Chhotebhai Gay activists are ecstatic that the Supreme Court has finally struck down Sec 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), as being ultra vires of the Constitution, basic human rights, privacy and equal treatment. Why this ecstasy? Gay activists (which include homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders) had filed a writContinue Reading

By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Saint Teresa of Calcutta embodies so much: charity and compassion; goodness and generosity; simplicity and sanctity, and much more! She was (and is) the world to the millions of her followers: the poorest of the poor, the dying destitute, the unloved and rejected and othersContinue Reading

By John B Monteiro “If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.” H L Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist and satirist. Missionaries are no more a joke. In some African countries where cannibalism was prevalent, when they killed and roasted a person,Continue Reading

By Anirban Bhattacharya and Nandini Dey It has been ten years since the sheltered calmness of the plateaus of Kandhamal witnessed one of the bloodiest episodes of communal violence unleashed on Christian minorities in India. Dalits and tribals found themselves under siege from mobs led by Hindutva fanatics. Dismembered limbs,Continue Reading

By: John Dayal 70 years as a church in Independent India, and a decade after the worst violence wrecked on the community in 300 years in the district of Kandhamal in the state of Orissa,  the Christian community and its ecclesiastical leadership find themselves singularly ill-equipped to deal with theContinue Reading