By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 7, 2023: The return of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to the Indian Parliament 135 days after his disqualification has reassured people’s faith in the Indian judiciary, say some Christian intellectuals. Gandhi, who represented Kerala’s Wayanad constituency in the Lok Sabha, was reinstated August 7Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 28, 2023: Activists and others have cheered India’s Supreme Court granting bail to a trade unionist and a lawyer jailed in the Bhima Koregaon case. “The granting of bail to Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves by the Supreme Court is indeed a significant step.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, July 24, 2023: More than 3,200 people from various walks of life on July 24 signed a memorandum urging the Indian President to “intervene urgently” to end the ethnic crisis in Manipur, a northeastern Indian state. The memorandum was drafted by the National Alliance of People’sContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 7, 2021: The Supreme Court on December 7 refused to interfere with a Bombay High Court order granting bail to Sudha Bharadwaj, a lawyer arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. The default bail order of Bharadwaj, 60, comes into effect fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The denial of bail to Father Stan Swamy continues to evoke condemnation even as the court claimed it has found evidence to prove the 83-year-old Jesuit tribal activist had conspired to overthrow the government. Special judge D E Kothalikar of the National Investigation AgencyContinue Reading
Dictators, fascists, fundamentalists and totalitarian regimes are afraid of the pen and use the sword to throttle freedom of speech and expressionContinue Reading
October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, has been declared as the UN International Day of Non-ViolenceContinue Reading
By: Fr Cedric Prakash SJ March 8th dawns every year! As the world observes International Women’s Day (IWD), there will be the usual round of cosmetic programmes, with speaker after speaker using the politically correct words and with the typically patronising attitude towards women. The sad and cruel reality is thatContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ In the significant move, the Union Cabinet in 2011, under the stewardship of the then Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, decided to celebrate January 25th as ‘National Voters’ Day’, which is also the anniversary of the foundation of the Election Commission of India(ECI). TheContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday it is important to celebrate his memory, to pay heed to the rich legacy he has bequeathed to us and to see how best we can realise his dream in our world today! ‘MLK’ as he was fondly known,Continue Reading