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1.30 am. I stepped out of office after my night duty. A strong gust of cool wind blew. It meant just one thing: Rain. It was raining heavily somewhere. If my instincts are right, it would soon rain. I put on my raincoat, fastened the chin strap of the helmetContinue Reading

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First the milk part. There was a cauldron of fresh milk kept amidst a group of people. Seeing it lying unattended one of the bystanders siphoned off some in a bottle and took it home. A second bystander wanted to drink the milk, but he was rudely pushed aside byContinue Reading

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Pope Francis’ speech, which explains how to live “Synodality” is the very core of Christian living for all from Pope at the top to the pauper Lazarus at the bottom. It is the panacea for all conflicts in the church community, where hierarchy has no place, because “the pope doesContinue Reading

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Early in 2013, a few months after Reena Bose* decided to adopt a child, she approached the Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata – the most prominent of the 16 orphanages and adoption centres run by Mother Teresa’s congregation of nuns. A chartered accountant from Bangalore, Bose had already tried her luckContinue Reading

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Last month, I was reading Nathuram Godse’s statement to the court in his defence of murdering Mahatma Gandhi. The statement published in the form of a book titled ‘Why I killed Gandhi’ had me in a state of shock with Godse’s justification of his intolerance. I was convinced that menContinue Reading