By chhotebhai Kanpur, Oct 14, 2023: In India it is common to see street dogs chasing two-wheelers. When someone or something is persistently chased by another the phenomenon is called “being dogged by something.” With the latest flare up between Israel and the Hamas, following closely on the heels ofContinue Reading
By Isaac Gomes Kolkata, Oct 12, 2023: The Enforcement Directorate, better-known as ED, could arrest any citizen even without possessing any evidence of the alleged financial scam. It seemed to have the absolute right of arrest. However, in a landmark judgment on October 3, the Supreme Court criticized the EDContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Oct 6, 2023: The arrest of News Click founder and editor Prabir Purkayastha, the human resources chief Amit Chakravarty and a few other journalists associated with News Click on October 4, has sent a shock wave throughout the country. Amid growing restrictions on media freedom,Continue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, Oct 1, 2023: By getting Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam (Women’s Reservation Bill, 2023) passed in both houses of parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is losing no opportunity to take credit for this. He even called himself “the chosen one for empowering and strengthening women” duringContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, Sept 12, 2023: After the Pope, the person who holds (used to hold, at least) enormous power in the corridors of the Vatican is the head or the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. Arguably, one can say that the portfolio ofContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Sept 11, 2023: Some of the heart-rending scenes that I watched in the YouTube/social media were the eviction of the slum dwellers in certain parts of the national capital. Delhi has been witnessing a series of demolition drives of working-class neighbourhoods. These demolitions were carriedContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Sept 4, 2023: Teachers, and very sadly so, are today in the news, for all the wrong reasons! In Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, a school teacher made the students of her class come up and slap a Muslim child in the classroom. She was caught on cameraContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Aug 29. 2023: Those on death row face the wall, before being shot in the back. Police also frisk criminals while making them face a wall. Never a pleasant experience. Even in Jerusalem the Jews face the Western or Wailing Wall, to mourn what remains of Solomon’sContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, Aug 23, 2023: Kerala is known as God’s Own Country and visitors are invariably impressed by its beauty and splendour. Diversity marks all aspects of life in Kerala. Varieties of landscape and cuisine, cultures and religions, occupations and trades, thoughts and opinions make it unique.Continue Reading
By M K George Rome, Aug 22, 2023: In recent times, I heard from two people that Jesuits are terrorists: One, the president of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega and the other by an anchor of Janam T V, a Malayalam channel based in Kerala, southern India. It was while seizing aContinue Reading
