Cover photo: Rahul Gandhi with Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kamal Nath. (Twitter / Rahul Gandhi)   Hindustan Times, New Delhi 10 March 2020 Aurangzeb Naqshbandi   Yotiraditya Scindia’s decision caps weeks and months of speculation about his plans. In his letter...

  From VARGHESE PAMPLANIL   Congratulations to George Nedumparambil for his excellent exposition on “Yes Bank” Permit me to add something more. The operating financial resources of banks are, share capital and other owned funds, deposits and borrowings (mainly from RBI...

    GEORGE NEDUPARAMBIL   A week  ago I wrote to Gerge:   “Dear George,   You are a banker, can you please explain this to me, an ignorant know-nothing about banking. There may be more idiots like me. For their benefit, please write...

  VARGHESE PAMPLANIL   Mr Varghese Pamplanil a writer par excellence, is a master at churning out mind-boggling articles.  He always backs up his analytical findings with history and statistical data.  In this eye-opener he has traced the actual background of an...

Cover image: A man carrying a child walks past security forces in a riot-affected area in New Delhi, February 27, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi The Hindutva project of finishing off the minorities has only just begun. Sidharth Bhatia THE WIRE 4 March...

                                                                                       Joseph Mani   Joseph Mani, writer of BEYOND GODS & SCRIPTURES and several other books and whose articles are very thought-provoking, gives a new dimension to Nationalism (Patriotism). He asks some pertinent...

OUTLOOK Aakar Patel 23 February 2020   The best thing that Modi can hope for in this visit is that he is able to mobilise Indians in America to vote Republican and try and help Trump return to power, writes...

  George Neduparambil Note: Thank you George for setting an example in frankly speaking, more for addressing it pointedly to the editor. Also it is understood letters to editor are meant for all readers to answer,  as it is impossible...

Read  a Historical Thriller story by Varghese Pamplanil!   Note:Another powerful, fascinating, gripping writeup of 14 pages packed with facts historical, precise with names and dates! Hats off to You, Pamplanil, you put me a trained journalist, nowhere, like dwarf beside a giant!...

(In the pic: A file photo of then Pope Benedict XVI blessing the faithful at St. Peter's Basilica,  Vatican City. Benedict XVI  resigned as pope on Feb. 28, 2013). People-of-God, Equality in community is Synodality, Church, not Hierarchy! Reform in the Church comes...

Cover photo: Pope Francis attends a prayer service at the start of the first session Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican in this Oct. 7, 2019, file photo. The Vatican on Feb. 12 released the pope's apostolic exhortation,...

By Martin Bürger, in LifeSite, Thu. Feb 13, 2020 (In the pic. German bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck). While Cardinal Reinhard Marx insisted that married priests and female 'deacons' are still open to debate, others called 'Querida Amazonia' a disappointment for not pushing...

Fr Cedric Prakash S.J.   Dear Catholic Bishops of India, Greetings and good wishes to each one of you, as you gather together today (12 February 2020) for your 34th biennial plenary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI)...

Note: “Kejriwal’s feat in Delhi was equal to that of ‘David vs Goliath” in the Bible, was one of the comments heard on TV. Modi and Shah had thunderd against, the epicenter of all protests in Shaheen Bagh would be...

  Jerome D'Costa Toronto Canada Jerome  D'Costa, blogger, writer, translator, journalist, and photographer, is originally from Bangladesh, and now settled in Canada. His incisive articles are frequently published in Bangladesh Canada and Beyond.  Here he has written a three-part treatise on...