By Ladislaus L D’Souza Seventy years of independence from British rule! In the seven decades gone by India has achieved much to earn its place in the Sun. From the bullock-cart age to the Computer age to the age of internet, twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and what have you, free IndiaContinue Reading
Fr M A Joe Antony, SJ On Sunday, 23 July 2017, the world lost one of its most faithful and helpful friends. So did I; so did many others in India and New Zealand. Around 1130 am (IST) that day, Wenceslaus Anthony, 59, whom we all called ‘Wency’ affectionately, diedContinue Reading
Final statement from the International Conference on Women Empowerment Against Modern Day SlaveryContinue Reading
Dr. George Jacob At times of crisis, it is not degrees, embellishments or epaulettes that will save lives, but nerves of steel and presence of mind The anesthesia technician working in the hospital I worked in decided to take it easy on the lazy Sunday morning last weekend. Sunday isContinue Reading
Ramesh Venkataraman This year marks the 1,000th birth anniversary of Ramanuja, the great Vaishnava theologian who reinvented and revitalised Hinduism, and the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s triggering of the Protestant Reformation which fundamentally reshaped Christianity. Both events are a salutary reminder in these troubled times of how religions canContinue Reading
By Sameer Nagrare Nagpur: “God so loved the world that he gave only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (Jn 3:16). This verse refers not to me searching for God, but God in his mercy came in search of me. I was aContinue Reading
A wealth of values that still thrives in the hearts and lives of the Syrian peopleContinue Reading
hristine Grace saw a busy tourist town turn into a garrison town within a monthContinue Reading
I am a 25-year-old girl from Arunachal Pradesh and I have been living in Delhi for quite some time now. On 18 June, I had gone to meet my friends at a hotel in Delhi. My friends (one male and one female) were guests at the hotel so they hadContinue Reading
