By Frederick Noronha Panaji, April 28, 2020: They have been called the “schoolmasters of Europe.” For decades, if not centuries, this religious order has played a key role in exchanging information, about science and plants, between India and Europe. At times, they were conservatives, and at other times, they haveContinue Reading

Matters India Reporter Rome, 22 March 2020 — A 250 page book presenting the worldwide Salesian Family lists 32 groups with a total of 2,51,159 (two lakh fifty nine thousand one hundred fifty nine) members. The book published in 6 languages (Italian, French, English, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish) with numerousContinue Reading

Darjeeling, March 15, 2020 — A book launch in Darjeeling brought together some 50 literati in the hills in spite of the impending threat of pandemic COVID 19 virus and West Bengal Government ordered shut down from 16 to 31 March. The event was held at the recently renovated iconicContinue Reading

Author: Joseph Vellaringatt, SJ Media House, Delhi INR 320 The book ‘An Introduction to Hinduism’ is primarily addressed to Christians. But people belonging to other religions also can draw much profit from it. The purpose of writing this book is to free the followers of other religions, especially Christians, fromContinue Reading

By Teesta Setalvad “By Ram Rajya I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ramarajya Divine Raj, Khuda ki Basti or the Kingdom of God on Earth” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[1] At the heart of the visceral animosity that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Hindu Mahasabha (HMS) and all theContinue Reading

By Neil Binoy New Delhi, Nov 15, 2019: A door creaked, as a boy climbed down the dusty stairs. He looked around at the horrors around him. He kept walking and suddenly gasped as he got to the center of the crypt. A dust blown stone table stood ominously. AContinue Reading

Matters India Reporter Guwahati, October 30, 2019 — A book entitled ‘Pregnancy and Pregnancy Care Practice – the lived experience of the Bodos’ authored by Assistant Professor at Department of Sociology Dr. Jacob Islary was officially launched today, 29th October 2019 by Vice Chancellor, Assam Don Bosco University Fr. (Dr.)Continue Reading

LissyMaruthanakuzhy The book gives the reader a good picture of the aspirations and struggles of a native Goan in the colonial Portuguese era in Goa. If anyone, like myself have thought that people of Goa were happy under the Portuguese colonizers, perhaps we are not so right. As far backContinue Reading