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
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, March 17, 2020: Many a time bad events in our lives open up new opportunities. They also teach us life-changing lessons. The dreaded Coronavirus, which the United Nations has declared a worldwide pandemic, has opened up for India at least two distinct opportunities: (1) ToContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, March 15, 2020: In the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) UN High Commissioner, Michele Bachelet, has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court petition challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment Act, as she is critical of CAA. Responding to her, India’s Foreign Minister S.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, March 11, 2020: There are certain flowers and shrubs that immediately clam up when touched, which is why they are called “Touch Me Nots.” It is a natural self-defence mechanism that is also seen in tortoises. They withdraw into their shells. Post the Corona Virus (CV) pandemicContinue Reading
By Archbishop Anil Couto New Delhi, March 2, 2020: It was Thomas Jefferson who said that if he were to choose between a government without the Press and Press without government, he would choose the latter. The topic of the day “Journalism today: Pragmatism triumphs over principles?” gains more relevanceContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Feb 26, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias’ interview with the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) at the Vatican makes interesting reading. The cardinal acknowledges a bias among the members of the Catholic Church’s all-male hierarchy against giving women more leadership rolesHe also admits that he and his peersContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, Feb 21, 2020: This January, it is thirty years since the Kashmiri Pundits’ exodus from the Kashmir valley took place. They had suffered grave injustices, violence and humiliation prior to the migration away from the place of their social and cultural roots in Kashmir Valley. TheContinue Reading
By Nazish Hussain Ranchi, Feb 20, 2020: “What has gone so bad that you are you taking to streets,” Tara Bua asks her employer Shagufta Yasmeen in Hindi. Tara, a middle-aged housemaid at Shafugta’s home in Ranchi is oblivious about the ongoing protests across India against the Citizenship Amendment ActContinue Reading
By Sujata Anandan New Delhi, Feb 16, 2020: Every bit of news, every single day in these times brings home to me how badly India is regressing into the dark ages. The latest in this series is the report of girls at a college hostel in Bhuj in Gujarat whoContinue Reading
By Manish Kumar Arrah, Feb 14, 2020: For the eighth time in two weeks, Kanhaiya Kumar’s convoy was targeted on February 14 as he drove through central Bihar’s Buxar, part of his journey across Bihar to galvanize support against the controversial new citizenship law. The 33-year-old leftist youth leader wasContinue Reading
