By Vijayesh Lal Home Minister Amit Shah has told the Parliament that the process of making a National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be conducted across India and will be repeated in Assam. This exercise which will be carried out with the Census 2021 has disastrous consequences on many fronts.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Dec 8, 2019: Taking a clue from the recently concluded Amazonian Synod held in the Vatican, Catholic Church Reform International, a body of reform minded Catholics, is seeking to have similar people’s synods in various countries. Plans are afoot in Brazil, Mexico, USA, Germany, Kenya, Australia andContinue Reading
By Kim Ae-ran Recently by chance, I met Father Kinley Tshering, former provincial superior of Darjeeling Jesuit Province in India, the first and only native Bhutan Catholic priest. Bhutan is a close Buddhist theocracy with a population of less than a million, located in the Eastern Himalayas in South Asia,Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Dec 2, 2019: Christmas is a time when devout Christians use the invocation “Maranatha.” It is the concluding line in the Bible that means “Come Lord Jesus” (Rev 22:20). It is most appropriate for Advent. This phrase is earlier used by St Paul in his benediction toContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Nov 28, 2019: “Brave Jewish youth survives lions’ den.” That would have been the headline if there was a newspaper during the Old Testament time. In these days of newspapers, the Book of Daniel are reenacted as we read about the courage and composure of someContinue Reading
By Nikhil Asdude, TwoCircles.net “CONSTITUTIONAL MORALITY IS NOT A NATURAL SENTIMENT. IT HAS TO BE CULTIVATED. WE MUST REALISE THAT OUR PEOPLE HAVE YET TO LEARN IT. DEMOCRACY IN INDIA IS ONLY A TOP-DRESSING ON AN INDIAN SOIL WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY UNDEMOCRATIC.” DR B.R.AMBEDKAR Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar stood for theContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 19, 2019: What a word! My word, it isn’t. Ask our very own wordsmith – Shashi Tharoor. So why did I choose such an obnoxious sounding word? It is actually a combination of three words – Grape, Gripe and Rape; with which I have taken poeticContinue Reading
By Ancie Wilfred Nagpur, Nov. 9, 2019: One morning I was wondering what to fill into the extra hour that I had acquired in my day because of a planned activity being postponed. Then I heard a woman’s voice near my door asking if I was home. It was Saraswati,Continue Reading
By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Nov. 7, 2019: I doubt whether I would have ever come to know of a “Didgeridoo” if a chance encounter one evening with Ron Murray did not take place. He was on his way from Melbourne to Chennai with a stopover in Delhi. As theContinue Reading
By Valea We have heard of the saying “Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isai: Aapas Mai Sab Bhai-Bhai” (Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian: We Are All Brethren To Each Other). For some people, the phrase represents a deep longing for inter-community harmony in a world that is deeply fractured in the name ofContinue Reading
