In the last months of his life, Stan Swamy was in the news for all the wrong reasons—starting with what he firmly maintained was his wrongful arrest and detention as a co-accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case, to being denied a sipper tumbler in prison, which he requestedContinue Reading

By: Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Our hypnotized brains keep on doing one thing all through our waking hours and that is binge thinking, opines a Divine Word Missionary priest, Ittoop Panikulam, a counselor and psychotherapist, presently the director of Dhyan Kutir (a house of meditation), Mumbai. He considers this inbuilt habit asContinue Reading

A new book about the Jesuits celebrates 500 years of the Society of Jesus, as seen through the eyes of its first Latin American Father General, Father Arturo Sosa SJ: Walking with Ignatius: A Celebration of the Society of Jesus. Consisting of a series of interviews with Spanish journalist DarioContinue Reading

By C M Paul Darjeeling: Living in Darjeeling, a place connected to Mother Teresa’s ‘call within the call,’ I find the latest book ‘Mother Teresa, The Saint and Her Nation’ a fascinating reading as it offers hitherto unknown information about the saint. In the present work Gëzim Alpion probably theContinue Reading

Meraki: My Dark Inklings by Reshmi Rose Tom is a book of poetry full of teenage passions, unrequited love of a restless heart baring pathos of longing and betrayal. In deed, time is a bitch, she says! True to its title, Meraki (passion) poems encase teenage girl’s first love, passionateContinue Reading

Guwahati: Creative Fidelity in Mission is a book of reflections for a personal retreat in Covid Times. It is authored by motivational speaker and popular retreat preacher Salesian Fr. V.M.Thomas Vattathara of Guwahati province. The 260 page book by former president of Conference of Religious India and former Chancellor ofContinue Reading

Author: Rasil Ahuja Released: November 23, 2020 Pages: 183 Publisher: Penguin By Neil Binoy The swelteringly hot environment of the Delhi suburbs seems like an unlikely setting for an epic 183-page drama to unfold, but it is what it is. Rasil Ahuja has outdone herself bringing her real-life twelve-year-old dilemmaContinue Reading