By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: The murder of French school teacher Samuel Paty by an 18 year old Muslim boy of Russian origin has opened the Pandora’s Box all over. Few days’ later three people were killed in Nice, in France again. There were protests against France in few Muslim majorityContinue Reading
By Tony PM and Peter Martin Ranchi: Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy’s arrest on the night of October 8 has caused a stir in India, especially in the country’s central and eastern region where the 83-year-old has spent half a century relentlessly fighting for the rights and values of indigenous people.Continue Reading
Ranchi: Father Stan Swamy is a Jesuit priest and a tribal rights activist based in Jharkhand, eastern India. Two days before his arrest, Father Stan Swamy, 83, a Jharkhand-based Jesuit priest, human rights activist and writer who was arrested by NIA on October 8 in the Bhima Koregaon case, hadContinue Reading
Rome: These days, WhatsApp messages from my 75-year-old nun-friend wakes me up. What a surprising development. She sends me good morning messages, good night messages, prayers, and even some good jokes. It is interesting to see the increasing number of religious men and women using the apps. The users rangeContinue Reading
Rome: The unholiest of scandals has erupted inside the Holy See — yet again. Vatican finances have always been unsavory, but in recent years Europe’s smallest state has acquired a reputation as the most corrupt on the Continent. Now the cardinal who until he was sacked in September was inContinue Reading
Bengaluru: The Nirbhaya incident in 2012 was followed by spontaneous nation-wide (also world-wide) protests, candle light marches, rallies and meetings etc. After this, many were under the impression that rape will come to a sudden halt all over India. Sadly, the opposite is happening. My 21-year-old daughter, who just finishedContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Sept 13, 2020: In January this year, a Bengaluru-based NGO conducted a baseline survey among the migrant workers who were mainly from Bihar, UP and Odisha. Out of the 100 men interviewed, 20 men did not know to write their names. They also could notContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Sept 3, 2020: The World has been battling with Covid-19 since December 2019. No light is visible yet at the end of the seemingly unending and uncertain ‘viral tunnel’ through which the world seems to be dragged through. Clinical spectrum of Covid-19, which ranges fromContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Aug 31, 2020: Just a couple of days before his retirement from the Supreme Court, Justice Arun Mishra gave (perhaps unwittingly) the people of India a very special gift: a ONE RUPEE COIN! It was in the form of the ‘punishment’ meted out to seniorContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Aug 26, 2020: Ouch! They’ve done it again. Those Gandhi topi wearing Congress wallahs. The original Gandhi topi has been replaced by another Gandhi hat – the obsequious and sycophantic one, before the descendants of another Gandhi – Indira. This sycophancy was at its worst display atContinue Reading
