chhotebhai's Writings

  • WHY RAHUL SHOULD QUIT

    This is not a case of kicking a guy when he is down. It could infact be a “pick me up”. My concern is not for the Congress Party per se, but for the nation. I write as a concerned citizen. Readers will have seen my previous articles under this column, wherein I had expressed…

  • EX-COMMUNICATION OR IN COMMUNICATION?

    One would not have expected a furore over ex-communication in the papacy of Pope Francis; who has repeatedly been asking the clergy not to close doors, but to open up the Church to welcome even those with whom it may be seemingly in conflict with. But the unthinkable has happened. Martha and Gert Heizer, a…

  • CROSS CONNECTION – E 2004

    There is a popular belief that Christians blindly vote for the Congress, en bloc. To a great extent the Congress has also allowed itself to believe this. Considering that a Congress led coalition Government is now in power, it would be politically expedient to reaffirm that Christians are Congressites.  Unfortunately, this is far from the…

  • WHERE IS THE GARDEN OF EDEN?

    Biblical exegetes would have us believe that the allegorical Garden of Eden, mentioned in the Book of Genesis, was probably situated between the mighty rivers Tigris and Euphrates, in modern day Iraq. I found Eden at a stone’s throw from the renowned tiger reserve, Corbett National Park. It is known as Vardan Vatika (Garden Gift)…

  • THE ORIGINAL AAM AADMI

    STOP! Don’t flip the page. This is not about the AK assault rifle that hit Delhi with a bang and ended with a whimper. It is also not about the Aam Aadmi Pope, a clever term coined by Dr James Kottoor. The original Aam Aadmi, now that the term has become au currant, is Jesus…

  • NATION FIRST – REGIONS LATER

    Over the years I have voted for the Janata Party, Janata Dal, CPM, Samajwadi, and of late, the Congress. As a social and civic activist I do not belong to any party. Ideologically I would brand myself as a left of centre Gandhian (the original Gandhi – the Mahatma). My votes have been determined more…

Latest Comments

  1. The term ‘Laity’ (Greek word) that means the common man, devoid of knowledge or power, still holds good today in…

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

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

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