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
By Kushal Gulab Sometimes even the word ‘history’ makes us sputter in a rage of frustration. His story. Why is it all about men? How come such few women feature in our pasts? With the exception of Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, did they really do nothing worth remembering? Perhaps thatContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar. Mumbai, October 24, 2019: Let me first relate an anecdote to hdlp you decide if Christian Missionaries pose a conversion threat in today’s India. I spend some five months a year in the countryside in Raigad, Maharashtra, overseeing my plantations where I also own a bungalow. AContinue Reading
By James Kottoor Vanchi Square near the Kerala High court in Ernakulam witnessed another whole day gathering on October 12 to support and promote “Justice for Sr. Lucy” hounded by the Church hierarchy, especially by those in the Syro-Malabar Church. The morning session which I attended included people from allContinue Reading
By Jose Vallikatt Dear Bishops and elders of the Christian churches of India, While in this week the Catholic Church is commemorating the feast of its great saint Francis of Assisi, the prophet of peace, I am more compelled than inspired to write this letter to you with an undyingContinue Reading
(sequel to “Gandhiji’s Quest for Truth) By chhotebhai Kanpur, October 5, 2019: It’s done and dusted, Mahatma Gandhi’s sesquicentennial birth anniversary. So, we may now conveniently forget him and return to our humdrum lives. After all, no less than the PM has pompously declared rural India to be Open DefecationContinue Reading
By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd It was a pleasant surprise last week to come across a news report about the findings of a survey done by what was described as a ‘RSS think tank’ on the status of women in India. Besides claiming that married women and women who seek spiritualContinue Reading
