Monthly Archive: January 2022
A press of a button. A high-tech algorithm. A malicious login. These were the doorway to the auction of conscience last week when the hammer of hate came down on the bazaar block of technology. Sulli deals and Bulli Bai...
dr james kottoor Note: “Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change.” — SantoshKalwar As a child, I believed — all children do I suppose...
Mattersindia.com 21 January 2022 By Matters India Reporter Editorial Note: In NDTV on 18th January 2022, Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and former Rajya Sabha Member Brinda Karat wrote: "The Acquittal of Kerala Bishop Is...
james kottoor At the Fag-end of my life on earth, I am convinced more & more, that no such distinctions exist but only ONE to be human – saint or sinner, rich or poor, learned or ignorant! That is...
Cover image: Franco Mulakkal The article below is in continuation of last night's report captioned Why Bishop Franco Mulakkal's Acquittal In Nun Rape Case Is Flawed? This article in NDTV gives a very dispassionate dissection purely from a legal angle, of the Kerala Trial court's...
The Trial Court adopted a technical approach without appreciating the constraints under which a nun lives and the power dynamics involved in the case. On 14th January 2022, the Additional District and Sessions Court in Kottayam acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal on...
In Matters India, Jan.16, 2022 james kottoor “Live in hope, only to die in despair!” Is that the only option for living one’s convictions here on earth called a “Vale of tears!”, if you can’t prove your convictions? It looks...
“Say the truth and take the conse- quences! Jesus did it and was crucified!” For me it was more a weakness than a virtue, not to say a lie! As a teen-ager I used to see my father smoking beedy!...
Rocca, Francis X’s article in New York Times was forwarded by Arul Louis, a top Journalist now in NY. He used to be my apprentice teenager in 1960s to study rudiments of Journalism when I was editor of New Leader,...
Cover photo: Fr Michael Bhaju (bouquet in hand) is felicitated on 7th September 2021 on the 59th Anniversary on his Priestly Ordination. Vicar General Fr Dominic Gomes sings full-throttle (Source: Archdiocese of Calcutta website). Isaac Gomes reports from Kolkata On...
james kottoor Please read below a few quotes gathered at random: “Once we strip ourselves of our robes, prerogatives, positions and titles, all of us are lepers in need of healing. Christmas is the living reminder of this realisation.” Pope...