The General body meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ conference of India (CBCI) is a two-yearly happening. The participants in this meet are the bishops of the three different Rites – on it there are still many unresolved questions — like Latin, Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara. More than 180 bishops from theseContinue Reading
Dear Arnab Goswami, JNU, my alma mater, deserves your tax money. Partial disclosure: I studied sociology in JNU for six years. I voted for the All India Students Association candidates in the JNUSU elections. Every time. All the time. Trust me, I’m not anti-national. My university deserves to be nurtured.Continue Reading
Many of our countrymen may have lost their cool, but the voice of sanity, goodwill and brotherhood should not be lost in the cacophony of hate and profanityContinue Reading
Social justice is is the courage to build bridges and not wallsContinue Reading
We have a gigantic task cut out for us. Let us not be dwarfed by it.Continue Reading
I had my first close encounter with Mr. Narendra Modi in the late 1990s, sometime before he was parachuted into Ahmedabad as the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s choice as the new chief minister of Gujarat. He had accompanied RSS chief Kuppahalli Sudarshan, now dead, to the office of the Catholic BishopsContinue Reading
When George Orwell wrote his celebrated novel ‘1984’, he perhaps never realised that India would actually be witnessing a series of events in 1984 which include the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the genocide on the Sikhs which followed and the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. ‘The party leader’, in hisContinue Reading
The main focus of this United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is to cap the rate of global warming at 2 degrees CelsiusContinue Reading
The time has come to take such commitment to apocalyptic fulfillment through an apolitical mass movementContinue Reading
