Calming the Mind for a Healthy Body

We live in an era when life is always under pressure. As a result, tension, depression, anger, jealousy, and hatred are becoming increasingly the order of the day in people's lives, and not only have individuals become threats to their own fellow human be...

04-Jul-2023 Read →

The Power of Words

An organization of repute once reached out to 13 people to write articles on different contemporary topics for their annual publication. Being an important project, each writer was briefed carefully about the word count, deadline, editorial vetting of wor...

05-Feb-2023 Read →

Guarding Against Fake News

We live in a an era where social media rules the roost, when day in and day out, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram etc. are literally flooded with news and information of all hues, making it extremely difficult for users to understand which informati...

04-Dec-2022 Read →

Flesh Trade : The Unseen Connection between Goa and North-East India

The name Goa is synonymous to attraction. Though very small in size, featuring on the map of India almost like a little turtle ducking between two giant States of Maharashtra and Karnataka, Goa is easily one of the most sought after destinations for touri...

26-Jun-2022 Read →

'SILENT NIGHT': Not Just a Song, but a Powerful Prayer.

When the Austrian priest Joseph Mohr wrote the song "Stille Nacht" in 1816 and asked his friend, teacher and Church organist, Franz Gruber to compose the music, he would have never in his wildest of imaginations, thought that the song would be a Christmas...

14-Dec-2021 Read →

Voices beyond the Catholic mourning

Fr. Stan Swamy's death did not come as a surprise. It was waiting to happen because not only was he a frail 84-year old, but he had several health complications from the time he was taken to Jail in connection with a terror charge, which many in this free...

15-Jul-2021 Read →

POCSO and its Salient Features

In Indian society, child abuse (particularly of girls) has mostly been kept under wraps. Going public, in the form of registering complaints etc, has seen families being shamed and ostracized and the survivor being victimized for years, affecting even fut...

14-Feb-2021 Read →