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
Recent trends raise questions about the future of missionary vocations from IndiaContinue Reading
Church takes dialogue to differently-abled at grassrootsContinue Reading
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
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
Around 40,000 children are abducted in India every year, of which at least 11,000 remain untracedContinue Reading
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
Over 200 years, Goa’s tiatr has taken many shapes, addressed many more issues Continue Reading
SHILLONG: Superstition kills! This very notion which is still very much prevalent in certain pockets of the state has for the past few years instilled a sense of insecurity, the act of which has dragged the term ‘Democracy’ to ‘Demon-crazy’. It may be reminded that issue of Witch hunting orContinue Reading
By providing legal aid, Sister Joicy now helps many tribal families to find their dignity and rights in society.Continue Reading
