Bitter bites
2016-04-11
Nagaon district has 8,050 registered lemon growers and lemon orchards were planted in 2,680 hectaresContinue Reading
Where religions coexist, gender equality is unmatched
2016-04-10
Kochi: Back in the summer of 2015, the heart of a Hindu man was transported across Kerala for a Christian patient in dire need of a new one. Funds were raised by a Muslim businessman to pay for the operation and performed by the state’s top heart surgeon: a Christian. TheContinue Reading
West Bengal’s tribal belt faces culture clash
2016-04-08
West Midnapore: Class began with a prayer. Thirty-odd children, sitting cross-legged on the courtyard outside Jamboni village’s sole clubhouse, chanted Saraswati Vandana. A picture of the goddess and two lit incense sticks sat on a chair in front of them. This is just one of the 50,000-odd schools being run byContinue Reading
NASA satellites unlock secret to northern India’s vanishing water
2016-04-06
Beneath northern India’s irrigated fields of wheat, rice, and barley … beneath its densely populated cities of Jaiphur and New Delhi, the groundwater has been disappearing. Halfway around the world, hydrologists, including Matt Rodell of NASA, have been hunting for it. Where is northern India’s underground water supply going? AccordingContinue Reading
Providing shelter and love for forsaken women
2016-04-05
Pune: Sr. Lucy Kurien was the only Catholic among 20 women that the Indian government honored with the Nari Shakti Puraskar, a women’s empowerment award, on March 8, International Women’s Day, for outstanding contribution to society. The member of the Holy Cross of Chavanod is the founder of Maher (“MyContinue Reading
Morality and moralizing are different
2016-04-04
Bengaluru: Thirty eight years after Professor Bernard Haering came out with a three- volume ‘Free and Faithful in Christ’ a vacuum is being felt as far as a complete, consistent, coherent and up-to-date presentation of Christian Moral Theology is concerned. The long overdue re-thinking and re-presentation of moral theology isContinue Reading
Woman who made 100 Rajasthan villages fertile
2016-03-28
Amla Ruia has transformed the face of over 100 villages in Rajasthan by using traditional water harvesting techniques and building check dams. This is the story of how she made it all possible by engaging the local community and generating an income of Rs. 300 crores per annum for 2Continue Reading
Brewing magic in garden
2016-03-23
Next time, when you pick a pricey coffee jar from a supermarket, think of growing a plant at homeContinue Reading
Dinkoists, India’s new religious minority
2016-03-23
Dinkoism has existed from time immemorialContinue Reading
India gets five saints in eight years
2016-03-17
Five of six Indian saints came within the last eight yearsContinue Reading