There are claims and counter allegations that our Union Minister for Human Resource Development (an euphemism for Education) has been to, or enrolled, at three different colleges. What is not clear is whether or not the lady, whose earlier claim to fame was that of a heroine in a TV soap opera, is actually a…

Never mind Gulliver and the Lilliputians, or David slaying Goliath. There is now a reversal of roles, with a giant Goliath trying to destroy a defenseless David. The dramatis personae are the present political dispensation on the one hand, and its attempt to belittle or sideline Gandhiji, the original one, the Mahatma, on the other….

This piece is being written the day after I saw the Republic Day Parade (RDP) on TV in the morning, and the movie “Airlift” in the evening. One was truly uplifting, and the other the complete opposite – totally downgrading or derogatory, as far as the country is concerned. The RDP took me all the…

Shortly after the Paris carnage I, perchance, read a column in The Times of India, by Jug Suraiya, an avowed agnostic/ atheist. He asserted that such turmoil could never end because it was caused by religion, that had a powerful CEO – God! Coming from an agnostic, such an accusation was not surprising. But publishing…

Ban-Ban-Bangs-galore! This time it’s not the BJP, but the AAP Govt in Delhi that is subscribing to the Big Ban theory; from which even the Supreme Court seems to have taken a cue. The BJP banned beef and eggs. In France the hijab is banned. Recently Whatsapp was temporarily banned in Brazil. Now cars in…

“Glimpses into the Uniqueness of Recent Popes” by Rev Desmond deSouza Cssr, Media House, New Delhi, Pages 158, Price Rs 180/-. This book was released by Abp Filip Neri Ferrao of Goa and former Foreign Minister, Eduardo Falleiro, at the Mandovi Hotel, Panaji, Goa, on 13th November. Rev deSouza is a Redemptorist priest who has…