Veg vendor’s daughter battles double amputation to become doctor
2018-07-31
Roshanara found help from people across religions and political partiesContinue Reading
Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns try a scientific approach
2018-07-27
Justin Chen Where do compassion and empathy come from? What makes life sentient? Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns have grappled with these questions for centuries but, for the first time in their history, they are using science to help find the answers. This summer, as they have the past severalContinue Reading
Despite broken hearts, prisoners dare to smile
2018-07-13
By Matters India Reporter Raipur: Despite broken hearts, prisoners in Raipur Central Jail, smile, says a Catholic nun. “My idea of prisoners was changed by visiting them regularly. Formerly I thought they have done mistakes and they are punished. And they deserve it. But now I feel compassion for them.Continue Reading
When Carnatic music calls a nun
2018-07-08
Wearing her veil, congregation’s uniform and sporting a calm smile, Sr Linet Antony SKD would match anyone’s concept of a Christian nun. But once the Kannur native gets on to the stage and starts singing, the listeners can’t help not being pleasantly surprised. For, she can sign a Vathapi GanapathiContinue Reading
‘Our fingers bleed’: India’s female miners toil over sandstone export
2018-07-07
In Bhilwara district, in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, sandstone slabs form a makeshift fence around a field, marking the boundaries of a temporary worksite. In the centre, *Seema, a tall young woman, lifts sandstone cobbles into large wooden crates. A firm in Jaipur, the state capital, has orderedContinue Reading
Why many women in India refuse water during a heatwave
2018-07-05
By Pooja Chhabria The sun is at its peak, the heat in the high 40s Celsius. In an urban slum in India’s capital Delhi, Mona [not her real name] deliberately avoids drinking water. She is fearful it will make her need to urinate. “Sometimes, I drink less water because theContinue Reading
Glowing tributes paid to Apostle of Arunachal
2018-07-03
“Prem Bhai preached forgiveness and understanding to everyoneContinue Reading
Crown princes of the Goan soil
2018-07-02
Karachi’s Joseph Coutts was among 14 new cardinals to be created from around the world on Thursday and when Pope Francis presented him with the red hat, he became the fifth person of Goan origin to be appointed to the cardinalate. Coutts, 72, who traces his roots to Aldona andContinue Reading
Jharkhand gangrape and Jesuit’s arrest
2018-06-30
By P. A. Chacko On June 19 some armed men wearing masks abducted at gunpoint the members of a street play team at Kochang village in Khunti district (South Chotanagpur), some 100 km from Jharkhand’s state capital Ranchi. They were taken to the forest. While the male members were keptContinue Reading
Celebrating the goddess who bleeds
2018-06-24
Kamakhya, atop Nilachal Hills in Guwahati, is one of 51 shaktipeeths or seat of Shakti followersContinue Reading