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Sanju Samson's Silent Prayer was the Loudest Thanks giving
In a country where cricket is not just a game but considered next only to religion, a spectacle unfolded on March 1 inside the mammoth and iconic Eden Gardens cricket stadium in Kolkata, where the Indian and West Indies teams played the last of the Super...
Stooping Beyond a Limit
When Himanta Biswa Sarma exited his parent party, the Indian National Congress, in 2015 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, not too many eyebrows were raised since such leapfrogging from one political party to the other was nothing new in Indian politi...
The Culture of othering: An unhealthy trend
A German Lutheran pastor, Martin Niemöller, was against the Communist ideology and also against Semitism. His distaste for them made him a natural ally and supporter of Rudolf Hitler. When Hitler ultimately assumed power and insisted on the supremacy of t...
Persecutions in the land of Tagore, Vivekananda, and Gandhi
India is fortunate to have given birth to Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, and Mahatma Gandhi, who inspired generations not only in India but across the world. Apart from their liberal thinking, their thoughts on religious freedom were monumental a...
Zubeen Garg unites people even in his death
Many ordinary people who are not connected to music and art might not have even heard of Zubeen Garg, despite him being an iconic artist and a person who cared for others. However, after his unfortunate and untimely demise on September 19, 2025, social me...
From a Murderer to a Pilgrim of Faith
Prior to June 27, 2025, not many people in this country and elsewhere would have heard of Chengu@Sudharsan@Chandu Hansda, who at the age of 13 turned into a murderer when he joined the mob that brutally burnt alive an Australian missionary, Graham Stewart...
The Pope didn't Sulk or Shun
The Vatican News released a video of Pope Francis extending Easter greetings to a multitude of people at St. Peter's Square in Rome, which was one day before his final journey to the eternal world. A close look at that video reveals that the Holy Father w...
The CBCI blinks yet again
The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) has yet again shown a lack of wisdom in making decisions on crucial matters, despite being regarded as a father figure by an estimated 23 million Catholics in this country. While the organization may dismiss...
Weaving a Christian Relationship
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, in his book, Toward A True Kinship of Faith, wrote, "I have boundless respect for my Buddhist faith, but to see it within the context of its brother and sister religions has afforded me a vision of the grandeur and exten...
Wasteful Practices: A kind of Societal disease
Recently, an observant reader wrote an interesting and thought-provoking letter to the editor of a popular weekly, narrating how an ordinary boy’s unprecedented move almost caused a nervous breakdown for two families in Mulund who met to finalise the rela...
Is the CBCI admitting that Catholic Schools are indeed converting people?
Provoked by series of wild allegations on Christian institutes converting students from other religions, the NECARF Review ran an editorial as early as October 2022 under the caption "Forced Conversions: Christian Response to the Allegations." The editori...
The Catholic Disconnect
Since May 3, 2023, Manipur has seen unprecedented lawlessness, resulting in the murders of over a hundred individuals and the destruction of several homes and places of worship—an ethnic cleansing mayhem likened by many to the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Rwand...