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
Kamakhya, atop Nilachal Hills in Guwahati, is one of 51 shaktipeeths or seat of Shakti followersContinue Reading
None of the girls from the village had ever appeared for the board examination earlierContinue Reading
Diamond jubilee of Ursuline Sister Benigna VadassseriContinue Reading
Lanigarh: After Tamil Nadu state shut a copper smelter run by Vedanta Resources following deadly protests, the company faces another challenge 1,600 km away, where axe-toting tribesmen and environmentalists have joined forces to demand the closure of an alumina refinery. An alliance of activists and local people have for yearsContinue Reading
It all started with an initiative to build a house for a family in need. Since then, the ‘Zest of Life’ has helped scores more.Continue Reading
Satish Kumar China and India are civilisational states having some similarities but they adopted different ways in the last seven decades. China vehemently rejects religion and categorically terms it as an evil thing. On the other hand, religion has got sympathetic treatment in the independent secular India. The way ofContinue Reading
By Patricia Mukhim Shillong: Shillong was once defined as a pluralistic society. The state of Meghalaya was created without bloodshed in 1972. That was quite an achievement. So the gentry were correct in conjuring images of the Shillong they knew, lived and worked in before 1979 happened. That was theContinue Reading
To bear a vibrant witness to our Christian faith, we need to relentlessly and wholeheartedly work for the poorContinue Reading
Ugyen Gyalpo This was one monsoon season, some twenty summers ago, where the hills of Darjeeling were soaked by non stop rain and surprised by sudden break of sunlight, refracting picturesque rainbows and people welcoming the sun-shower with folkloric songs of the foxes marriages. The fresh crystal rain drops fromContinue Reading
