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WHY WAS MARY MISSING?
Why was Mary missing from what Christians consider the most momentous event in salvation history and the most defining moment in human history – the Resurrection? Was it an oversight on the part of the four evangelists reporting the event? In my book “Beyond 2000” written for the third millennium of Christianity I had termed…
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SEEING RED
Last week the Prime Minister dramatically announced that red beacons would be removed from the cars of netas and babus. The gullible junta applauded. What the PM did not say was whether the hooters/ sirens on these vehicles and their escorts, with which they cut a swathe through dense traffic, would also be dispensed with.…
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LEGAL EAGLE
Readers will pardon me for my penchant for birds (both varieties)! Post the State elections I wrote “The Dove and the Crow”, followed by “From Crow to Hawk”. Now I have climbed the evolutionary ladder to call this piece “Legal Eagle”. It does have a touch of the best seller “Where Eagles Dare”. Except that…
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THE DOVE AND THE CROW
The morning after the election results were out was chilly, not just because of the chilling results. A chill wind was indeed blowing, one that could bode ill for the country. The BJP’s electoral sweep in U.P. had chilled me to the bone, so I was trying to catch a little sun in the garden.…
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FROM CROW TO HAWK
My earlier piece on the State elections was titled “”The Dove and the Crow”. This corollary is “From Crow to Hawk”. I had also thought of calling it “A Mandate Betrayed”, or “The Butchering of Democracy”. All three would fit the bill. I received an unprecedented response to my previous article under reference. Most respondents…
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A VEILED THREAT
Christian women could feel threatened by a recent article “Why Women Wear Veils in Church” written by one Susanna Spencer. It appeared in a pious journal published by a renowned pilgrim centre for hopeless cases. It was hopelessly off the mark, as I shall presently expound. Spencer claims that Christian women always covered their heads…
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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…