Rushing into a Hindu Rashtra
Modi has proven to the country that he means business. He promised the country the Ram Temple in the very location where the Babri Masjid once proudly stood. He fulfilled…
Dr Ranjan Solomon
The ICJ order and Western revenge on UNRWA
Andrew Mitrovica, an Aljazeera columnist had this to say on the ICJ court ruling: The ICJ ruling was a legal victory at the cost of Palestinian lives. He adds: “Of…
Christmas 2023: How do you find hope in the midst of genocide?
Gaza is going through a murderous genocide at the hands of a barbaric Israeli army assault. It is in this context that Christians around the world must find solidarity in…
Israel’s dilemma: Hamas is here to stay
This news came a surprise and something finally constructive in building a common future for the Palestinians. A report said that “The Palestinian Authority is working with the United States…
A World Cup that went topsy-turvy for the BCCI and India
The recently concluded World Cup started poorly and ended in the same negative pulse. A stadium that could take 130000+ was close-to-empty for the inaugural match. Good organizers would not…
Has Manipur Crossed The Rubicon?
The BJP has done a Humpty Dumpty on Manipur. The Prime Minister’s political acumen, Maan ki Baats, high-pitched oratory, and the massive Bhakt network around the country, nothing at all,…
Uniform Civil Code Will Disrupt, Destroy India’s Pluralism
When ruling dispensations run out of viable ideas on political playoffs, they almost always resort to the politics of compulsion. By contrast, responsible governments which are committed to social progress…
How the Resistance of Palestinians Has Been Defying Israel’s Ongoing ‘Nakba’
The military power of Israel has failed to curb Palestinian resistance. Palestinians are convinced that the might of Israel’s colonialist-apartheid structure will, one day, crumble, due to its lack of…
No Respite In Sight in Manipur
It is now close to two months since Manipur has been in an unrelenting state of violence. The hostilities have assumed cruel forms involving ferocious ethnic fires. Angry masses have…
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s call to erase Portuguese history lands off the mark
Last week, Goans woke up to their newspapers carrying rather uncanny news. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had summoned Goans to eradicate all signs and vestiges of Portuguese rule, and to…
BJP’s Communal Politics Has Deepened Historical Conflicts in Manipur
Tribal communities feel that the BJP-led state government is participating in perilous communal politics by backing the Meiteis as ‘Hindus’ against the tribal people who are predominantly Christian. Manipur has…
The new Parliament house may be dangerously undemocratic
India’s new Parliament House was launched with as much fanfare as there was controversy. For those now in their sixties and seventies who have had occasion to either travel or…
‘The Kerala Story’ – A flawed narrative by an uninformed filmmaker
Sudipto Sen, Director of ‘The Kerala Story”, in his unrestricted arrogance and egotism, claims that his film has “awakened civilization”. This claim is erroneous to its very core! How can…
BJP red-carded in Karnataka
The unmistakable message from the Karnataka elections is that the BJP does not bring stability and substance to governance. The BJP may have ruled Karnataka before. They never managed to…
Caste-class-religion factors in Karnataka elections
Has the Chief Election Commission abandoned its autonomy and independence and chosen to be co-opted as part of the BJP Team? The magazine ‘Outlook’ in a report by by Anisha…
Informal sector must lay claims to deprived rights On May Day
In 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886). May Day commemorates…
Commemorating Ambedkar Jayanthi/ Equality Day
14th April is commemorated each year in the memory of B. R. Ambedkar. Because of his radical stance in favour of the oppressed Dalits, his birthday is referred to as…
Whither democracy after Rahul Gandhi’s unseating?
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi MP from Wayanad lost his membership of Parliament after the verdict of a court in Surat. The Lok Sabha Secretariat hurriedly issued a notification declaring that…
Enough is enough. Restore parliament
The BJP’s protests against Rahul Gandhi’s speech in Cambridge are drawing yawns from the general public by now. News-curious folk who have heard snippets of Rahul Gandhi’s speech in Cambridge…
De-politicize the BCCI
Several years ago, the Australian great, Ian Chappell, warned that the presence of too many political figures in the BCCI impedes its professional functioning. Politicians don’t necessarily make good sports…
Christian persecution and human rights
In the last three years, India ranks as tenth most dangerous for Christians across the world Christians have traditionally adopted a posture of social leadership to the wider community in…
Israel’s right wing adopts suppression. Palestinians are defiant
In a recent commentary from Washington Post, there is description and analysis on the flood of illegal arms into Palestinian communities, including East Jerusalem, where local arms traffickers say “business…
Un-ignite the communal tinderbox
Christians are under frequent threat by the Chief Minister in Goa. Without any real evidence to corroborate false qualms, he has vowed to act with an unyielding hand to put…
Chhattisgarh: Injustice Perpetuated – Systematic campaign of dispossession, denial of identity and choice
At a time when the political and judicial discourse on forcible conversions is moving with animated political fervor in various States around the country, Chhattisgarh is witnessing a somewhat perplexing…
Israel’s crimes-after-crimes ignore international law
Israel’s pogrom to obliterate the Palestinians from the land is ongoing with a vigor and revenge that is picking political momentum. Whether that will work in its intent is another…
Social tourism when “Customer is not King”
When civil society recently came together in Goa under the rallying space of the Centre for Responsible Tourism to explore how the Goan economy could advance tourism in Goa, several…
Israel’s extreme right wing engages in hate and violence
Israel’s worst ever possible choice of government has expectedly started on the wrong foot. The mandate was less extreme than the way things have things turned out to be. Racist…
Make BDS happen
The world awaits in keen anticipation to see how the several combinations of resistance will end the beastly apartheid-colonial system that Israel has chosen as their apparatus of misrule. Militant…
Pretending democracy
Only recently, the Chief Minister of Goa warned the people of the State in rough and ready terms: ‘I will not brook any criticism of the PM’. In the ever-widening…
The impelling need for localizing tourism
The recent clashes involving cruise tourists, tour operators and taxi-folk have lessons that the Goa Tourism ministry can apply. Tourism must, of necessity, bring gains to the hosts who are…
And the winner of the World Cup is…… Qatar!
Palestine won too without even playing! Since the historical decision when Qatar was awarded the FIFA hosting rights in 2010, it has constructed seven gigantic stadiums and refurbished Stadium 974,…
Resistance on the football arena
In addition to the many shock results of several matches at the World Cup, perhaps the biggest upsets have fallen on Israeli fans and the Israeli media. Little did Israel…
Bharath Jodo Yatra proffers new political optimism
When Rahul Gandhi walked side-by-side with Late Gauri Lankesh’s mother, Indira and her sister, in BJP-ruled Karnataka during the Bharath Jodo Yatra, he demonstrated his will to take on the…
The holocaust and the Nakba
Israel and Germany are prolonging their fuss over Mahmoud Abbas’ comment on the ‘holocausts’ committed by Israel on the Palestinian people. Abbas cannot reverse facts even if he pulls back…
Gaza: War as an election tactic
It is cynical to use war as a way of beefing up chances of winning an election. This is exactly what Israel’s leader Lapid did in Israel’s latest aggression on…
People are the Fifth Pillar of Democracy
Tradition teaches us that democracy has four pillars - legislature, executive, judiciary and the media. This is not the absolute truth any longer. Each of these has suffered severe distortions…
Goa CM implicates Christians in communal outburst
Sashi Tharoor pertinently observed: “While our mainstream media was distracted by hijab, halal, and azan, India’s labour force shrunk by 3.8 million in March. Unemployment rose across sectors.76 lakh jobs…
Goa’s political apparatus eyes destabilization of Goa’s pristine ecology – Needed a Peoples Watch
Placid is not the only distinctive feature of this government in Goa. Well after a month since election results were announced, the BJP is tottering with government formation. Governance is…
Goa must rein in the communal tinderbox
Goa was in crisis mode on Sunday when Hindu-Muslim clashes occurred in the vicinity of Vasco. A large crowd of Ram Navami processionists marched through Vasco on the occasion of…
Non-violence and dialogue are ideal: But they have a shelf life that ends
People across the world who seek justice do what they can and must to respond to the plight of Palestinians who remain trapped in a deepening cycle of violence, humiliation…
A mandate from Christmas 2020: Let love and justice meet
On Christmas Day 2019, at a Christmas Eve Mass, parishioners were offered a powerful, yet challenging message on how we as everyday Christians must understand and observe Christmas. The…
Covid 19 -India’s disaster unpreparedness
COVID-19 has left India’s population under lockdown and curfew. Once more India has had to cope with Narendra Modi’s ‘shock and awe’ policy of short-notice announcements. These proclamations are issued…
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