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

SUPW — Four alphabets that were meant to shape our lives in addition to the usual subjects in school: Socially Useful and Productive Work. Yes, that was SUPW. Classes we looked forward to because it was in these classes that we students really got to do some work. Practically, thatContinue Reading

Bangalore: Centuries have passed, civilizations have changed, and technologies are evolving at breakneck speed as the human brain works overtime to conquer new frontiers. Yet human mindsets remain closed. That was what I learned from a recent experience at a Jesuit center that works for tribal people in the southernContinue Reading