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*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 4 December 2018 On almost every sector, India has been faring very poorly on human rights. The situation has been deteriorating since the past four years. In the 2018 Human Development Index, India has...
Editorial in New Indian Express 29th November 2018 Note: There is a distorted assumption, also wide spread, that to be a communist is to be in the wrong. Why? On two points: 1. That they bring about human...
# chhotebhai It was a cold winter Beijing night. Joseph Xi and Mary Li were expecting their first baby. The ultrasound test showed that it was to be a boy, a wonder boy. So they had decided to call...
Mary Meehan, in America, Jesuit weekly November 20, 1982 Deacon John Flanigan holds a sign during a vigil outside St. Louis University College Church Jan. 28 ahead the execution of Missouri death-row inmate Herbert Smulls of St. Louis. (CNS photo/Lisa...
by Phyllis Zagano in National Catholic Reporter Nov 22, 2018 Note: “God created man, male and female, in God’s own image and likness”, is the first article of Faith, Christians believe and profess. That no one believes any more...
*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 25 November 2018 On 26 November, the country observes yet another ‘Constitution Day’, the day on which in 1949, the Constituent Assembly adopted and gave to the people of India a landmark Constitution. The Constitution...
Times of India Editorial Page Saubhik Chakrabarti That three of the five states where assembly elections are on are straight BJP versus Congress battles has temporarily shifted national attention from the biggest conundrum in next year’s national polls...
Cover Photo: UN Women/Fatma ElzahraaYassin -*Fr Cedric Prakash SJ 24th November 2018 According to the United Nations, “Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our...
By Christophe Jaffrelot, in the Indian Express, Nov. 20, 2018 The choice in Sabarimala is clear: It’s ethno-religious political entrepreneurs vs social reform According to the leaked tapes, when the head priest of Sabarimala asked Pillai whether locking the sanctum...
Note: Whether you like it or not, only the humble is going to be exalted in the long run, because humility is the truth. No matter how great and powerful one is, all of us have something to learn...
By Aakar Patel, in Rediff.Com, November 21, 2018 'There will be an instant and positive change in the way Rahul Gandhi is perceived by millions if he says he is not a candidate for PM,' suggests Aakar Patel. Note: Weather...
According to the leaked tapes, when the head priest of Sabarimala asked Pillai whether locking the sanctum sanctorum to prevent young women from entering would be “contempt of court”, he responded in the negative. * Christophe Jaffrelot in...
Cover Photo: Express Illustration by Soumyadip Sinha THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS 19th November 2018 * VALSON THAMPU What is propagated thereafter, in the name of God, has only one shaping purpose—to promote the interests of the priestly class at...
chhotebhai The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) and the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) jointly organized a Dalit Christian (DC) solidarity Sunday on 11th November. I’m not sure if the event was limited to Delhi,...
*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ The fourteenth of November, for several reasons, has always been a special day in my life. This year 2018, the day was simply an extraordinary one, made so by different people and events....
‘Christianity’ is a world religion that professes faith in a God of infinite love, mercy, compassion and forgiveness as revealed to humankind by Lord Jesus Christ. Faith in this one true God and a living and loving relationship with Lord...
Javed Akhtar was speaking at Sahitya AajTak, a three-day literature festival in New Delhi where he asserted that loving your country is as natural as loving your parents. India Today.in 18th November 2018 Cover photo: From the Angry Young...
LifeSite News Shane Schaetzel Nov 16, 2018 Note: Lost faith in Bishops and the Pope? That is not the same as saying, Faith in the Catholic Church or even in Jesus the Nazarene. The Catholic Church is wider than...
TOI Editorial Page By Ashok Vohra in Speaking Tree June 27, 2018 Note: Who coined the word “Hindutva?” It was Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. For him first requisite of a follower of Hindutva is citizenship, Fatherland=‘Holy land’, cradle land, that...
Editorial View, in Asian ‘Age, Nov 14, 2018 Extensive research by the BBC World Service has thrown light on what India has known for a while as an incipient problem of fake news. The political atmosphere is so vitiated, though,...