By Justine Gitanjali Senapati As I track recent Indian news on my social media and news portals, I come across stories about how India shuts down the valiant efforts of nongovernmental organizations that work for the most marginalized people and religious minority communities in India. According to the January HumanContinue Reading
By Valson Thampu On January 17, 2016, Rohit Vemula certified his caste identity with a touch of finality only he could have afforded. He tightened a noose around his neck. Left a note pretty much to the effect that he was only making visible the noose that had caught hisContinue Reading
By Valson Thampu The mark of a consummate speaker is the impression he creates in the listener that he is speaking who he is. He is not belching and bellowing words, but breathing his convictions. There were moments when I began to feel that I was not listening to theContinue Reading
After all, nothing succeeds like success, especially in politics.Continue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash Fr. Pedro Arrupe will always be remembered for all that he embodied and stood for. He was a deeply spiritual person with a great commitment to justice; he was a very ‘human’ person who reached out to others with compassion. As the 28th Superior General of theContinue Reading
Fr Cedric Prakash SJ January 30, 1948 will remain etched forever in the conscience of the nation. On that fateful day at evening prayer, Mahatma Gandhi fell to the bullets of his assassin Nathuram Godse, in Delhi. Godse represented the fascist, fanatic, fundamentalist and ‘feku’ forces, which abhorred the valuesContinue Reading
By: chhotebhai While writing about the Republic Day Parade (RDP) last year I said that I missed the rich timbered voice of Rini Simon-Khanna. I had also hazarded a guess that this year the Chief Guest would be the Emir of Kuwait . After watching this year’s RDP I gotContinue Reading
We have to grow as a community so that we become a cherished asset to the nationContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ In the significant move, the Union Cabinet in 2011, under the stewardship of the then Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, decided to celebrate January 25th as ‘National Voters’ Day’, which is also the anniversary of the foundation of the Election Commission of India(ECI). TheContinue Reading
