By Varghese Alengaden Indore, March 26, 2020: Covid 19, which started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has turned into an unprecedented pandemic which has hit 196 countries killing more than 20,000 and infecting 450,000 people. Without visa this deadly virus has entered small and big countries killing hundreds everywhere.Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, March 25, 2020: A big shock was waiting for the people of India on March 24 evening. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced about the “National Total Lockdown” from the midnight of March 24 to April 14. Modi in his 26-minute speech mentioned about the allocationContinue Reading
By Gilda Rose Kalathil Penang, March 24, 2020: What we are going through is no less than a war. People are fighting, dying, winning, losing, helping, backstabbing, clever, wicked, stupid, foolish, insistent, cooperating, manipulating and unsupportive. You name it, they are there. Just like war times but in the healthContinue Reading
By James Martin New York, March 24, 2020: Last summer I underwent radiation treatment. And every time I passed through the doorway marked “Radiation Oncology,” my heart seemed to skip a beat. While I was in little danger (my tumor was benign, and, yes, one sometimes needs radiation for that),Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, March 23, 2020: My long-pending personal dream seems to have come true. All the worship places such as temple, mosque, gurudwara and church are closed all over India. This is the same case in other countries too. What a scenario! I am happy that itContinue Reading
By Robin David New Delhi, March 21, 2020: The Preamble to our Constitution and Articles 25 and 26 dealing with freedom of religion guarantee equality to all individuals and groups irrespective of their beliefs American statesman and prominent attorney Daniel Webster once said, “Justice is the greatest interest of manContinue Reading
Most Rev. Joseph D’Souza March 21, 2020: One of the reasons why Jesus’ call to follow him attracts people so strongly is that he accepts the whole gamut of a person’s humanity — from the unique DNA code that makes some of us tall and others short to our language,Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, March 21, 2020: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech to the nation on the spread of coronavirus sounds quite ‘silly’ and ‘childish’ to me. The reasons are given below: First of all, he has not announced any ‘welfare or relief measure’ that will benefit the commonContinue Reading
By James Kottoor Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian thinker, coined the term “Global Village” in the 1960s. He was highlighting the results of the coming of internet, which wiped out totally and instantly the distances of space and time – space to the shouting distance of a ‘village’ and time toContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, March 19, 2020: A question for the doctors here. Isn’t the incidence of flu as prevalent in India (a relatively warm country) as in colder countries and since coronavirus is a new strain in that family of viruses, why would Indians end up ultimately experiencing aContinue Reading