By Yogendra Yadav New Delhi, Oct 20, 2022: Every public debate in our country involving English language serves to illustrate an apartheid mindset. Otherwise reasonable persons make logic stand on its head. Presumptions replace experience. Anecdotes outweigh evidence. Advocates of radical changes in every walk of life turn out toContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Oct 6, 2022: In one of the boldest and most lucid articulations on the Kerala Catholic ‘friendship with the BJP,’ Father Kuriakose Mundadan (Satyadeepam September 29, 2022) described it as BJP fishing in troubled waters. His analysis is simple and straightforward. With the knowledge thatContinue Reading
By Lavina D’Souza Belgaum, Sept 29, 2022: While we were on the school playground, we often heard the coach shout the motto: “United we stand, divided we fall.” His loud voice drilled into us that strong message that in order to win we had to be united. Today, in theContinue Reading
By George Jacob Kochi, Sept 21, 2022: National daily New Indian Express recently reported an incident which had the Kerala High Court chastise the attitude of the “new-gen” towards marriage and family. A man abandoned his wife and three daughters after nine years of marriage subsequent to an alleged affairContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Sept 18, 2022: Pakistan has had one of the worst floods in their history. At least 1,335 people are reported killed. Roads, crops, homes and bridges have been washed away. Already in severe economic crisis, with the floods, according to the planning minister of Pakistan,Continue Reading
By Yogendra Yadav Kanniyakumari, Sept 14, 2022: If we have to resist majoritarianism, we must turn to the three ideological pillars of Dravidian politics: Regionalism, rationalism, and social justice in new ways. Have you ever seen a south-up map of the world? A south-up map changes your worldview, upside down,Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Sept 5, 2022: A state-level peace and harmony convention was held in Odisha August 25 on the 14th anniversary of the Kandhamal communal massacre in this eastern Indian state. For new readers, the 2008 Kandhamal communal violence stands out as an organized attack. It was theContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Every year, September 5 is celebrated as Teachers’ Day. Like our parents, it was our teachers who moulded us to be someone in society. I remember when I was a child, we used to have special events to felicitate our teachers. I have come across manyContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Sept 4, 2022: The inspiration for these reflections came from an article by Hilal Ahmed in which he was describing what ‘BJP can teach Congress.’ He said, ‘Political success comes from ideas, not intellectual laziness.’ (Times of India 29.08.2022) Would it be that success inContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, Sept 2, 2022: Gujarat Carnage (2002) was one of the major acts of anti -minority violence. It was a catastrophe which took the degree of violence, hate and ghettoization to higher degree. Much before the violence the term, “Gujarat: Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra” was well popularized.Continue Reading