By: James Norton It should go without saying that India is a complicated place, a churning cauldron of languages, ethnicities, castes, and religions bubbling atop and throughout one another in a perplexing mass that we call, for the sake of convenience, a “nation.” But to many Western readers, the story ofContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar: Bibhuti Pattnaik, eminent Odia writer on Jund 23 formally released the book “Kandhamal: Introspection of Initiative for Justice 2007-2015” written by noted Supreme Court lawyer Vrinda Grover and law academic Saumya Uma at Lohiya Academy, Bhubaneswar. The 304-page book is divided into six chapters, and makesContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Chronicling 40 years in the life of a religious institute province may sound frivolous to centenarian religious congregations and their provinces. However, the story of a small band of six youthful missionaries from south India who ventured into extreme northeast India frontier missions with no prior knowledge ofContinue Reading
by Ram Puniyani Kandhalmal: Introspection for Initiative for Justice 2007-2015 by Vrinda Grover and Saumya Uma; Media House and United Christian Forum Delhi; 2017. Violence is the bane of the Indian society and a manifest agenda of the communal forces which thrive on divisive politics and polarisation. This is partContinue Reading
By: Vangmayi Parakala Raghu Rai already has three books on Mother Teresa to his credit. The first was published in 1996, a year before her death, a second in 2003 and the third in 2005. Now, six months after her canonization by the Vatican as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, RaiContinue Reading
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Reviewed by: Mohsin Khan Hardly a day passes without the media reporting some violent barbarity somewhere in the world being committed in the name of Islam. Today, there is an urgent need for popularising an alternate understanding of Islam, one rooted in a commitment to peace, nonviolence and inter-community harmony.Continue Reading
Divided into nine parts, and free of any narrative baggage, How I Became A Tree could also be read from anywhere in betweenContinue Reading
Karukku is an autobiography that chronicles Bama’s life, from her childhood to her early adult life as a nun, and beyond. The book was originally written by her in Tamil’: An Autobiography By Bama Exploring Her Tamil, Dalit And Christian IdentityContinue Reading
By: Roshan Shah Author: S. Ignacimuthu Publisher: St Pauls, Mumbai Year: 2010 Pages: 126 ISBN: 978-93-5015-001-6 Price: Rs. 80 That the earth is today faced with a grave ecological crisis few would deny. Because of unbridled greed, leading to over-consumption and over-production, a huge proportion of the earth’s resources hasContinue Reading
