By Mudita Menona Sodder Mumbai, March 30, 2023: Father Varghese Alengaden shocked many with his untimely and unexpected death on March 26. Many, including me, had last met him on February 1, at the ninth Global Peace Convention at Porbandar. Parul Jain from Udaipur said, “It is really very unbelievableContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Celebrations of birthdays of persons, foundation days of institutions and jubilees of different types have become common in our society. Much money, time and energy are wasted for exhibiting pomp and show by persons and institutions. Often people count the years of mere existence instead ofContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, April 4, 2020: The government ordered nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic is a golden opportunity for people to connect to their creator without mediators. Because the virus has sent our godmen, priests and preachers scurrying for cover. All their claims of divine powers toContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, March 21, 2020: The world has suffered from epidemics of different types, natural disasters and manmade tragedies of communal violence and terrorism. These tragedies, epidemics, wars and calamities affected a particular country or a few countries of a region at a particular time. However, they didContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, August 7, 2019: Thirty years ago whenever I got an opportunity to address the gatherings of priests and religious in a few dioceses, I had proposed to appoint a fulltime person for building public relations and create good will among local people. At that time hardlyContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, August 6, 2019: These days, people in India are experiencing insecurity and threats. While many politicians have sold their souls for temporary benefits, some authors, actors, journalists and activists continue their prophetic mission of speaking out against human right violations, state sponsored violence and dictatorial actionsContinue Reading
Let us not make an excuse of delegating our job to GodContinue Reading
Michael Gonsalves Varghese Alengaden, a Catholic priest from Indore, is “possessed by peace.” His latest peace building mission is to persuade the Bharatiya Jananta Party-led Modi government to create a Union ministry for peace. Having known him for many years, I am least surprised by the padre’s latest venture. IfContinue Reading