Cover image: Pope Francis delivers the Urbi and Orbi ("To the City and To the World") prayer in an empty St. Peter's Square Friday evening. Yara Nardi/POOL/AFP via Getty Images by Fr Cedric Prakash SJ 29 March 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxvkiPkH7qo&authuser=0...
International relations Globalisation was put in place by the international business conglomerates for establishing hegemony in world trade. In the beginning developed economies such as US, Japan and a few emerging economies viz. South Korea, Thailand reaped the benefits. Then China...
Gods fleeing from Covid-19 with their tails tucked between their legs. Hats off to you, James for publishing the incisive article, “Gods Flee First” by Taslima Nasreem. The punch lines to me are “Gods are saviours for many, the ones they...
Found in ‘ThePrint’, 20/3/2020/: Mecca to Vatican: COVID-19 proves when human beings are in peril, gods flee first Taslima Nasreen. The author is a celebrated writer and commentator. In the pic: Saudi Arabia Reopens Mecca, Medina Holy Sites After Coronavirus Note: What is...
james kottoor Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian thinker, coined the term 'Global Village' in the 1960s. He was highlighting the results of the coming of internet, which wiped out totally and instantly the distances of space and time – space to...
Varghese Pamplanil My initial reaction on reading the article by John Horvat II was to read it as a revisionist one. The writer seemed to have made an attempt to revive the paradigm of going back to the almost extinct, at least in...
Cover photo: Adam's Creation by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rome.Jörg Bittner Unna / Creative Commons LIFESITE NEWS John Horvat II Monday March 16, 2020 Note: Triumph of fact over faith? Reason over belief, banish religion from public space, stop...
GEORGE NEDUPARAMBIL Our columnists George (Latin Rite) and Pamplanil (Syromalabar Rite) belong to the two main factions of the Catholic Church in India. Both are frankly-speaking lay stalwarts on religion and politics. ‘Covid 19’ has brought them together...
The above article in the light of Coronavavirus by Shri Varghese Pamplanil was very timely and in the fitness of things. In this connection, I would like to share snippets of my perspective on the issue. Many a time bad...
Sri Varghese Pamplanil is more than a neighbour and friend to me. He is a staunch promoter of value everywhere. He talks not from his Kanjirapplly experience. He has travelled widely and also is a voracious reader. Thank you Varghese sir for...
Note: Given below is a very innovative article in today's Times of India, from Derek O'Brien, who is the Leader of the Trinamool Congress in the Rajya Sabha. He suggested the use of social media to crowd-source issues and...
Cover photo: South Korean soldiers spraying disinfectant in front of a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu last week. Some people are calling for the sect to be dissolved and its founder to be charged with “murder through...
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...
One of Narendra Modi’s proudest promises, that he will restore India’s prestige across the world, now proves more difficult to deliver than ever. Global press on Modi's role in the Delhi riots. James Manor, FROM:...
Its image is getting undermined in the Islamic world. This will hurt Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, on Twitter, condemned what he called the “wave of organised violence against Indian Muslims”. (REUTERS) Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey are some of our neighbours,...
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...
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What Have You Done?
"I was hungry, and you formed a humanities club, and discussed my hunger.
I was imprisoned, and you crept of quietly to your chapel in the cellar and prayed for my release.
I was naked, and in your mind you debated the morality of my appearance.
I was sick, and you knelt and thanked God for your good health.
I was homeless, and you preached to me the spiritual shelter of the love of God.
I was lonely, and you left me alone to pray for me.
You seem so holy, so close to God:
But I am still very hungry, and lonely and cold.
So where have your prayers gone? What have they done?
What does it profit a man to go through his book of prayers, when the rest of the world is crying for help.
-Bob Rawland
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