By chhotebhai Kanpur, March 7, 2025: Arunachal Pradesh means the “Land of the Rising Sun,” because, being in the eastern most part of India. It is the first part of the county to be kissed by the rays of the rising sun. But now sinister dark clouds hover over Arunachal.Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, March 5, 2025: Every year we celebrate Lent, Easter, Advent, Christmas, other feasts as prescribed in the liturgical calendar and parochial feasts as decided at the parish level. Now the Catholic Church is in the jubilee year. Mega level celebrations have already started and theContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Feb 28, 2025: The term “Love Jihad” is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Jihad is derived from the Arabic word Jahada that literally means accomplishing a task or attaining a goal by strength and force, be it for propagating good or fighting evil. Assertion by forceContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, Feb 20, 2025: A few days ago, I watched a YouTube video on the pathetic conditions of the homeless people and the Night Shelters in Delhi. A few contradictions can be seen in every country. But in India we live amid contradictions everywhere. Delhi beingContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, Jan 26, 2025: The video of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde has gone viral in the social media. The woman bishop from the United States showed courage to express her plea to President Donald Trump. Trump attended a church service at Washington National Cathedral on theContinue Reading
By John Singarayar Mumbai, Jan 21, 2025: In a development that has sent shockwaves through India’s religious and political landscape, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent statements about ‘ghar vapsi’ (reconversion) of Adivasi communities have sparked a nationwide controversy. Speaking in Indore on January 13, Bhagwat made theContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Jan 17, 2025: It is late evening, the day after Uttarayan (January 15), traditionally called ‘vasi uttarayan.’ It has been a dull, cloudy day; the wind has been fairly good though. Since yesterday thousands have been on building –tops, flying their kites and many others runningContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, Jan 17, 2025: Two industrialists have become the talk among the social media, both in India and in abroad. One person is N R Narayana Murthy of Infosys and the other is S N Subrahmanyan of Larsen & Toubro (L&T). Months after Infosys co-founder NarayanaContinue Reading
By C M Paul Siliguri, January 8, 2025: Theologians in India are saddened at the passing of a multidimensional contextual theologian and Professor of Theology Fr. Felix Wilfred on January 7, 2025. His unexpected demise leaves a void in the hearts of his students and peers. He was 76 yearsContinue Reading
By Roy Alex Mannar, Sri Lanka, Dec 30, 2024: The week after Christmas becomes a time of stocktaking, examining the highs and lows of the past year, and setting hopes and resolutions for the year ahead. This has always been my customary approach, but my perspective was profoundly challenged thisContinue Reading
