By Matters India Reporter Patna, March 7, 2024: Some 200 women, representing mostly slums in the eastern Indian city of Patna, celebrated the International Women’s Day by pledging to protect the country’s Constitution and democracy. The March 6 program was inspired by the “Kittur Declaration” that urged Indian women toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mangaluru, August 9, 2023: The contribution of Jesuit Father Jerome D’Souza as one of the architects of the Indian Constitution was recalled at a function in Mangaluru, southern India. Father D’Souza (1897-1977), a native of Mangaluru, was a member of India’s Constituent Assembly that met 1946-1950Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, May 22, 2023: A top court in western India has lifted prohibition imposed on a Christian couple to preach their religion upholding the constitutional right of a citizen to practice and profess one’s religion. The May 19 order of the Goa bench of Bombay HighContinue Reading
By Dorothy Fernandes Patna, Feb 17, 2023: India has changed a great deal over the past few months. When the reins of governance moved to the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, people welcomed the change, but gradually the party’s hidden agenda is becoming evident. The hidden agenda seems to beContinue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, May 4, 2022: On April 23, during his two-day pastoral visit to Bengaluru, Apostolic Nuncio to India Archbishop Leopold Girelli’s exhorted Indian Catholics to be “vocal” about the rights of all minority groups in India. It’s a `wake-up’ call because the nuncio has noticed thatContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Jan 26, 2022: On this Republic Day, I think about how our Constitution came into effect on January 26, 1950 — a day celebrated and observed most solemnly than our Independence Day, August 15. And I pray for my country. As pre-novices, we served on FridaysContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore: The dignity of individual is the topmost universal value of the Indian Constitution, asserts Supreme Court lawyer M P Raju. Fraternity and dignity of the Individual are based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the lawyer told 270 participants of a webinar organized by Indore’Continue Reading
By Ajay Kumar Singh Bhubaneswar: We observe Minority Rights on December 18. It is time we critically examined how India empowers and protects the rights of minorities. There is no internationally agreed definition as to which groups constitute minorities. Francesco Capotorti, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Sub-Commission on PreventionContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Jan. 17, 2020: It is not an insignificant fact that most of the tall leaders of India’s freedom movement — were formatively influenced by the Christian culture via their exposure to the West. Sri Aurobindo lived with a Christian priest-family for several years in England. GandhiContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 25, 2019: India’s largest forum for Protestant and Orthodox Churches on March 24 launched weeklong prayers for a new government. “Constitutionally, the Indian state cannot have any appeasement to any religion whether majority or minority. The contemporary tendency to polarize people in theContinue Reading