By John Dayal New Delhi, March 27, 2020: Some immediate measures are needed to help informal workers and destitute poor to survive the 21-day lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 in India. These have been developed in consultation with economists and social movements. Enough measures are in place for theContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, March 26, 2020: “God has fled from Mecca and the Vatican…Why donate to religious places when they have closed their doors to us in our time of need?. At last my dream is realised, of spirituality without religion.” Provocative statements in the light of the Coronavirus! ShouldContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, March 25, 2020: Many people in Bengaluru got a shock on March 24 when the headline in the daily newspaper read: “In Karnataka curfew extended till the midnight of 31st March.” The state government had made no prior announcement about this. The news also saidContinue Reading
By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad, March 24, 2020: Exactly forty years ago on March 24 Archbishop Oscar Romero was brutally gunned down, while he celebrated the Eucharist in his native El Salvador. As the world remembers and celebrates the memory of this great saint of our times, one isContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Parsahi (Bana), March 24, 2020: It was very motherly of Asha Devi to express happiness when the four convicts, who had gang raped and brutally killed her beloved daughter, were finally hanged to death in Tihar jail in the early hours on March 20, 2020. ItContinue Reading
Washington, March 21, 2020: Earlier on March 19, I announced that I will not be running for re-election as Washington State’s lieutenant governor and have decided to enter the Society of Jesus. This decision follows two years of careful and prayerful discernment. But because that process has been almost entirelyContinue Reading
By Shaili Chopra Motherhood in Coronavirus times has been tough. We are rediscovering our lives, our environment and a part of our selves. Thanks to coronavirus, I am a new self. And I am quite scared of confronting this person in the mirror. Because she is this maniacal woman whoContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, March 18, 2020: As we battle COVID-19, a coronavirus form, I am reminded of the First World War. People struggled in many ways during those years. Food was scarce. Our first sisters were also in the same situation. Our founder Blessed James Alberione struggled to feedContinue Reading
By Inaliza Nongbyrsaw Shillong, March 18, 2020: It is with a sense of joy and love that I share my experience working as an editor for the National Youth Commission, Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of India (CCBI), for the past two years. I recall the day of my appointment whichContinue Reading
By Deepika Singh Mumbai, March 17, 2020: In 2004, an NGO requested me to share my experience of “climate change impact” on the “arid ecosystem” and my mind quickly switched to my homeland Ajmer, Rajasthan, a state in northern India. Even though I was out of the village after completingContinue Reading
