David Hollenbach, S.J May 14, 2020: The Covid-19 crisis reveals the full force of unjust structures that place refugees and very poor people at great risk. It also shows the dangers of political discourse that emphasizes national interests to the exclusion of the world’s most vulnerable people. International responses toContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, May 14, 2020: I received many personal emails responding to my reflection on migrant workers which was published in Matters India under the title, “Workers Deserve Justice not Charity.” Bernard Colombe from Lyon, a city in France, sent me a reflection related to the plight ofContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad, May 13, 2020: The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (HCHF) has called on religious leaders and faithful, from every faith from around the world to observe May 14 as a day of prayer, fasting and charitable works the good of all humanity and forContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, May 12, 2020: Newspapers, TV and social media are full of stories of the plight of migrant workers stranded in various parts of India. Deaths of workers on the highways and railway tracks because of accidents and hunger have become daily news. Media also carry storiesContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, May 12, 2020: Of course there were nurses by any other name in Islamic countries, and in India before St Thomas. Midwives, Dhais and others brought our grandparents into the world. But caste and patriarchy prevented women in modern India taking up nursing as aContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, May 8, 2020: The tragic death of 16 migrant workers on the railway tracks in Aurangabad city is the result of the callous and insensitive approach of the federal and state governments towards the burning issue of migrant workers. In fact, it is murder due toContinue Reading
By Ekta Kumar New Delhi, May 6, 2020: Sex can be a beautiful connection between two people – with or without love. How we approach it, the physical act and the person, is reflective of who we are. We begin to form our attitudes, behavior, and interpretations of what isContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, May 4, 2020: The saga of migrant laborers taking risk to reach their homes somehow is reported in the media every day ever since lockdown was clamped all over India on March 25. On May 2, the Madhya Pradesh police found during a routine check upContinue Reading
By Julio Ribeiro Mumbai, May 3, 2020: Locked down in my daughter’s home in Mumbai, I get to know what people are thinking and talking about when I speak to them on the telephone or by e-mail. And what they say is not pleasing to an old man’s ears! MyContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, May 3, 2020: Ever since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in India on January 30 in a medical student who returned home to Kerala from China’s Wuhan, the Coronavirus has had the country by the scruff of her neck by infecting 39,980 andContinue Reading
