chhotebhai's Writings

  • DID JESUS SPEAK LATIN?

    Readers will pardon me for asking another audacious question. They will also note that I often write in response to current issues. This time it is a riposte to an article “Reviving the Old Latin Mass would be a colossal mistake” published in Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) on 26th September, written by Robert…

  • ICONOCLASM – YESTERDAY & TODAY

    Iconoclasm is the destruction of things (often held sacred or precious), persons or even ideas. What is an icon? Millennials would be familiar with the icons (symbols) on their mobile phones, laptops or computers. Originally, an icon was usually a religious symbol, object or painting, often from the Byzantine Empire. For example, the popular picture…

  • VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS – POLITICAL & SPIRITUAL

    Nepal is in the news for the saddest of reasons – a political volcanic eruption led by youth disenchanted by the political system; its corruption and opaqueness. This is déjà vu for what happened in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. With three neighbours in political turmoil, can big brother India remain unscathed?  There have been similar…

  • WHERE IS GOD?

    Those watching TV on 27th August evening would have been jolted by two tragic events. The first was of hundreds of pilgrims washed away in flash floods/ landslides in the Jammu region. The second instant was of two young girls shot dead while praying in a Catholic school in Minneapolis, USA. Both incidents were when…

  • HAIL THE DOG – JAIL THE HOUND

    Donald Duck Trump has made a laughing stock of his country. Far from making it great again he is taking it down into the dumps. Are we Indians heading in the same direction? It would seem so, from the way we are treating our dogs. Thanks to the latest order from the Supreme Court, dogs…

  • BOOK REVIEW: MANIPUR’S ATOM BOMB

    (Manipur’s experience with AFSPA by John Shilshi IPS Retd, Rs 499/- Pgs 328 Hard Cover, published by White Falcon Publishing) Exactly eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atom bombs are again in the news. Rahul Gandhi has claimed to have dropped an atom bomb on the Election Commission of India through his allegations of vote…

Latest Comments

  1. Your play on the words scribe, scribble, scrabble and scramble is very apt and has neatly traced the route to…

  3. Thank you for this insightful piece. Your parallel between the biblical scribes and modern bureaucracies hits the nail on the…

  4. Quantum of sorrow appropriate title Just thinking of the trauma those Altar boys r going through

  5. Your writing r from your heart and fantastic Help one another as I have helped u