By Joan Chunkapura Kottayam, Nov 7, 2022: When I started to work with people with addictions, I heard many comments about it being an unimportant and useless service field. Yet I felt it was more meaningful and had more of a sense of connectedness to human beings than working inContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Nov 6, 2022: The bridge collapse at Morbi in Gujarat can be considered as a blackspot in the Indian history. A century-old suspension bridge, a tourist attraction in Gujarat’s Morbi town, over the Machchhu river collapsed, leaving more than 140 people dead. As many asContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Oct 23, 2022: India today, is enveloped in darkness! As the nation embroils itself from one issue to another, the burden is felt by the ordinary citizen, as never before and in more ways than one. Fascism throttles the country; at this juncture, one cannot help,Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Oct 20,2022: In February 2017, I was in Rome to attend the marriage of my niece to an Italian. The nuptials were held in the church of San Giuseppe Dei Falegnami constructed above the Prigione Dei SS Apostoli Pietro e Paolo, near the Roman Forum. This isContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Oct 12, 2022: In our daily life we ask a “mechanical question” – How are you? – and we give a “mechanical answer” – “Fine”, “I am keeping fine”, “I am doing wel.” Is our answer true? It may be true for 5 percent ofContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, Oct 10, 2022: Few parishes in Delhi or in India are visualized to look after the spiritual needs of the faithful, be they Indians and foreigners, who would be coming from institutes such as Indian Institute of Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University and All India InstituteContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Oct 10, 2022: The fisherfolk in Vizhinjam, a village 20 km south of Thiruvananthapuram, capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala are now into the third month of their struggle against a seaport project of the Adani business group. They want the international portContinue Reading
By Sunny Sebastian Jaipur, Oct 5, 2022: They are back! The effigies of the wicked who symbolize aggression, greed, enmity and hatred, are back, ready for their trial by fire. They will surely meet their fiery end on Dussehra. They are there, Ravana, Kumbakarna and others, all lined up waitingContinue Reading
By Hilda Mary Bernath Peru, Oct 4, 2022: Being one with nature, we are happy to praise God the Almighty — the creator who is also our protector. We thank God by taking care of our Mother Earth, protecting and nurturing her. We praise and love God by taking careContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Oct 3, 2022: Many fear that India is fast moving towards being a Hindu Rashtra (nation). If that would happen, would India turn out to be another theocratic country in the world? Should we be concerned? Maybe one should begin by learning lessons from theContinue Reading