Nidheesh M.K. I like them (the Communists). But I don’t agree with everything that they say.” So has he ever voted for the Communist party, something very unlikely for a Christian priest? “Oh, that’s another story,” responded the large old man sitting in front of me in a priest’s cassock—theContinue Reading

Jason Keith Fernandes is an anthropologist from Goa. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology at the University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. After completing a bachelor’s degree in law at the National Law School of India, Bangalore, he obtained a master’s degree in theContinue Reading

By Santosh Digal Father Biju Mathew (Joseph) MI belongs to the Camilian religious congregation. He works with Camillian ministry initiatives across India and Camillian Disaster Service International, in Nepal. He is based in Bengaluru, South of India, Karnataka. He acted as Jesus in the short movie ‘The Word’ which isContinue Reading

Andrew Infanger  went to Mass every Sunday, studied at parochial schools and spent part of several summers at a camp run by Benedictine monks. He earned his bachelor’s degree in theology at a small Catholic university. Still, he never really considered himself a model Christian or pious enough to become a memberContinue Reading

by Zain Awan He has lived in India under all its prime ministers, right from Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. Four months after K Asif’s magnum opus, Mughal-e-Azam, hit the silver screens, this man, then a teenager, landed in India. As his plane descended into Dum Dum Airport, the air-conditioned atmosphereContinue Reading