With the sun perched firmly above his head, 10-year-old Shahjahan is busy scrounging for bottles and plastic on the top of the several metres high Ghazipur landfill site. He goes to school, he says, but is here because it is a holiday. This monstrosity of a garbage dump, that getsContinue Reading
Saji Thomas Kanta Parbat Makwana had only stories of rejection and hopelessness to tell until members of a congregation of Catholic nuns entered her life. The 90-year-old Hindu widow says she wanted to end her life, but her religious upbringing had held her back. “I no more think of deathContinue Reading
By Ariel Sophia Bardi Chandigarh: A few years ago, Tanu Sharma’s father was planning to marry her off as soon as she completed her high school studies. Now, that she has completed her high school, Suresh Kumar wants her to pursue her education and supports whatever she decides to become.Continue Reading
By Philip Mathew Chennai: Sr. Josephine Amala Valarmathi was not surprised when she got a telephone call around midnight in the last week of October 2016. On the other end was a fisherman who goes by the name Veerghese. He was among 15 fishermen from the southeastern Indian state ofContinue Reading
Kochi: “I saw a light engulfing the world, and within this light I found answers to questions which have been haunting me for years,” said Betty Alex, as she lay blindfolded in a conference hall. It may sound crazy to some. But people who have a spiritual bent of mind,Continue Reading
Indigenous beliefs go parallel with Christianity among Khasi people of MeghalayaContinue Reading
Father Durack came to India in 1951 and visited his homeland only onceContinue Reading
Father Zelazek spent five years in a German concentration campContinue Reading
Paradip: Priests of a 1000-year-old temple in Odishas Jagatsinghpur district have stopped performing puja of two wheelers if the riders are not equipped with helmets. The management of the temple of Goddess Maa Sarala abiding by police instructions started implementing the ?no helmet-no puja? policy a month ago by refusingContinue Reading
Monalisa Das Bengaluru: For the past three months, members of Maraa, a Bengaluru-based media and arts collective, have been going around with a purse collecting stories of sexual harassment from students in the city. Called ‘Radio in a Purse’, the initiative gives youngsters a platform to their share experiences, testimonials,Continue Reading
