Fr. Cedric Prakash sj Violence continues to throttle several parts of the world: in the past few days, bombings in Istanbul, Turkey and in the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt; the escalation of violence in Aleppo Syria- are just some of the violent acts which have resulted in several deathsContinue Reading
By saying that demonetization is alright but the manner of its implementation is not right, the opposition parties are fooling the publicContinue Reading
By: Provakar Bar Baruipur (Kolkata): Sundarban covers 19 blocks of South and North 24 Parganas districts in West Bengal. Gosaba is one of the remote blocks and major part of Sundarban delta . It is multi hazard prone block for its geographical location. Some main rivers like Gosaba, Vidyadhari, Matla,Continue Reading
By : Arun D Khaitan. Indonesia is admired for successfully combining Islam and democracy. Yet this month police formally declared the country’s most prominent Christian politician, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the governor (in effect, mayor) of Jakarta, to be a suspect in a blasphemy case. If convicted, Mr Purnama, known asContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis is firing back at foes of his efforts to make the Catholic Church more open and pastoral in its ministry, telling an interviewer that “they are acting in bad faith to foment divisions.” The pontiff’s lengthy interview in Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian hierarchy,Continue Reading
Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed a farmer at Punjo Sona Toli under the Ghaghra Police Station area in Gumla District. Police recovered a pamphlet near the body, which was found half a kilometre away from the farmer’s residence. The pamphlet alleged he was an informer of the JharkhandContinue Reading
Francis is trying to build a Roman Catholic Church that emphasizes inclusion and mercy, and focuses on serving poor and marginalized people. Can the 79-year-old pontiff appoint enough like-minded cardinals to ensure that his vision of the church will endure after he dies? The College of Cardinals is responsible for electing aContinue Reading
There is a need to break gender binaries as power is hegemonic and prescribes violence to control, dominate and enforce a system of ruleContinue Reading
On October 25 (2016) the seven member Supreme Court Bench started hearing to revisit ‘Hindutva’ cases. These are group of cases where the use of term Hindutva-Hinduism to be used during elections is to be opined. One such case was that of Manohar Joshi who in his election speech saidContinue Reading
There is no guarantee that the measures announced so far are fool proofContinue Reading
