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ALL FALL DOWN
Let’s go back to our childhood nursery rhymes. “Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses, A pocket full of posies; A-tishoo, A-tishoo, We all fall down”. And again, “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again”. This second rhyme is commonly associated…
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JEMIMAH – THE FEARLESS
Have I spelt Jeremiah wrongly? No. This is not about an ancient prophet, but about a modern young social influencer – Jemimah Rodrigues, the 24 year old Indian women’s cricket sensation. Let me make a frank admission – I am an unabashed fan of our Indian women’s cricket team. My earlier favourite was Mithali Raj,…
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CHRISTMAS – HISTORY OR MYSTERY
Where was the Holy Family when Herod ordered the killing of the children in Bethlehem? As we approach Christmas, this question began to haunt me. It forced me to look deeply into the infancy narratives in both Mathew’s and Luke’s gospels. As a layman without any scriptural studies, I also had to take recourse to…
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WAS JESUS CHASTE?
( A sequel to “Playing on his Mind”) Please don’t make haste, or waste your breath on condemning me for even asking such an audacious question. It is not altogether irrelevant or irreverent. Some years ago there was a huge outcry in Kerala over the Malayalam drama “The Sixth Wound”; an adaptation from “The Last…
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PLAYING ON HIS MIND
What does a dying man think of? What is uppermost in his mind, obviously. Have we ever reflected on what Jesus’ last thoughts were before his impending cruel death on a Tau shaped cross? He would have seen many slaves/ criminals dying such a tortuous death, dangling in agony for three or more days while…
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