C.M. Paul The book Mahatma GANDHI – A Journalist and Editor edited by Dr Mrinal Chatterjee and Snehasis Sur is a tribute to the father of the nation on his 150th birth anniversary from Press Club, Kolkata – oldest Press Club in the subcontinent established in 1945, as it celebratesContinue Reading
Shady Lewis Botros says his recently published novel — “Ways of the Lord” — can be broadly viewed as an attempt to answer one question: What it’s like to be a Christian in Egypt? The answer, given in stories narrated by the book’s chief character, is complex and often disheartening.Continue Reading
A collection of letters between M.K. Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and British missionary Charles Freer Andrews
C.M. Paul Darjeeling — “Human trafficking is one of the biggest criminal enterprises in the world along with drugs and arms trade,” says a scholar from Darjeeling. The International Labour Organization’s recent report identifies three kinds of human trafficking, including forced labour, forced sexual exploitation, and state imposed forced labour.Continue Reading
C.M. Paul Guwahati — A lone voice that has undertaken several peace initiatives over several decades in the conflict ridden northeast India has come out with a new book chronicling and reflecting on the saga of violence perpetrated down the ages. “The book is precisely about the “Collective Anger” thatContinue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Joseph Mani, the author of this book, is a BSc; MSc in Physics and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He has also done his studies in Philosophy, Religion, Literature and Linguistics. With such a varied all-round academic background, it is no wonder Mr Mani has written suchContinue Reading
Reviewed by: Roshan Shah This book, by an Indian Catholic theologian, is one of the best critiques of atheism I’ve come across—not just for its many cogent arguments, but also for its engaging, down-to-earth style that makes it easily understandable even to a ‘lay’ readership, beyond the narrow confines ofContinue Reading
In Hinduism, the right to spiritual equality is restricted. In glossing over the fact in his new book, Shashi Tharoor is playing into the hands of the proponents of HindutvaContinue Reading
How Asia embraced Jesus and understood his messageContinue Reading
This is not ‘one of those publications’ one may call those pious sanitized bland ones available in numerous and different from in various parts of IndiaContinue Reading
