in a world of conflictsContinue Reading
By Rita Joseph Noida: An unusual commotion outside her school in 2005 brought Sr. Celine Arikkat out of her principal’s office. What the Franciscan Clarist Congregation nun saw appalled her. Some people were thrashing a cycle-rickshaw taxi driver while a crowd, including the man’s friends, watched. No one dared toContinue Reading
The Kachin violence has displaced more than 100,000 peopleContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Thrissur: In early February, Sajeena Ahmed took her 7-month-old boy to a Catholic hospital in Thrissur, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, to meet Sr. Merlin Joseph. The child was born with Down syndrome, a genetic condition causing low muscle tone, small stature and low toContinue Reading
The 90-billion-rupee scheme aims to achieve an Open Defecation-Free (ODF) India before October 2, 2019Continue Reading
Saba Naqvi Pushpa M. Bhargava is the founder-director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad and is seen as the architect of modern biology in India. The former vice-chairman of the National Knowledge Commission was summoned to give evidence before a committee set up by theContinue Reading