By F M Britto Raipur: The first teacher that I had encountered was my first grade teacher in my village’s government school. Those days we never had any modern play schools, nurseries and kindergartens. My father had admitted me in the school one year ahead of my school age, advancingContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi: As a teenager, my parents used to send me on shopping errands. The list would vary from provisions from wayside kiosks in the neighborhood, groceries from larger grocers,’ vegetables, fruits and perishables like meat, eggs and fish from the local market or Hawaiian footwear fromContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar: If I were to design religious life anew for our day and time, I would propose a fourth vow — against gossip. I am a final professed sister of the congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I am convinced my vocation to religiousContinue Reading
By A P Shah Thank you to Ram Puniyani and his colleagues at the National Solidarity Forum for organising Kandhamal Day this year. This is an important event to mark one of the most horrific incidents of communal violence that has taken place in India in the recent past. TheyContinue Reading
By M.K.George Rome: Afghanistan is on everyone’s mind. A tormenting presence. Should we be crying or speaking up for her? As the president of the country Ashraf Ghani fled and Taliban forces took over the city of Kabul, the despondence and extreme fear of the people of Afghanistan, except forContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: The biggest pandemic-lockdown casualty, the grisly death toll apart, is the Church’s liturgical celebration. From viewing Mass on TV or computer screens being just that, ‘viewing’/‘watching,’ to fulfilling the Sunday obligation by doing precisely that, our faith perspective in relation to the Liturgy has undergoneContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: Ever Since Covid-19 affected humankind, need for social distancing closed down schools and colleges. Classrooms were shuttered. Instead, online education became the new norm. It has been so ever since, with the virus still holding students to ransom, and keeping them indoors. Students used toContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: Seventy-four years after Independence from foreign rule, India is saddled with a monumental modern problem — disposal of the multifarious garbage. The two-pronged issue is care for the environment and the practicalities of garbage disposal at various levels. The resolution of the issue involves unlearningContinue Reading
By Franklin Caesar Thomas New Delhi: I have read in Matters India an article written by A. Pushparajan on August 5 under the headline, “Caste discrimination in Indian Church: Should Pope intervene?” This article is trying to explain some points raised by Pushparajan. According to the Vatican website (Week ofContinue Reading
By Arun Ferreira Mumbai: Although we received news by late evening on October 8, 2020, of Father Stan Swamy’s arrest, we were quite shocked to see him the next morning in the adjourning barrack conversing with inmates in his impeccable Hindi. I was at that time lodged in a cellContinue Reading
