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: Shane J Alliew, Running at 100 minutes, director Joe Wright’s film is the story about an agoraphobic woman Dr. Anna Fox (Amy Adams) living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a murder. An estranged child psychologist, Anna is fighting her ownContinue Reading

By: Shane Joseph Alliew Running at 135 minutes, Haseen Dillruba, directed by Vinil Mathew (known for Hasee Toh Phasee), is based on Roald Dahl’s short story Lamb to the Slaughter. The plot is a series of flashbacks and present-day police enquiry scenarios where Rani Kashyap (Tapsee Pannu) is being investigatedContinue 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

Darjeeling: Song of Hope dedicated to people fighting pandemic times released mid-April has gone viral. The song by music composer-sound engineer Praveen Francis is being sent to the Grammy 2022. Francis is a native of Coimbatore in Tamilnadu who has mustered good will partners from places across the continents includingContinue 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