India gets five saints in eight years
2016-03-17
Five of six Indian saints came within the last eight yearsContinue Reading
For 150 years, a guardian of faith
2016-03-14
It was built in 1862 as a Protestant garrison churchContinue Reading
A mother’s struggle to keep sons ‘alive and kicking’
2016-03-09
Kochi: Thirty-five-year-old Ruby S is the mother to two of Kerala’s most promising footballers – Midhun and Mijun Mathias, 15 and 13 years respectively. But her immediate concern is not how her children will fare in their next game of football, but about how to feed them when they returnContinue Reading
Women who refuse to do India’s dirtiest job
2016-03-02
Ranikumari Khokar is campaigning to end a caste-based practice that condemns women to cleaning human waste by handContinue Reading
Civil service officer beats blindness with vision
2016-02-29
Patna boy pens fictional novel on hostility differently abled people faceContinue Reading
‘No idea can be anti-national’
2016-02-25
“Shall we sit in the sun?” asks Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, pulling a garden chair behind him. An old nameplate bearing his late dentist father’s name is still fixed on the front wall of the nearly 100-year-old house, surrounded by mango and Dehradun’s famous litchi trees. “I spend time sitting hereContinue Reading
Missionary of Mercy from Indian Salesians
2016-02-23
Pope has sent forth 1,000 Missionaries of MercyContinue Reading
Garo women asked to return to weaving
2016-02-19
Selsella: Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma today inaugurated a common facility centre-cum-handloom production unit in this town in West Garo Hills in a bid to provide local weavers an opportunity to start their own ventures. The unit was set up as part of a special initiative of the state governmentContinue Reading
Village forms ‘ hargila army’
2016-02-18
Dadara: It’s an army without arms. “Armed” with the commitment to conserve greater adjutant storks, 14 women self-help groups of Dadara village in Kamrup district have formed a ” hargila army”, under the leadership of NGO Aaranyak’s greater adjutant stork project team. The aim of the “army” is to removeContinue Reading
Gospel of the doughty Thomas
2016-02-18
On April 4, 1579, a young Englishman named Thomas Stephens boarded the Laurenco, a ship sailing to India, at Lisbon, Portugal, clinging to his most precious possession: his faith. A Roman Catholic, he was compelled to leave Wiltshire, his hometown in England, as it was a time when Catholics were beingContinue Reading