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CITIZENS UNITE AGAINST CITIZENSHIP ACT
Most civil society and human rights activists had fixed 19th December for a nationwide protest against the recently enacted Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the Central Govt’s proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). Together they form a lethal combination, not just against the Minorities, but more so against the landless and undocumented poor that form…
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BOOK REVIEW: A SCATHING INDICTMENT
“Lay Catechists – Their Formation in India.” Edited by Rev C.M. Paul SDB (Nitika, Kolkata: Pages 206, Price Rs. 150.00) This book is an outcome of the Nitika Silver Jubilee seminar on “Lay Catechist Formation in India”, held in Kolkata in November 2002. It is a compilation of the various presentations by 14 resource persons,…
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THE GRAIPE OF GOA
What a word! My word, it isn’t. Ask our very own wordsmith – Shashi Tharoor. So why did I choose such an obnoxious sounding word? It is actually a combination of three words – Grape, Gripe and Rape; with which I have taken poetic licence to write some prose! The first word, Grape, came to…
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MARANATHA OR MANNA?
Christmas is a time when devout Christians use the invocation “Maranatha”. It is the concluding line in the Bible that means “Come Lord Jesus” (Rev 22:20). It is most appropriate for Advent. This phrase is earlier used by St Paul in his benediction to the Corinthians (cf 1 Cor 16:22), where the expression means “Our…
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SOMETHING FISHY!
As a northerner foodie I prefer meat to fish. I like it fried crisp, whereas those in the south may prefer a curry. Since my wife is more the southern type, whenever she prepares mackerel (aila in Malyalam or bangra in Konkani), she fries the torso crisp and makes a gelatinous curry with the heads.…
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GANDHIJI’S SEVEN SISTERS
(A sequel to “Gandhiji’s Quest for Truth“) It’s done and dusted, Mahatma Gandhi’s sesquicentennial birth anniversary. So we may now conveniently forget him and return to our humdrum lives. After all, no less than the PM has pompously declared rural India to be Open Defecation Free (ODF)! What more can we expect of the Mahatma?…
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Your play on the words scribe, scribble, scrabble and scramble is very apt and has neatly traced the route to…
I really envy the depth of your scriptural knowledge and its sitz in laben , unfortunately I sing the hymn…
Thank you for this insightful piece. Your parallel between the biblical scribes and modern bureaucracies hits the nail on the…
Quantum of sorrow appropriate title Just thinking of the trauma those Altar boys r going through
The term ‘Laity’ (Greek word) that means the common man, devoid of knowledge or power, still holds good today in…