Mother Teresa helps pro life warrior’s fight
2016-06-21
A deformed girl’s response changed Reggie foreverContinue Reading
Catholic nuns nurse the sick at Hindu festival
2016-06-18
Ujjain: Sr. Alice Purayidom administered an IV drip to Omi Devi, who had suffered severe sunstroke. Devi’s husband, Dariya Singh Donda, stood anxiously near her bed inside a makeshift tent that functioned as a dispensary. At least 50 others waited their turn outside the tin-roofed dispensary set up by theContinue Reading
Odisha festival ‘Raja’ breaks taboo by celebrating menstruation
2016-06-16
Months after social media erupted in rage over Sabarimala temple’s long-held tradition of barring women of menstruating age for being ‘impure’, Odisha is celebrating the biological cycle that many consider taboo. Wednesday was the second day of the annual three-day Raja – pronounced Ro-jo – festival marked with fanfare byContinue Reading
Kerala’s dwindling missionaries
2016-06-13
Recent trends raise questions about the future of missionary vocations from IndiaContinue Reading
Church helps differently-abled at Kumbh Mela
2016-06-09
Church takes dialogue to differently-abled at grassrootsContinue Reading
The lonely struggle of India’s anti-nuclear protesters
2016-06-06
Women are leading protests in Tamil Nadu state against a power plant – yet few people in India know the village they’re from, let alone support their causeContinue Reading
Dancing away from drugs
2016-06-04
In a matter of minutes, a flash mob pops up and melts into the bowels of Sarai Kale Khan village, a slum in front of a bus terminal by that name on Ring Road in Delhi. Two makeshift blue-coloured tin shelters allotted for the homeless by the government on theContinue Reading
Traffickers in India turn 300,000 children street beggars
2016-06-02
Around 40,000 children are abducted in India every year, of which at least 11,000 remain untracedContinue Reading
Isolated soldiers on Indo-China border invent new saints for protection
2016-05-28
Indian army enlisted man Jitender Singh Sehrawat has had a few close calls. When lightning tore through the roof of his bunker at a high-altitude post on the Chinese border one recent afternoon, it blasted a hole in a metal mess plate lying feet from where he was standing. Miraculously,Continue Reading
‘Loretta’ takes cue from 200-year-old Goan ‘tiatr’
2016-05-27
Over 200 years, Goa’s tiatr has taken many shapes, addressed many more issues Continue Reading