By Augustine Singh Balliguda, Feb 23, 2020: Asmita Digal who became a widow in the anti-Christian persecution of 2008 in Kandhamal district, Odisha, eastern India. The 33-year-old woman is the youngest of five girls and two sons of late Ram Nayak and mother Mabati Nayak. Her father died in 2010,Continue Reading
By Puneet Nicholas Yadav New Delhi, Feb 22, 2020: The Caravan magazine has attracted attention in recent years, both for shining the torch on media itself and for its dogged pursuit of ‘tough’ stories. The magazine’s executive editor Vinod K. Jose talks about the state of journalism and what drivesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, Feb 4, 2020: Sister Mariam Anupa Kujur is the first member of the Daughters of St. Anne, a Ranchi-based congregation, to receive doctorate in canon law. On Feb 3, Sister Kujur defended her dissertation at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. Her thesis was on “RightsContinue Reading
By Palak Agrawal Pune, Jan 10, 2020: Nikhil Prasad Baji has put a stamp on the lines, “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” The 31-year-old, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from birth, fought against the odds to crack theContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar, Jan 9, 2020: Medical negligence in 2003 cost Tapaswini Das her eyesight, but that could not prevent the 23-year-old girl from cracking the Odisha civil services exam. Das, who lost her eyesight in the second grade in Bhubaneswar’s DAV School, secured 161st rank in the 2018 examination when theContinue Reading
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain Burdwan, Jan. 5, 2010: Samima Khatun, the daughter of an imam from West Bengal’s East Burdwan district, has been awarded a travel grant to present her paper at an international conference in London. The conference is co-organized by Imperial College London and University College London. TheContinue Reading
By Prapti Sarkar California, Dec 27, 2019: Sandya Narayanswami breaks expectations and norms to live life on her own rules. At the age of 60, she got her pilot‘s license. She has two postdocs and a doctorate to her name already. In an interview with SheThePeople.TV, Narayanswami speaks on battlingContinue Reading
By Navin Noronha Mumbai, Dec. 26, 2019: Christmas tends to be a difficult time for the queer folk. The festival that celebrates family and togetherness isn’t exactly forgiving to those who have been abandoned by their kin or have had to walk out. This festival used to be my jam.Continue Reading
By Santosh Digal Manila, Nov 13, 2019: Fabian Dawson, a multiple-award-winning journalist, internationally acclaimed author, filmmaker and media expert, received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jack Webster excellence in journalism gala in Canada early November. The Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jack Webster Foundation based in Vancouver,Continue Reading
By Santosh Digal Manila, November 9, 2019: Carmelite of Mary Immaculate Father Mathew Chandrankunnel heads Ecumenical Christian Centre (ECC), a Protestant-initiated institute in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka state. The center was set up in 1963 by the late Reverend M. A. Thomas of the Mar Thoma Church to promote “unityContinue Reading
