Rome: These days, WhatsApp messages from my 75-year-old nun-friend wakes me up. What a surprising development. She sends me good morning messages, good night messages, prayers, and even some good jokes. It is interesting to see the increasing number of religious men and women using the apps. The users rangeContinue Reading
Rome: The unholiest of scandals has erupted inside the Holy See — yet again. Vatican finances have always been unsavory, but in recent years Europe’s smallest state has acquired a reputation as the most corrupt on the Continent. Now the cardinal who until he was sacked in September was inContinue Reading
Bengaluru: The Nirbhaya incident in 2012 was followed by spontaneous nation-wide (also world-wide) protests, candle light marches, rallies and meetings etc. After this, many were under the impression that rape will come to a sudden halt all over India. Sadly, the opposite is happening. My 21-year-old daughter, who just finishedContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Sept 13, 2020: In January this year, a Bengaluru-based NGO conducted a baseline survey among the migrant workers who were mainly from Bihar, UP and Odisha. Out of the 100 men interviewed, 20 men did not know to write their names. They also could notContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Sept 3, 2020: The World has been battling with Covid-19 since December 2019. No light is visible yet at the end of the seemingly unending and uncertain ‘viral tunnel’ through which the world seems to be dragged through. Clinical spectrum of Covid-19, which ranges fromContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Aug 31, 2020: Just a couple of days before his retirement from the Supreme Court, Justice Arun Mishra gave (perhaps unwittingly) the people of India a very special gift: a ONE RUPEE COIN! It was in the form of the ‘punishment’ meted out to seniorContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Aug 26, 2020: Ouch! They’ve done it again. Those Gandhi topi wearing Congress wallahs. The original Gandhi topi has been replaced by another Gandhi hat – the obsequious and sycophantic one, before the descendants of another Gandhi – Indira. This sycophancy was at its worst display atContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Sameer Yasir New Delhi, Aug. 20, 2020: A father and son were hauled into a small police station in the southern Indian town of Sathankulam in June after arguing with police officers When friends and family members went to the station, they heard screams emanating fromContinue Reading
By Haritha John New Delhi, Aug 17, 2020: Jayan Joseph migrated from Parassala in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram to Kannur district about four decades ago. Now 73, has worked as a daily wage laborer, head load worker, fish seller, and also cleaned wells and ponds. Born into a Scheduled Caste Hindu community,Continue Reading
Fr. J. Felix Raj, SJFr. J. Felix Raj, SJ Kolkata, August 16, 2020: India completed 73 years as an Independent nation on August 15. With a total population of 138.13 crore as of August 7, 2020, which is 17.7 per cent of the world’s population, India is the largest democracyContinue Reading