By Alok Pandey Lucknow, May 11, 2020: Om Prakash was on a 1,000-km journey to his home in Bihar’s Saran. The 20-year-old construction worker in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida walked 200 km to reach Agra where he found a truck driver willing to take him to Lucknow, 350 km ahead,Continue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, May 5, 2020: A priest in India who is also a professionally trained chef has gained a new audience during the coronavirus lockdown. Father Warner D’Souza, who heads St Jude’s Church in Mumbai, told Crux “people want food recipes and I want to share Jesus.” The priest’sContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kansabel, May 3, 2020: A middle-aged woman wanted to hug Sister Annie Jesus Mary who was distributing relief packets in scorching heat in a remote hilly region of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. “Madam, thank you. Your compassion has satisfied our hunger. Indeed God hasContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 2, 2020: Dr Geetanjali Chopra has had an enviable career graph. She is a graduate in journalism from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, and has a master’s degree in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has also done M PhilContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, April 30, 2020: An NGO launched two decades ago by a Catholic nun in Patna to campaign for the shelter rights of poor is currently busy helping those affected by the nationwide lockdown. Presentation Sister Dorothy Fernandes, founder director of Aashray Abhiyan (AA, Campaigning forContinue Reading
Mumbai, April 25, 2020: On April 11, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wore a white homemade cloth mask during a video conference call with political leaders around the country. Five days earlier, his government had recommended that Indians use homemade face masks in densely populated cities to protect themselves fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, April 21, 2020: The Patna province of Congregation of Jesus that works among those affected by lockdown in eastern India is forced to deal with other social issues too. “People were already struggling with drought and poverty when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the nationwideContinue Reading
By Fr S Ignacimuthu, SJ Palayamkottai, April 19, 2020: From initial days of my research pursuit, I have always wanted to concentrate on issues related to people. So, during My PhD research I worked on developing new varieties of urad and mung beans with high protein content using mutation geneticsContinue Reading
Some 900,000 female community health workers are on the frontline as part of India’s battle against Covid-19. But they are poorly paid, ill-prepared and vulnerable to attacks and social stigma, reports BBC Marathi’s Shrikant Bangale. “The value of our life is just 30 rupees [less than $1], according to theContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak, I P Sarto Burdwan, April 16, 2020: Hundreds of migrants, daily laborers, and marginalized in West Bengal’s Burdwan region now thank a Catholic charity for helping them survive the lockdown imposed throughout India to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “God has sent Catholic priests, nuns and others whenContinue Reading
