By Stacy Rodrigues Mapusa, Goa, April 14, 2020: So lost in our day to day lives, various activities and colorful future plans, had anyone thought of this phase–lockdown? Suddenly a small virus brought it all to a standstill. To many, life has paused, to a few, life has taken aContinue Reading
By Anthony Fernandes Panaji, April 12, 2020: A niece of Fusco-Jackson on March 20 wrote this on the Facebook: “My mom is one of 11, last Thursday I went to sleep having 10 aunts and uncles! Friday I woke up and found out I only had 9. Just a fewContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, April 10, 2020: Covid-19, an invisible microbe which originated in Wuhan, China, in mid-November 2019 has attacked over 198 countries in the world killing 88,528 people and infecting over 1,519,066. This invisible enemy has not spared even the most developed countries which have powerful armies andContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, April 10, 2020: For a vast majority of the common people in India the words ‘social distancing’ are alien and it is not in their ethos. For ages, people have learned to live together as groups/communities. Due to coivd-19 pandemic situation the ‘forced’ social distancingContinue Reading
By James Kottoor Kochi, April 8, 2020: Today the whole world is in a life and death battle against an unknown common enemy we have chosen to call COVID 19 or coronavirus. So far, we know practically nothing about Coronavirus. To defeat an enemy one should know its strengths andContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, April 8, 2020: As the secretary of the Legion of Mary in my parish 51 years ago it was my lot to give a commentary on the Holy Week liturgy. That got me thinking on what was so unique about Jesus’ rather “limited” suffering on the cross.Continue Reading
By M K George, SJ Jamshedpur, April 7, 2020: It may be too early to speak of post-pandemic times. No one really knows when and where the pandemic will end. But, hoping against hope and looking at some of the stabilizing or downward trends and the social responses to theContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, April 6, 2020: The first case of Covid-19 was reported in a 55-year old in China’s Hubei province on November 17, 2019. Since then, the virus, SARS-CoV-2, belonging to the Coronavirus family, causing the dreaded disease has held the world hostage. The virus, which hasContinue Reading
By Arshad Alam New Delhi, April 5, 2020: They came with a promise of cleansing the system; a system that according to them was beset with nepotism and corruption. With the might of right-wing media and some influential think tanks doing their bidding, they were foisted on national imagination. ToastedContinue Reading
By Paul Parackal Rome, April 3, 2020: Our science and technology have reached greater heights. We have space stations and satellites in the space which can map the whole earth. A whole world of information and knowledge is on our palm with the arrival of smartphones. A tiny microscopic COVID-19Continue Reading
