Monthly Archive: January 2018
Cover Image: Express photo by Abhinav Sabha) (Note: All three editorials in the Times of India of Jan.15th, are on burning issues in India and therefore a Must-read for those who wish to be up to date with latest...
Abhishek Manu Singhvi in Candid Corner – Times of India Jan. 15, 2018 (Note: For too long we have been hearing allegations about corruption among supreme court judges, some stressing they can pin point over 20 instances. The exploding...
Vasanth Srinivasan The Hindu JANUARY 08, 2018 (Note: Tamilnadu politics is really murky and in turmoil for too long after Jaya’s departure. The fact that Rajini’s efforts to emerge as a leader in Tamilnadu is both supported technically and...
Bhadra Sinha Hindustan Times 10th January, 2018 (Note: Heart renting indeed! Weep India, weep, hanging your head in utter shame! How many are the homeless in India? Have you any record of their number — of the...
Varghese Pamplanil Reference Dr. Kottoor’s article in the CCV of 12th, “ Look up to Vivekananda” encompassing gamut of issues, permit me to dwell on just two: Catholic cardinals at the Vatican. (AP) a) On the ‘fake news’...
FR. FRANCIS SUNIL ROSARIO A very indepth and well-researched article by Fr Francis Sunil Rosario from Kolkata, who is now is the USA as Parochial Vicar in the two Churches of Queens, i.e. St. Bartholomew Church, with a residence...
The Statesman January 12, 2018 Bishwajit Bhattacharyya (Note: The light of LOVE lit by Jesus, called the light of the world and Indian luminary Vivekananda in his thirties (died at 39, Jesus at 33) entreats, beckons, begs and exhorts all...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Jwal7ojdsUOXFOeVZfbUlRYTNuMmZmZkhQN0NIYW5kQlhJ Fr Cedric Prakash sj* “Welcoming, Protecting, Promoting and Integrating Migrants and Refugees”, is the theme of the message (Please see link above) of Pope Francis for the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The Catholic Church will observe...
dr. james kottoor In the latest survey of world leaders done by Gallop international, which is usually about politicians in the secular world, the wonder of wonder is this: The highest placed person on the list isn't a...
Indiatoday 11th January 2018 Cover Image: RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav (Photo: PTI) RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is never short of guiles and stagecraft. Even in jail he plays his tricks, while tom-tomming social justice and calling himself...
Police broke open the barrel sealed with concrete on both sides and found the skeleton. (HT Photo) By Ramesh Babu Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthpuram January 08, 2018 Residents said the barrel was floating around the lake for almost a year...
LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL Australia 9 January 2018 Cover image: Clouds hang over St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on the day Cardinal Geroge Pell was charged with sexual assault offences (AP: Gregorio Borgia) Damian Dignan, who lived in...
Indiatoday Dev Ankur Wadhawan | Edited by Ekta Handa Jaipur, January 9, 2018 Almost a year ago (Ref. Times of India, Jaipur 17th January 2017) Rajasthan Education Minister Vasudev Devnani, claimed that cows exhale oxygen, without offering an explanation as to how they...
Note: Coming as it does from our columnist Pamplanil, some diehard believers may even question the relevance of this article itself in the midst of a land controversy which also will die down and we also, to be forgotten for...
By Jose Vallikatt, Indian Currents correspondent (Note: What is it to be a Christian? That is the wrong question to ask, because you don’t have to be one. You have only to be an exemplary human being, after the...
In the Name of Land Lack of transparency and ignorance or misinter- pretations of Canon law, reckless circumvention of structures and policies raise serious moral concerns. (Note: There is a saying in Malayalam: “Kakkan padichal pora, nickan padikkanam.” It means...
Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam–Angamaly on the Controversial Land Deal (Note: Bishop Edayanthrathu the Auxiliary was entrusted with writing this letter by the Cardinal to inform the priests the detailed facts of the land sale....
Fr Dr Suresh Mathew Indian Currents, New Delhi (Note: We have already published several reports on Syromalabar land deal scandal, quoting Times of India report on it. Here is now an opinion about it from our friend Suresh in...
World in utter turmoil of a nuclear ‘Dooms Day’? – In The Week,Jan 5, 2018 In Depth: as euroscepticism gathers pace and Merkel struggles to form a government, Macron is seeking to take the lead Emmanuel Macron is...
File photo of Bofors gun 155mm. Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons THE STATESMAN, KOLKATA 05th January 2018 By Devendra Saksena* The accused in scam cases are extremely...