V R Raman She was imperious, she was shy; she was called a goongi gudiya but she became Ma Durga; she was the frail teenager who became India’s first political bahubali; she was the dictator who was the daughter of India’s most idealistic constitutional democrat. If Indira Gandhi had beenContinue Reading

By Fr. Cedric Prakash sj Pope Francis has invited all Catholics and in fact, all men and women of goodwill, to observe November 19 as the ‘World Day of the Poor’. This year is the very first observance of such a day (now fixed for the 33rd Sunday of theContinue Reading

Father Raymond J. de Souza It is not quite right to say that married priests are coming to the Catholic Church — they have been here for quite some time. But recent decisions by Pope Francis mean that something new is almost certainly coming in a few years — theContinue Reading