By Don Aguiar Mumbai, May 22, 2020: Lockdown is all a bit of a shock being enforced in just four hours from the time PM Modi made this announcement, and honestly, even if you followed the build up from the start like some sort of Bollywood film there really wasn’tContinue Reading
By Debapriya Sen Vaite New Delhi, May 19, 2020: Governments around the world are reorienting their outlook towards public health amid the Covid-19 pandemic. While influenza pandemics have occurred in the past and have a potential to reoccur, the current situation must be viewed in the larger context of overallContinue Reading
By Sr Jessy Kurian New Delhi, May 16, 2020: From 1987, bodies of about 20 nuns have been found in the wells of various convents in Kerala, including Sister Abhaya’s in 1992. In all these cases, neither the convent authorities nor the diocese nor the Kerala Catholic Church has lodgedContinue Reading
By Ash Narain Roy New Delhi, May 14, 2020: Socrates was born in Athens but he considered himself “a citizen of the cosmos.” H.G.Wells believed borders eventually disappear, and geopolitical gurus have proclaimed the “end of geography.” The protagonists of globalization celebrate the advent of borderless world. “The future hasContinue Reading
By Mansi Singh Aligarh, May 12, 2020: A large number of people took to social media after the recent Boy’s Locker room incident to express their rage and anger and to play their part in confronting the problem. But a question of concern here is, “Is this locker room incidentContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, May 8, 2020: The first thing that disappeared was the annoying sound of a power drill up the street, from a house under construction. Then the newspapers. Then the fruit sellers, the taxis, the rickshaws, and chicken. Day by day, life under coronavirus lockdown took awayContinue Reading
By Suhasini Haidar New Delhi, May 3, 2020: The Indian government has unequivocally dismissed the US Commission of International Religious Freedom’s latest report, which ranks the country on the lowest grade of “Countries of Particular Concern.” The report cites the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register for Citizens,Continue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad, May 2, 2020: ‘World Press Freedom Day’ (May 3) in India is a day of reckoning: a time for stock-taking and for soul-searching; to realise the abysmal depths to which the ‘press’ has fallen in the country and the way several journalists have stoopedContinue Reading
Ranchi, May 1, 2020: “We want to go home,” is the cry of most Migrant Laborers wherever they are. But what is awaiting them in their homes? What would they need to do to live in their homes with self-respect and dignity? Jesuit social activist Father Stan Swamy takes aContinue Reading
By M G Devasahayam Chennai, April 29, 2020: With the Gulf-pushback, Sangh Parivar’s merciless Muslim-bashing seems to have hit a rock. The nation-wide, intense anti-CAA agitation had come as a major setback and on its heels came the health pandemic Covid-19 from across the shores after killing many. Political leadership,Continue Reading
