By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ Beirut, April 7, 2019: Miryiam (name changed) spoke in a steely voice, but with passion as tears welled in her eyes, “Yes, they killed him! But for me, Abouna Frans will never die!” Those words of a young woman are a fitting tribute to aContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 31, 2019: In February, the Supreme Court of India directed the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) to respond within three months to a representation seeking the redefinition of the term “minority.” The representation had been pending before the Commission for 15 months. One can understand why theContinue Reading
By Poonam Muttreja Gangtok, March 29, 2019: Everyone knows that Sikkim is a small extraordinarily picturesque mountainous state tucked away in the Himalayas in the northeast of India. That indeed it is. Even today, there are only around 650,000 people living in the state. However, much less known about SikkimContinue Reading
By Arul Gnanapragasam, SJ Muslims loyalty to India is often questioned by a section of political class and media. It’s also said Muslims are not rooted in this subcontinent. What’s the truth value of such comments? An intellectual engagement with Kombai S Anwar, a documentary maker on Tamil Muslims andContinue Reading
By Sarrah Do women need men to conquer the world? It is famously said that there is a woman behind every successful man but only women by themselves behind these successful women. Mother Teresa was an ambassador for the power of unconditional love. As the founder of Missionaries of CharityContinue Reading
By Frazer Mascarenhas S J | Mumbai, March 15, 2019: With elections around the corner, who would think of educators and their influence? At an event last week, Father Arturo Sosa SJ — the Superior General of the worldwide Jesuit organisation and a political scientist himself — met a fewContinue Reading
By The Kolkata Telegraph Editorial Board Kolkata, March 14, 2019: Impressive gestures are right up the prime minister’s street. But when he nobly invited people’s inputs for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election manifesto, he may not have been expecting quite as forthright and detailed a missive as the one presentedContinue Reading
By Father Cedric Prakash SJ March 8, 2019: General Elections 2019 are round the corner! The dates of the elections have not yet been announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI).In all probability they will do so by 15 March. The ECI has within its powers to announce theContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob. Kochi, Feb. 19, 2018: On September 28 2018, the Indian Supreme Court threw ‘tradition and custom’ to the wind by allowing women of all ages to worship at the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, where until then, only women between 10 and 50 years could worship, besidesContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Feb. 17, 2019: February 14 brought shocking news of terrorist attack that killed 44 CRPF soldiers when a 20-year-old suicide bomber rammed his vehicle laden with 350 kg of explosives into a bus travelling on Jammu–Srinagar highway. It was part of 78–vehicle convoy carrying 2500 CRPFContinue Reading
