By Julio Ribeiro Mumbai, March 25, 2022: When I opined in an earlier article that the hijab has no Koranic sanction and that a ban on wearing it to college is something that the girls who wear it should not defy, I was upbraided by my daughters and grand-daughter! TheirContinue Reading
By Julio Ribeiro Mumbai: As a product of Jesuit education, I have a soft corner for Jesuit priests. The arrest of Father Stan Swami, a Jesuit born in Tamil Nadu, who opted to live and serve in the Jamshedpur province, tending to the needs of the Adivasis of the area,Continue Reading
By Julio Ribeiro Mumbai, May 3, 2020: Locked down in my daughter’s home in Mumbai, I get to know what people are thinking and talking about when I speak to them on the telephone or by e-mail. And what they say is not pleasing to an old man’s ears! MyContinue Reading
If the religious minorities feel as ‘second-class citizens’, we are not worthy of being described as a democracyContinue Reading
An article written by former police officer Julio Ribeiro, initially headlined I am on a hit list, has ignited a debate concerning India’s Christians and their security under the Narendra Modi government. The 86-year-old Ribeiro—who admitted later he “slightly exaggerated” to attract attention—makes a series of scathing allegations against theContinue Reading
Ordinary Hindu men and women will not be swayed by an ideology that seeks to spread distrust and hateContinue Reading