This title is in Latin, meaning “Where are you going, Mother Church?” I have never studied Latin, so if my grammar is incorrect I hope to be pardoned. “Quo Vadis” is the name of a famous book and movie, based on an encounter between St Peter, the first pope, and the risen Christ. Peter asks…

(A sequel to “The Rapist in Me”) Some things don’t go away, like the Delhi gang rape case, which continues to make news, even a month later.  Initially I felt that the protests were media hype directed more at the Government and the police.  That is when I wrote “The Rapist in Me”, because I…

Does this sound like a lethal expose?  It may or may not be, depending on how “shock proof” you, the reader, are.  So ready yourself for some eclectic shocks! I am a senior citizen, happily married, with two grown-up children.  Though financially burdened I cannot pretend to be under privileged.  I was educated in elite…

That primary particle of creation, that Boson, that “God Particle”, still seems to elude the nuclear scientists and astro-physicists at the Cern laboratory in Switzerland.  There is another P that seems to elude humanity; despite, or maybe because of, our pursuit of other P’s. A macro-economist may refer to three P’s – Purchasing Power Parity. …

The deaths of Savita and Kasab have raised many issues of mortality and morality. In the calm after the storm it is time for some enlightened debate, devoid of passion and rhetoric. Both deaths brought into sharp focus the Catholic Church’s position on both mortality and its morality. Most of the views expressed, especially in…

The animal in us stinks.  Think of Nithari, of Mohinder Singh Pander and his servant Surendra Koli.  Think of picking up the newspaper every morning, or switching on the TV news in the evening, to be bombarded with gut wrenching images of decomposed bodies, skulls and bones.  Think of wailing and angry parents, corrupt policemen…