By Sujata Jena Manila, March 10, 2020: In Manila, the Philippines: I meet the homeless along the street, begging at doors, camping under the bridge, stopping vehicles on the road asking for coins, lying on the sidewalks — so frail and exposed to rain and sun. I was prejudiced, skepticalContinue Reading
Julio Ribeiro March 9, 2020: Today, I grieve for my country as never before! The prospect of a resurgent India, respected in the comity of nations, is slowly fading in the sudden flurry of Hindutva forces yearning for a Hindu Rashtra! I remember my first journey beyond Indian shores. ItContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, March 8, 2020: “How are you celebrating women’s day?” a friend asked me. This raised a question in me — do we still need to celebrate International Women’s Day? It is a debate that rages every March 8. It becomes a particularly louder conversation each yearContinue Reading
Chiang Mai, March 7, 2020: International Women’s Day (IWD) is an occasion to celebrate collective acts of courage and perseverance of women in their determination to achieve equality and transform society. Ending prejudice against women is a prerequisite for securing their fundamental rights. This year’s IWD theme, An Equal WorldContinue Reading
Dear Cardinal Oswald, Greetings from the group of Catholic women who are in solidarity with survivors of clergy sexual abuse of the Catholic Church in India! We are happy to know that the bishops who had gathered at the biennial gathering of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) inContinue Reading
By Tejaswi Ravinder Hyderabad, March 6, 2020:On a humid November morning, I walked inside the Bar Council building on the premises of Telangana High Court at Hyderabad. The first thing that caught my attention in the building was the huge wooden board hanging on the wall in the guest lounge.Continue Reading
By Susanna Tuscano Mumbai, Feb 25, 2020: One of the common problems I have come across in Catholic circles is the lack of potential spouses for those young people who take their faith seriously. Catholics are already a minority in India (where only around 2.5 percent of the population isContinue Reading
By Shini Melukunnel Jharsuguda, Feb 23, 2020: Anmol is a thin and tall, but shy boy. He is fond of sports but least interested in studies. He came to me asking for help in his studies. In the beginning, he was open and willingly did all his homework. Gradually heContinue Reading
By Stan Swamy Dumka, Feb 20, 2020: The second half of 2019 (July – December) was both a very trying but sobering experience for me. The Jharkhand police were after me and I was after the police. The difference was the police acted illegally and I acted legally. Issue ofContinue Reading
Abhijeet Jadhav There is a routine to my visit to my native place in Nagaland — my grandmother asks me to massage her lower back and the joints. Back in the day she would collect kernels of groundnuts from a local oil mill and prepare a cooking stove by makingContinue Reading
