By Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata, October 23, 2026: For nearly eight years, I regularly shouted slogans at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, alongside poor senior citizens from rural Bengal and Dalit and Adivasi women and men demanding food, work and pension rights. We travelled from Kolkata in unreserved compartments, walked to protestContinue Reading

By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, April 4, 2026: Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is one of the central tenets of Christianity, and Easter is the celebration of this profound faith. Christians believe that just as Jesus rose from the dead, they too will rise to eternal life after death. BeyondContinue Reading

By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 22, 2024: Please don’t make haste, or waste your breath on condemning me for even asking such an audacious question. It is not altogether irrelevant or irreverent. Some years ago, there was a huge outcry in Kerala over the Malayalam drama “The Sixth Wound;” an adaptationContinue Reading

By chhotebhai Kanpur, April 4, 2023: Most of us would have heard of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1970 musical “Jesus Christ Superstar.” It was an attempt to re-present Christ in a modern day idiom. Nobody will have heard of Jesus and The Rolling Stones, the jazz group Mick Jagger founded inContinue Reading

He came to befriend the lowly and down trodden – the last, least, lost and those sans Labor, Lodging & Land – with the warmth of tenderness and mercy spreading through the angel song: “Peace to men of good will.” How can anyone fail to respond?Continue Reading