By Uddalak Mukherjee The night was not quite a night of long knives. Ten years ago, the knives — a metaphorical allusion to murder, rape and arson — were unsheathed for months, from August to December, in Odisha’s hilly Kandhamal region. It was one of the worst instances of targetedContinue Reading
By Bhawana Bisht Rape is a heinous crime. It happens every minute of every day in one part of the country or another. The crime happens to women across social and economic standing; it happens across religion, caste and regions. This is regardless of which political party has formed theContinue Reading
Tribal people are asserting their rights over land, water and forestContinue Reading
There has been little effort at rebuilding livesContinue Reading
By John Dayal We as a community must demand that Franco Mulakkal, the former bishop of the Jalandhar Catholic diocese, in the northwestern Punjab state, [suspended, or how do we describe his present canonical position], be tried in a fast track court on the charges of multiple rapes of aContinue Reading
By Joseph Mani Whenever a scandal or scam among the clergy comes to light, the apologists for the Church point out that a few rotten apples do not make the whole basket of apples rotten. They point out that for every Varghese, Mulakkal and McCarrick there are ten priests, bishopsContinue Reading
The Church in India has to learn some lessons from this sordid episodeContinue Reading
India legalized abortion to control India’s populationContinue Reading
By John L. Allen Jr ROME: If there’s one thing anyone who’s covered the Vatican for a long time ought to have learned by now, it’s never to say a particular story just can’t get any more surreal, because trust me – it always can. On August 28, veteran VaticanContinue Reading
In Guwahati, senior high court advocate Kamal Nayan Choudhury is challenging the legality of the deadline of March 25, 1971 as the cut-off date for detecting and deporting the aliens of East Pakistan- or Bangladesh-origin in the Supreme Court. Choudhary has a rather interesting line of argument. He says thatContinue Reading
