Who is Running the World?
Early morning, June 1st 2021, I opened my laptop and there appeared the following email to me asking: WHO IS RUNNING THE WORLD? I read the whole and am unable to grasp its global implications; nor able...
Monthly Archive: May 2021
India Has To Be Bigger Than The Ego Of One Leader
NDTV 31 May 2021 Ashutosh Note: The report below which appeared in NDTV has been suggested by Mr Varghese Pamplanil, the erudite thinker and writer of Church Citizens' Voice. Prime Minister Modi has completed seven years in...
PM’s special venom for Mamata and state worrisome – Bengal Chief Secretary transfer bares sour grapes of wrath
Cover photo: On 28th May 2021 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay make a survey of the devastation caused by Cyclone Yaas. PTI 30 May 2021 Jawhar Sircar PM Modi has taken...
Why Vijayan dumped Kerala’s Shailaja teacher?
Shailaja Teacher Came Up Against "Double-Chested" Pinarayi Vijayan, why? Sagarika Ghose, in NDTV: May 19, 2021 37C CM Pinarayi “dumped KK Shailaja teacher!” The first time I read it, my mind responded instantly: “because it casts a dark shadow over Vijayan who...
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra calls out Centre for its ‘callousness’ on Covid
26 May 2021 On Tuesday 25 May Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra clinically dissected the Central Government on its abysmal performance in measuring up to the second wave of Covid-19 (shall we call it Covid-21 because of its new...
Kerala Covid care model Modi govt can learn from
Cover Photo: A deserted MG Road at Thiruvanthapuram on Sunday. PTI 24 May 2021 Shalini Venugopal Bhagat In terms of Covid Care, Kerala stands out as an exceptional case study when it comes to proactive pandemic response,”...
Rate your Leaders & their public approval! Modi vs who? ‘Don’t know/can’t say’
By Shankkar Aiyar, in New Indian Express,23rd May 2021 The Modi Sarkar completes seven years in power next week. A fall in approval rating for Modi? The Ram Bhakta? Who has taken up his life mission to turn Bharath into a...
A Fatal Hubris
Rev. Valson Thampu in THE TELEGRAPH INDIA 17 May 2021 Rev. Valson Thampu writes in his inimitable style, this time drawing from his forte, William Shakespeare. He writes Leaders are of two kinds. The first type loves the...
Almost Half Of Millennials ‘Don’t Know, Care, Or Believe God Exists’, Survey Finds
UNILAD 21 May 2021 Niamh Shackleton Mr Varghese Pamplanil has recommended the following article for the enlightenment of readers of Church Citizens' Voice. A new survey has found that 43% of millennials in the United States ‘don’t...
STAN TAKES A STAND
Cover photo: Fr. Stan Swamy SJ (right) at a protest by indigenous people. -*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 21 May 2021 It was quintessential Stan! In a manner which has come to characterize him Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy...
War always in the land of the Prince of Peace! Israel’s Gaza war ends, but will peace endure?
Cover photo: Palestinians run from sound grenades thrown by Israeli police in front of the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem, Friday, May 21, 202, as a cease-fire took effect between Hamas and Israel after a...
Former Civil Servants Slam Modi Govt for Mishandling Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic. But will Modi heed?
Cover photo: Workers prepare beds for a Covid-19 isolation center that was set up inside a stadium in Srinagar on April 27. Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/Sipa USA THE WIRE 20 May 2021 In an open letter to the prime minister, a...
West Bengal Governor Dhankar’s aggressive posturing exposes BJP Bengal rout shock
19 May 2021 The ruling NDA dispensation at the Centre is simply not able to digest the stark reality that one lady on wheel chair, single-handedly made it bite the dust in the historic electoral battle of Bengal. ...
Gujarati poem criticises Modi govt’s handling of Covid resurgence: Poet dropped from literary events and award nominations
Cover Photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds an online conference with officials of nine states on Tuesday 18 May on Covid management. He described the officials as "Field Commanders" in the fight against Covid-19. PTI 19 May 2021 Mehul...
Government’s COVID Mess Ruined Our Self-Respect. How to ‘be Positive’?
The govt’s handling of COVID has made a mockery of ‘atmanirbharta’ and assaulted our ‘atma-samman’: Shashi Tharoor THE QUINT 13 May 2021 Note: The article below by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has been recommended for CCV readers, by...
SAVIOURS OF HUMANITY ? INDIAN LEADERSHIP’S TALL CLAIM HAS A HUMPTY DUMPTY FALL!
Cover photo: Beneficiaries stand in a queue to recieve COVID-19 vaccine dose, at a vaccination camp in Patiala. PTI Photo/Naveen Sharma Isaac Gomes India is the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world. For years, it has manufactured...
Reflection on Pope’s Synodal Speech Church: Synod, Pyramidal or People of God?
james kottoor Note within Note: We are living at a time when “Constant” doesn’t exist. The only constant is CHANGE! I wanted to write some thing precisely on the above tittle and I found I had written it already and...
COVID-19 is probably India’s greatest challenge since independence, says former RBI Governor and renowned Economist Raghuram Rajan
BUSINESS TODAY 16 May 2021 On Saturday 15th May 2021, speaking at a virtual event organised by the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and world-renowned economist Raghuram Rajan observed...
By the rivers of the heartland and across Vindhyas, proof which politics sucks and which works
Cover photo: The district magistrate informed that teh bodies will be fished out of teh river and cremated with full rites. (Photo: India Today) 15 May, 2021 Shekhar Gupta Editor-in-Chief and Chairman Politics & economics are at the heart...
To ‘Come and See’ is to ‘Be and Do’! ( A reflection on World Communications Day:16 May 2021
*Fr Cedric Prakash SJ Pope Francis has once again thrown a challenge to Catholic Communicators in his annual message for ‘World Communications Day’ which this year falls on Sunday 16 May. In his typically direct yet profound...
