I remember Mother Teresa insisting with me once in Kolkata airport to give me a lift to the religious house in the city where I would be staying the night. We had just reached from Mumbai by a delayed flight and it was well past midnight. I assured her thatContinue Reading
September 5 is also Teacher’s Day in IndiaContinue Reading
Saints can be signs of contradictionContinue Reading
Since Mamata Banerjee says she will not attend Mother Teresa’s September 4 canonisation in Rome as part of India’s official delegation but as a guest of the Missionaries of Charity and will sit with them, presumably she will also dress like them. Actually, West Bengal’s chief minister is no strangerContinue Reading
The only sensible conclusion one can come to after hearing Chatterjee’s lament is that the world would benefit greatly from more “imperialist ventures of the Catholic Church.”Continue Reading
Veteran journalist recalls his two encounters with Mother TeresaContinue Reading
August 7 is last day of World Breastfeeding WeekContinue Reading
Any law has to change according to the needs of the timeContinue Reading
The agony and irony associated with the birth of Bangladesh in 1971 in more ways than one surpassed these elements of 1947 when Indian sub-continent broke up amid bloodshed and Pakistan came into being. Who would have imagined such ruination – physical and moral – that could lead to proveContinue Reading
