By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, October 4, 2026: Nearly 500 citizens under the leadership of a catholic priest celebrated the Gandhi Jayanthi – birth anniversary – October 2 in Bengaluru by pledging to build 50 homes for the homeless within an year. “It was a dream of Mahatma Gandhi that everyoneContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthamkuzhy New Delhi, October 4, 2026: Archbishop Anil J. T. Couto of Delhi urged Christians to seek personal conversion and become credible witnesses of Christ by living the Gospel through love, unity, service and action. He was talking at an ecumenical prayer meeting for India with the themeContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, September 25, 2026: It is no coincidence that Gandhi Jayanti, to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, is celebrated on October 2 and the feast of St Francis of Assisi on October 4. They have much in common, especially their extreme form of renunciation and humility.Continue Reading
By Jose Kuttianimattathil Rome, July 24, 2026: “What can I do?” Many of us ask this question when confronted with injustice, the erosion of human rights, and the growing disregard for truth that we witness every day. Too often, however, the question is not born of a desire to actContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Feb 4, 2024: Today’s socioeconomic, religious and political scenario in the country frightens me. I wonder whether we live in a civilised and a democratic society when we see the ushering-in of Rama Rajya by constructing Ram temple at Ayodhya. The pro-corporate policies of theContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru: One of the seven crimes about which Mahatma Gandhiji mentioned was Education without character. During the past one year we have been witnessing increasing cases of crimes committed by school and college students. Such crimes have been highlighted by various English and Vernacular newspapers. SomeContinue Reading
Malawi : A bust of renowned Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has been unveiled in the Malawian capital, Lilongwe, two years after critics prevented a Gandhi statue from being erected in the southern city of Blantyre. The Indian high commission’s original plans in 2018 met stiff resistance from some localsContinue Reading
London, Aug 13, 2020: A pair of Mahatma Gandhi’s glasses are to go on sale after spending a weekend sticking halfway out of an auction house’s letterbox on a busy industrial estate in Bristol in UK. Staff at East Bristol Auctions found the glasses in a plain envelope on aContinue Reading
London, 3rd August 2020: Mahatma Gandhi will be the first non-white person on British currency. The Royal Mint Advisory Committee, which recommends themes and designs for coins, has started work on a coin featuring the Indian independence leader in the UK. Gandhi was assassinated five months after the end ofContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, July 4, 2020: During the course of agitation ‘Black lives matter’ some protestors defaced the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in US. Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of Indian Nation, has the unique distinction of leading the biggest ever mass movement in the world and leading the strongContinue Reading
