By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata: As Bengal struggled to have the right leadership for over a month, all the calculations, all the predictions to dethrone the ruling government went wrong. Our Didi emerged as a pragmatic, down to earth politician to lead Bengal once again through her hat-trick win inContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: Currently (April 2021) India is passing through its worst period as Covid-19 Phase II is at its peak, with high rate of infectivity and mortality. The shortage of beds, Oxygen, test facilities and medicines is the cause of concern all over. The victims and their familiesContinue Reading
Lest we forget, conspiracy theories have a crucial role in the mismanagement of the covid-19 crisis across the world. Let us take the examples of US, Brazil and India. Rulers of all the three nations ignored the virus, used conspiracy theories to consolidate their power to varying degrees, and nowContinue Reading
Dumka: In post-Covid world, if there will be one, what will be the shape of humanity? How many of us will survive? If someone were to ask, whether any human beings will survive, what will be our answer? As it is, even the best of our scientists will have noContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata: With the death of Archbishop Lucan Sirkar on April 18, the Church in Bengal lost a stalwart leader whose major concern was to build local leadership with local resources. Archbishop Lucas succeeded Archbishop Henry D’Souza on April 14, 2000, and remained Archbishop until Feb 23,Continue Reading
Editorial in National Catholic Reporter In 2018, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops published “Open Wide Our Hearts: An Enduring Call to Love.” The pastoral letter was the first collective bishops’ statement on racism in almost 40 years and describes the discrimination against Latinos, African Americans and Native Americans. ItContinue Reading
By Tejaswi Ravinder Hyderabad: After mass terror attacks in 2009, inter-ethnic marriages in north-western China’s Xinjiang have become very rare. In 2013, when 24-year-old Mawlan, born to Uyghur parents and a musician by profession, secretly married his girlfriend, Ma Jie, a Han, they attracted media’s attention. “I acted first andContinue Reading
By Suresh Mathew New Delhi: The ‘turncoat’ Christian leaders might pontificate portraying a picture of secular India under the BJP-rule. A section of the Church authorities might say that everything is hunky-dory for the Christians, and other minorities, under the saffron-rule. But the ground reality is far from what theyContinue Reading
By Markandey Katju New Delhi: The recent harassment of Christian nuns from Kerala in Jhansi by Bajrang Dal goons, and also the police, must be unequivocally condemned as a disgrace to our country. Nuns are women who render great service to society in the fields of education and health care.Continue Reading
By Fr Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad: Even a cursory glance at the realities which grip India today, will make one realize how grim the situation is. On every global parameter, from the happiness index to the freedom one; from democracy to economic indicators, the country has plummeted miserably and as neverContinue Reading