By Fr Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, May 2, 2022: There are books and books: some are meant to decorate bookshelves, others are read and forgotten; then there are still others, when internalized are inspirational, motivating the reader to action. The newly released book, “If Not Now, When? Disquieting Feminist Questions,” clearlyContinue Reading
By Varuvel Robert Title: Hello, Neighbourocracy! Author: Edwin Maria John (edwimjohn@gmail.com) Pages:64 Pay as you wish at https://childrenparliament.in/project/hello-neighbourocracy/ Way back in the 1960s, Edwin M John, as a seminarian, was an ardent and avid reader of Christopher Movement publications. The spirit and principles of the movement as represented by booksContinue Reading
In the last months of his life, Stan Swamy was in the news for all the wrong reasons—starting with what he firmly maintained was his wrongful arrest and detention as a co-accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case, to being denied a sipper tumbler in prison, which he requestedContinue Reading
By Shevlin Sebastian Kochi: During the years I lived in Calcutta, I would frequently travel through Free School Street on my way to work at the Sportsworld office, near Chittaranjan Avenue. And always, I would go past a huge garbage dump. Expectedly, I took a deep breath moments before, pushedContinue Reading
By: Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Our hypnotized brains keep on doing one thing all through our waking hours and that is binge thinking, opines a Divine Word Missionary priest, Ittoop Panikulam, a counselor and psychotherapist, presently the director of Dhyan Kutir (a house of meditation), Mumbai. He considers this inbuilt habit asContinue Reading
A new book about the Jesuits celebrates 500 years of the Society of Jesus, as seen through the eyes of its first Latin American Father General, Father Arturo Sosa SJ: Walking with Ignatius: A Celebration of the Society of Jesus. Consisting of a series of interviews with Spanish journalist DarioContinue Reading
By C M Paul Darjeeling: Living in Darjeeling, a place connected to Mother Teresa’s ‘call within the call,’ I find the latest book ‘Mother Teresa, The Saint and Her Nation’ a fascinating reading as it offers hitherto unknown information about the saint. In the present work Gëzim Alpion probably theContinue Reading
Meraki: My Dark Inklings by Reshmi Rose Tom is a book of poetry full of teenage passions, unrequited love of a restless heart baring pathos of longing and betrayal. In deed, time is a bitch, she says! True to its title, Meraki (passion) poems encase teenage girl’s first love, passionateContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad: Decoding is never child’s play! But when one is entrusted with the task of sifting and sieving the past, present and future, the fact from the fiction, the possibility from the impossibility, the probability from the improbability, the simple from the complex, then one is notContinue Reading
Guwahati: Creative Fidelity in Mission is a book of reflections for a personal retreat in Covid Times. It is authored by motivational speaker and popular retreat preacher Salesian Fr. V.M.Thomas Vattathara of Guwahati province. The 260 page book by former president of Conference of Religious India and former Chancellor ofContinue Reading
