Soda Village: As the sun begins to set on the village of Soda in western India, Chhavi Rajawat walks through the dusty streets, stopping to chat with residents who emerge from the wooden doorways of their homes to greet her. Folding their hands together and bending to touch 39-year-old Rajawat’sContinue Reading
His father had sent him to a Teresa center in KolkataContinue Reading
by Philip Mathew Kottayam: Sr. Thresiamma Mathew is a women’s rights activist and an advocate of gender equality. She has helped some 2,500 women from economically poor families to become professional masons when it was unthinkable to employ female masons in her home state of Kerala, southern India. Mathew joinedContinue Reading
Sixty years ago this nation was the richest and the most educated nationContinue Reading
Vikram Vinod Never afraid of speaking his mind, Valson Thampu’s forthcoming book is likely to blow away quite a few reputations Trained theologian, certified anti establishment figure and contro versial educator, the reverend Valson Thampu believes in fully inhabiting the present. Currently living a semi-retired life in Thiruvananthapuram, Thampu assuresContinue Reading
Madam G. Naggammal Koh, 67, grew up in an Indian family after she was given up for adoption as an infant by her Chinese parents.Continue Reading
Yetnebersh Nigussie shares the award with India’s Colin Gonsalves and Khadija Ismayilova of AzerbaijanContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Cherupuzha: Sister Jisha Jiya is the first Catholic woman religious in India to direct and produce a feature film. The 39-year-old Medical Sister of St. Joseph made the film “Ente Vellithooval” (“My Silver Feather”) in Malayalam, the language of the southern Indian state of Kerala, where sheContinue Reading
God’s grace and the prayers of the people are helping meContinue Reading
He is the first Kerala BJP leader in the Modi CabinetContinue Reading