By Swami Agnivesh To help India, contemporary spiritualism must break the shackles on its own soul Religion is our strength — and weakness. Religion serves as a beacon of light when it helps to make us better human beings. For that, religion has to be rational, and our practise ofContinue Reading
Dr. George Jacob On June 7, Sitaram Yechury, the 64-year old General Secretary of the CPI (M) and Member of Parliament was on the third floor of the AK Gopalan Bhavan, the Head Quarters of the CPM in New Delhi. He was on his way to address a press conferenceContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ On expected lines, President Donald Trump has done it! In a major speech in Washington on June 1, Trump told the world that he was pulling out the United States from the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change. In doing so, the US is onlyContinue Reading
Jyoti Singh and Bilkis Bano were brutalized and gangraped. What happened to them holds a mirror to the darker side of our societyContinue Reading
Dr. George Jacob NEET exam (the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, or NEET-UG is an entrance examination in the country for students who wish to study any graduate medical course (MBBS/Dental course(BDS) or postgraduate course(MD/MS) in government or private medical colleges. NEET-UG(undergraduate for MBBS and BDS Courses are conducted byContinue Reading
By Fr. Varghese Paul, SJ Ahmedabad: An era in journalism, especially in the Catholic Church, came to an end when Fr. George Veliparambil, former Managing Editor of the Kerala Times and president of the Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA), died on May 15. According to reports and obituary write ups,Continue Reading
By: Jack Valero When I get in touch with Rosa Pich by Skype during Holy Week, I discover that she is on holiday with 12 of her children in Torreciudad, a shrine dedicated to Our Lady in northern Spain. “We are trying to return to normal life,” she says, followingContinue Reading
Louis Menezes IAS (Retd) & Dr Premila Menezes It is a matter of anguish that with all the resources available to the Church, there should be a sizable number of Catholic families in want, in distress, in a state of insecurity. Many of them live in very sub- standard dwellingsContinue Reading
By: Fr. Mervyn Carapiet Mother’s Day began in the United States in 1870. We owe it to Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Initially it was named Mother’s Peace Day. It was to be a day when mothers would applaud peace and strive for it. InContinue Reading
Chhotebhai (Third part of the trilogy “Seeing Red” and “Orange or Purple Caps”) We stop at a traffic signal when the light is red. It then turns to amber (saffron), before the green light gives us the signal to move ahead. I have unwittingly followed this colour sequence in myContinue Reading
