By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec. 29, 2018: Meet India’s army of manual scavengers who operate in that twilight zone maintaining drains, sewers, septic tanks, railway tracks all with their bare hands without any protective gear or masks. Not to mention that they also carry and dispose of human excreta.Continue Reading
By Cithara Paul Kochi, Dec. 26, 2018: When he became pontiff in 2013, Pope Francis chose not to move to the Apostolic Palace, the official papal residence; he remained in a humble guest house where he had been staying earlier. He has his meals at the guest house, which isContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Dec. 21, 2018: Not long back the headline “India is the most dangerous country for women” caught our attention. Today the headlines speak of India’s dismal ranking in the Gender Gap report for 2018. Standing at 108, 60 slots below our poor neighbor Bangladesh, despite theContinue Reading
Ram Puniyani Beginning with Mohammad Akhlaq, whose mob lynching left the country shocked, to Junaid, a young teenager who was stabbed, cow and beef have become weapons of mass destruction. Most recently, cow slaughter was at the center of Bulandshahr violence which claimed the lives of two men, one aContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani The scene of violence in the name of emotive issues has been continuously throwing new patterns of instigating and orchestrating violence. In recent times we saw the major violence following the demolition of Babri Mosque (1992), Godhra train burning (Gujarat carnage 2002), murder of a Swami (KandhamalContinue Reading
Christian Dalits are worse off than their Hindu counterparts as the former do not have the benefit of the constitutional measures though they are subject to the deprivations, discriminations and indignities.
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By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec. 14, 2018: It is that time of the season once again—not to revel in the yuletide season and new year bashes but to duck under the swarm of pollutants along with poisonous gases in the very air we breathe. Parts of the country areContinue Reading
# Chhotebhai Dec: 13, 2018: “Pappu Can’t Dance Saala” was a hit song from the 2008 Bollywood movie “Jaane Tu ya Jaane Naa”, a cute romantic comedy featuring the fresh faced Genelia D’Souza and the boy next door Imran Khan. It was also the title of another movie with theContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, Dec. 12, 2018: The worst is not over for India’s religious minorities, its Dalits and its farmers despite the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failing to retain its governments in some of the most populous and vast heartland states of the Union in the legislative assemblyContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ The brutal murder of Inspector Subodh Kumar and another local youth in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr on 3 December says it all. Inspector Kumar was killed by a right-wing mob in the context of an ‘allegation’ of some ‘illegal cow slaughter’. Nothing has been proved until date;Continue Reading