Bengaluru: Its 12 noon at the government school in DJ Halli, northeast Bengaluru. Hundreds of little faces are fixed on the van that has carried their lunch. For 15 years, every afternoon, the Bengaluru headquartered Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) has been bringing smiles on faces of 1.4 million children. AndContinue Reading
Thundathil, an Augustinian nun, set up the enclave for leprosy patients at Sendhwa, a village in Barwani district in the central Indian state of Madhya PradeshContinue Reading
Charismatic priest CR Prabhu looks back at 50 golden yearsContinue Reading
Coal town entrepreneur to get award on R-Day for green initiatives at Govindpur factoryContinue Reading
NGO helps village women earn money by hand-dyeing fabricContinue Reading
What is Makara Jyothi and Makaravilakku ? A celestial star known as Makara Jyothi is seen every year on 14th January. On this day, every year thousands of pilgrims from all over the country visit Sabarimala. The Government of Kerala receives huge revenue from these pilgrimages during their visit toContinue Reading
Kochi – A group of boys in their early teens who set out to chase their missionary dreams caught up with each other for the first time after 50 years, 16 January 2016 at Pachalam. Twenty one batch mates, among them six priests, took part at the meeting. They were recruitedContinue Reading
Walking through narrow bylanes of Marol village in Andheri East, one can hear the evening service in progress at the village church. As Hallelujahs fills the air, you suddenly realise that barely a few hundred metres from busy roads and honking traffic in one of Mumbai’s busiest suburbs, the villageContinue Reading
The members of Pandya dynasty ousted by Thirumala Naicker the ruler of the erstwhile Pandya Empire spanning Madurai, Thirunelveli and Ramanathapuram lived in places like Valliyur, Tenkasi, Shengottah, Achankovil and Sivagiri. They had also established their supremacy in parts of Travancore, and some of them belonging to Chempazhanattu Kovil inContinue Reading
Udvada is an obscure hamlet in India’s western Gujarat state which houses the holiest fire of India’s Parsi community. Legend has it that it was consecrated some 12 centuries ago on the nearby Sanjan beach, landing point of a boatload of refugees who had fled the Arab conquest of PersiaContinue Reading
