By M L Satyan Bengaluru, April 19, 2023: Last week an NGO director in Tamil Nadu sent me a news clipping. It said that in just one day three young girls were missing in Ramanathapuram district of the southern Indian state. The report mentions about the network of human traffickers,Continue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Nov 22, 2022: Srinivasan Jain, the popular TV anchor with NDTV, has done a tremendous service to the Constitution of India and thereby, to the people of India. In a hard-hitting exposé on his weekly segment ‘Truth vs Hype,’ released November 19, Jain talks about theContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Nov 11, 2022: The Supreme Court ON November 7, with 3-2 majority, upheld the constitutional validity of the 103rd Constitution Amendment 2019, which provides for 10 percent Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) reservation among the forward castes. Soon after this, the five-judge Constitution bench was toldContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, Oct 8, 2022: A 25-year old unmarried woman, who was 22-weeks pregnant from a consensual relationship, petitioned the Delhi High Court for permission to terminate her pregnancy. The woman contented that that her partner refused to marry her at the last minute, and that “havingContinue Reading
By Aiborlang Nongsiej Shillong, Sept 14, 2022: Has Christianity destroyed our culture? This is the question often asked by many during my school and college days. Teachers and lecturers have also often stated that Christianity has destroyed many of our cultures in Northeast India. The arrival of Christianity in theContinue Reading
BY M L Satyan Bengaluru, Sept 9, 2022: Devadasi literally means “God’s female servant,” where according to the ancient Indian practice, young pre-pubertal girls were ‘married off’, ‘given away’ in matrimony to God or local religious deity of the temple. These girls were not allowed to marry, as they wereContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 30, 2022: Today human body can be considered a ‘treasury’. It is a living factory that can manufacture products that no laboratory can recreate. From kidneys to hair, to eggs, sperm and blood, many body parts can be sold through both legal and illegalContinue Reading
By Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil Guwahati, August 25, 2022: The Commission for Vocation, Seminaries, Clergy and Religious, North East India Regional Bishop’s Council held a two-day meeting in Guwahati to review training of future priests and religious in the region. Commission chairman Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil presented the findings ofContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, July 14, 2022: Today Aarey is in danger, tossed and turned by political parties only for their personal greed. They are all set to sell it to builders to develop Mumbai into a concrete jungle. Aarey Forest, or Aarey Milk Colony and Aarey Colony, is aContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, June 24, 2022: It is ‘Laity Sunday’ once again on June 26. A time for the Church once again to introspect and to see whether the much flaunted ‘lay collaboration’ actually exists in reality or not! In a highly clerical and patriarchal Church, which has stubbornlyContinue Reading