Monthly Archive: May 2017
dr. james kottoor Emmanuel Macron’s 39, victory is called “spectacular” in comparison to his opponent Le Pen’s thorough defeat for her “militant extremism” and nationalism. What is striking is, all editorial commentaries alwys cite Trump victory and Brexit on...
AGENCIES, in The Hindu MAY 08, 2017 (Note: Twenty world leaders speak up in jubilation immediately in support of Emmanuel Macron on his victory. If this is not a SLAP on the face of UK and US led isolationists,...
dr. james kottoor “Landmark win”, “fierce challenge from the far-right” are the phrases used to describe Macron’s resounding victory. Forecasters had already pointed out, it was going to be a cake-walk for him. What is more, what was pointed...
(Note: Nirbhaya died in Delhi in 2012 as a victim of gang rape now so common in India. It took nearly five years for courts in India and its Judges to climb to the heights of ‘Nirbhaya’ (fearlessness) to hand...
EDITORIALS in Hindustan Times May 05, 2017 Cover Photo: Rajasthani women show their Aadhaar cards while standing in a queue to vote in the Ajmer District Panchayat elections. (PTI) The Attorney General’s comments in the Supreme Court calling an individual’s bodily...
By Patrick Marnham, in The Tablet, UK, 04 May 2017 (Note: Tomorrow is the D-day for France and the Soothsayers have the field day to predict. But what is it for those who see it from an other worldly, eternal angle...
Parishioners and their priest must work together to create a vibrant parish community. By Rosie McCarty U.S. CATHOLIC (Note: An interesting article based on a survey in the U.S. CATHOLIS May 2017 Issue. Have our churches in India ever carried...
By Rosie McCarty When I was growing up, my family belonged to a vibrant, close-knit parish community. It was a parish with a lot of history—my dad grew up there, and many other families had also been members for decades....
Why? They don’t belong to you any way is the new court ruling! None of us is permanent and absolute owners even of our own bodies and its parts, is the substance of Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi’s ruling, given in the...
Harsh Mander , in Hindustan Times, May 01, 2017 RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat may have called for a nationwide ban on cow slaughter only now, but the rot had set in much earlier Cover Photo: Uttar...
By Kapil Sibal in Times of India, May 2, 2017 (Note: Who is a true Hindu? One described and exemplified by a Vivekananda and Mahatma or one preached and practised by the RSS? Evidently the latter seems to be the one...
Purposeful bonding with people is governing Yogi also said that for him, politics was a responsibility and a duty and not a position meant for enjoyment. In THE ASIAN AGE, Published May 2, 2017 (Note: Like it or not, Indian...
Burkha Dutt in Hindustan Times, Apr 29, 2017 As the list of people murdered by ‘gau rakshaks’ continues to rise, it is time to call murder by its name, instead of cloaking it in euphemisms such as manhandling and...
Rajdeep Sardesai in Hindustan Times, Apr 29, 2017 It is not a morally and intellectually bankrupt Opposition but the sheer diversity of India that offers the biggest challenge to any attempt to impose a religio-cultural homogeneity across...