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Care for the Creation
Before Pope Leo announced a five-week ‘Season of Care,' the world witnessed two instances of human suffering caused by the fury of nature. In the middle of August, Mon district headquarters in Nagaland were flooded, resulting in loss of lives and property...
A moving sight on the bank of Brahmaputra
A wall painting on the compound wall of the late Zubin Garg, the artist who moved many hearts, was clearly visible from the window of the room where I stayed in Guwahati. I assumed that his die-hard fans had painted it a year ago when their iconic hero bi...
Why the prposed Amendment to the FCRA is matter of concern
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 has created a sense fear among the Charitable and Social organisations. It is widely suspected that the bill was intended to target minority faith-based NGOs working for the poorest of the poor in...
Mirabai Chanu won a gold medal wrapped in patriotism.
Exactly six days after the nation went into a state of shock following the merciless thrashing of peaceful student protesters by the police in India’s capital, New Delhi, partly to cover up some of their own failings, including the inability to accurately...
Football opened a window to an unknown Nation
One is not sure how many people in the world would have known or heard about a country by the name of Cabo Verde prior to the commencement of the FIFA World Cup 2026. But beginning with the night the former Portuguese colony created history by holding Spa...
Culture of Presumption: Disservice to a Man who saw no Evil
In May 2026, a popular priest, Fr. Bomax Pereira, suffered a cardiac arrest, and he was treated at the Goa Medical College. He was in the intensive care unit for a few days before he finally gave in and left while still in the ICU. Fr. Bolmax was one prie...
Thank you Kerala, for keeping the Spirit of India alive
The most notable bright spot of the 2026 assembly elections is clearly the manner in which voters in Kerala exercised their franchise; Not because they voted any particular party to power, but because they avoided voting along communal lines. The victorie...
Some Accountability for Social Media platforms
In March, a Los Angeles court hearing a petition filed by a 20-year-old woman, Kaley, who was a minor at the time of filing the case, held Meta and Google guilty of coming up with attention-grabbing applications, resulting in minor addiction to YouTube an...
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...