By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, April 15, 2024: The season of Lent for every Christian is a time of prayer and penance. So, it was not surprising to me that some of my community members raised their eyebrows when I suggested that we watch a movie running in the nearby theater.Continue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, March 30, 2024: Some places are dearer to us than the others. The places of our birth or upbringing, the school where we studied or the shrine where we found deep peace and joy are endearing. Similarly, we are likely to have persons and thingsContinue 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
Mumbai: A family here has finally agreed to bury their son, 11 days after he died of cancer in a hospital. The family waited for these many days to inter him in the hope of “resurrection”. 17-year-old Meshach died on October 26. Meshach’s father Octavio Nevis, instead of preparing forContinue Reading