Pedestallizing Poor Francis
2016-03-13
Pope Francis completes 3 years of his papacy this March 13Continue Reading
Indian bishops’ plenary: Time for tokenism is over
2016-03-12
Kolkata: The March 2-9 biennial plenary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) crystallized on some important decisions, in line with what our Pope has been exhorting the Church to do. They are: 1. The unanimous view that “the crying need of the hour was to continue dialogue” whichContinue Reading
Hope for the rise of mercy in Yemen
2016-03-10
Mother Teresa was placing her sisters on the frontiers of battle when she entered Yemen, a primarily Muslim nationContinue Reading
Why no publicity, transparency for Bangalore CBCI Meet
2016-03-05
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
‘Nationalism not a marketing tool’
2016-03-02
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
Have we lost our cool?
2016-02-28
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
Crying for social justice
2016-02-22
Social justice is is the courage to build bridges and not wallsContinue Reading
Dwarfing A Giant
2016-02-13
We have a gigantic task cut out for us. Let us not be dwarfed by it.Continue Reading
No dialogue between sheep and wolves
2016-01-20
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