By Gilda Rose Kalathil Penang, March 24, 2020: What we are going through is no less than a war. People are fighting, dying, winning, losing, helping, backstabbing, clever, wicked, stupid, foolish, insistent, cooperating, manipulating and unsupportive. You name it, they are there. Just like war times but in the healthContinue Reading
By James Martin New York, March 24, 2020: Last summer I underwent radiation treatment. And every time I passed through the doorway marked “Radiation Oncology,” my heart seemed to skip a beat. While I was in little danger (my tumor was benign, and, yes, one sometimes needs radiation for that),Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, March 23, 2020: My long-pending personal dream seems to have come true. All the worship places such as temple, mosque, gurudwara and church are closed all over India. This is the same case in other countries too. What a scenario! I am happy that itContinue Reading
By Robin David New Delhi, March 21, 2020: The Preamble to our Constitution and Articles 25 and 26 dealing with freedom of religion guarantee equality to all individuals and groups irrespective of their beliefs American statesman and prominent attorney Daniel Webster once said, “Justice is the greatest interest of manContinue Reading
Most Rev. Joseph D’Souza March 21, 2020: One of the reasons why Jesus’ call to follow him attracts people so strongly is that he accepts the whole gamut of a person’s humanity — from the unique DNA code that makes some of us tall and others short to our language,Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, March 21, 2020: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech to the nation on the spread of coronavirus sounds quite ‘silly’ and ‘childish’ to me. The reasons are given below: First of all, he has not announced any ‘welfare or relief measure’ that will benefit the commonContinue Reading
By James Kottoor Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian thinker, coined the term “Global Village” in the 1960s. He was highlighting the results of the coming of internet, which wiped out totally and instantly the distances of space and time – space to the shouting distance of a ‘village’ and time toContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, March 19, 2020: A question for the doctors here. Isn’t the incidence of flu as prevalent in India (a relatively warm country) as in colder countries and since coronavirus is a new strain in that family of viruses, why would Indians end up ultimately experiencing aContinue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, March 17, 2020: Many a time bad events in our lives open up new opportunities. They also teach us life-changing lessons. The dreaded Coronavirus, which the United Nations has declared a worldwide pandemic, has opened up for India at least two distinct opportunities: (1) ToContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, March 15, 2020: In the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) UN High Commissioner, Michele Bachelet, has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court petition challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment Act, as she is critical of CAA. Responding to her, India’s Foreign Minister S.Continue Reading