Bandhu Ishanand, SJ, Author at Jivan Magazine

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In a Different Farm
Farmers Turn Organic with Bumper Crops and Profit
Digital Jesuits: The #Hashtag Ministry
Wiring the Universal Apostolic Body
Jesuit communications during Covid-19
The ‘Byte’ification: Our story of going online!
Farmers on the Roads: An Opportunity for the Jesuits
Assessing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Go! Set the Web on Fire!
Fr. Valles: The Gujarati Jesuit, Mathematician, Writer, Guru
Online JCSA | Oct, 2020
From Babri Mosque to Ram Temple
Christmas in the time of COVID-19
The Birth of Hope to Heal the World
NEP 2020 Structural Changes in School Education
Stan in Jail: Implications for Christian Mission in India
Challenges Raised by the Jail Custody of Fr. Stan Lourduswamy
Infirmary in the Pandemic
Fratelli Tutti in the light of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
The Coronas of Christmas
Yamraj: The God of Life
Kiran Nidhi Yojana
Pandemic Christmas
Silent Crackers
Organic Fruits from Drought-Prone Beed Dt.
Martyrdom and Jesuits of South Asia
Let us together make a difference
Contemplation in Political Action
JRS-South Asia: 40 years of Accompaniment
A.T. Thomas: Liberator of the Oppressed and Exploited
Thomas Gafney: A Prophet against Corruption and Drugs
Mathew Mannaparambil: A Voice against Dishonesty and Disloyalty
James Kottayil: Emancipator from Moneylenders and Bonded-Labour
Herman Rasschaert: Peacemaker among Religious Communities
The Heaven I Imagine
Blessed Emilio Moscoso, SJ: First Martyr of Ecuador
Moves and Halts in South Asia: 2014-2020
Thrills and Trials in Being Utterly Brotherly
Of a different Kind-ness
Unique Bamboo Houses Survive 7 Assam Floods in 3 Years
Gandhian and Christian Martyrs
The Ignatian Year 2021-2022: Celebrating the Conversion of St. Ignatius
The NEP 2020: Reforms tilted towards the Rich and the Powerful
Facing Corona with Meditation
Rohingya: fast becoming a lost tribe?
Can our forerunners inspire us?
Humour as a Way to Face the Vicissitudes of Life
Salute to the Sindhudurg girl of Sahyadri Mountains
‘Lockdown’ student cultivation
Thinking Out of the Gender Box: Challenges to Jesuit Identity and Mission
Jesuits and Gender Equality
Mission Partnership with Jesuits: Who calls the shots?
Women Religious and Ignatian Spirituality
Showing the Way to God : Spiritual accompaniment for and with women
Rewriting the Jesuit Narrative on Women
Go to the Frontier Mission
Higher Education and National Education Policy 2020
Feast on Silence
Jesuit Community among the Planets
Loretos turn green
Nation Submerged
Social Media: The Indefatigable Host of Corona Content
Baptism by Covid-19 Has it changed the Church?
Post-Corona Governance Compassion, Connection and Reconstruction
A Psychological perspective on the Pandemic
The Virus of Hate
Violence against the Dalits in Nepal
‘Thatha Sami’ Fr. Louis Lèveil
Marching with the Migrants
Transforming Education after Covid-19
How Kerala’s Health Minister became a corona virus slayer
Love Bomb
Take Heart
Jesuit Resource and Response Hub (JRH)
The SWAN Girls: Prophetic Witness of the Youth
The Rights of Stateless Citizens
Pandemic: A call to Indigenous way of life
Migrant Solidarity Centre, Bagaicha
“I can’t breathe” in India too
The Person of Ignatius
The Pandemic and the Humanitarian crisis: Fixing Responsibility, Finding Solutions
A Prelate not too late
Gratitude and prayer are two sides of the same coin
Lockdown exit strategies of the Jesuits of South Asia
Beyond the peripheries – among the Transgenders
Reaching out to distressed migrants
Corona virus: Moment to reclaim spiritual space
First Jesuit Brothers
Living in solidarity with the environment
Online Retreat: A Lifeline experience
Coping Apostolically with COVID-19
Slumdog hero of slab school
Toilets with plastic bottles
Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Kohima Jesuit Region
Easter in the time of COVID-19
A story of Hope: Educating the rural poor of Northeast India
Shepherds of the flock: Pastoral history of the Kohima Region
Empowering the powerless: Social ministries in Kohima Region
Fifty years of Jesuit Presence in Northeast India: Genesis and Milestones
Beacons of Hope: Children’s Homes in Kohima
Our Growing Numbers
Whither the next fifty years of the Kohima Jesuits?
The vision of Kohima scholastics
Post-Jubilee Musings
The Easter Egg
Missionary in our streets
The Core of Christianity
9th National Congress of JAAI- Trichy
National Workshop on Peace and Reconciliation for Teachers
Are women not givers and mediators of life?
A Lenten Roadmap
The First Woman: Cursed forever
Integral Proclamation of the Word of God
A balance of Ecology and Ecosophy
Will Women’s Struggle for Dignity Ever End?
Jyoti breaks through
Terrible Man made God
Ekta Chappal Ghar
International Year of Plant Health, 2020
Should we not ‘Walk the Talk’?
The Citizenship Bill and the Northeast
CAA and its implication on refugee communities
Protest and Resistance
Six months of being hunted, yet not vanquished
Christian love is neither deaf nor blind
Are we short of “vocations”?
In the time of shaky Citizenship
Begged Life
Expanding Eco Education Network
The True Peace of the Prince
Crucial Conversation
50th Anniversary of the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES)
National Seminar in Honour of Fr. Sebastian Kappen, SJ
JCSA STATEMENT ON THE EMERGING SITUATION IN JHARKHAND
Expressive Club: Philosophical Implication of Language
A Language that could not be Written | The Story of Hrusso Aka
Krista Purana: Thomas Stephens’ Contribution to Indigenous Language
A ‘Labour of Love’ in Indigenous Languages
God’s Presence, God’s Present
The Dawn of a New Life
Jesus: A name St. Ignatius Carried in His Heart
The Encyclopaedia Mundarica of Fr. John Hoffman, SJ
Responding to REGAE II and Looking at the Future
The Synod of the Amazon
Delivering goodness
Bartering plastic waste for food, school fees, etc
Lok Manch: Exploring opportunities – Experiencing graces
Jesuit contribution towards Tribal Identity and Culture
UDAYANI – An experience of ‘birthing’ a movement by Dalit and Adivasi women
Caring for our common home
Inter-State Migrants (ISMs) in Kerala
Society of Jesus on its global mission
Arrupe helps us ride the waves
Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat
Walking in the footsteps of saints and martyrs: a pilgrimage of hope
Jesuit Novice Masters of South Asian Assistancy meet
It’s winter again!
Ecumenism and the Society of Jesus today
Receptive Ecumenism
Promoting Christian Unity in the Divided World
Women and Ecumenism in India
REGAE II – a destination already and not yet
Two years on: ‘No light at the end of the tunnel yet’
Mahatma and Saint
Ageless value
One man’s Eco dream – lived!
Spring Offensive
Interview with Fr. Markus Schmidt, SJ
The canonisation of John Henry Newman: an encouraging moment for ecumenists
Lessons from the Abkhasians with their incredible lifespan
Not All Crap! – Selling waste Online
Sacral Interculturality: a visit to a Sufi Dargah
The changing face of Inter-religious dialogue
An Inter-faith pioneer from rural Bihar: Peter Doherty, SJ
Promotion or Denial of Education? – a critical look at the DNEP – 2019
Hinduism and Inter-faith dialogue in contemporary times
A journey into the heart of the ‘religious other’
Everyone is a victim – therein lies our hope
Sameeksha a Jesuit Āśram of inter-religious harmony
Dialogue with Sikhs
The Zen faith
Christians and Yoga
Inter-religious couples: A new Inter-faith dialogue
Fr. Angelo Benedetti, SJ Swami Shubhananda
Ministry of fostering integrity and integration
Media Training Workshop for the Scholastics of Western Zone
The Dragon King of Bhutan
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam an Eminent Jesuit Alumnus
Nothing beyond those years
The Xaverian ethos
Confession by Mr. Lakshmi Narayan Mittal
Where I fell in love with sport
My golden decade
I look on all Jesuit priests with respect and affection
He believed I had the ability to do something for India
My years at St. Xavier’s College
From XLRI to Mozambique
To be a Xavierite is to be a chosen one
Loyola legend Vijay Amritraj
The Jesuit Story – its Charism and Values
The Trek to Trent
Murali – the Missionary
Chennai Engineers develop nozzles to cut water wastage by 95%
Elections 2019: Jesuit response to a stunning verdict
Behind Closed Doors
Shrine of St. Anthony at Kachchathivu Island
Fr. Jose Ignacio Tellechea Idigoras (1928 to 2008)
Death by a thousand (paper) cuts: Ignatius and the Promise of La Storta
Shedding Light on Clerical Closets
Firebrand Jesuit! Blessed Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz
Pope Francis’ message to young people: “Christ is alive!”
Innovative Interreligious Initiatives Fulfil UAPs
A Walk to Remember
Cyclone ‘FANI’ brought three-fold unique graces to Puri
Towards becoming Transformative Leaders
A Call to appreciate a Call
Drawing from Nature – Art and Mother Earth
Preparing for the first Universal Apostolic Preference
Jesuit South Asian Assembly (JESAA), Pune
Easter Sunday Horror
Gender Sensitivity and the Catholic Clergy
Jesuits and Geographical Exploration
In the Spirit, from the Heart, to Practice: Jesuit Identity and Universal Apostolic Preferences
Ensuring ‘No One is Left Behind’: The Call of SDGs and UAPs
Religion: Peace, Fraternity, Dialogue
Two Thesauruses by a Jesuit ‘wordsmith’
Let him become what he desires to become
The significance of Theology in Jesuit Formation
No Odds Unbeatable
A ‘Green Parish’
JCSA at Pedro Arrupe Institute, Raia, Goa
UAPs: Possibilities and Challenges to Formation
India’s elections: Learning the hard way
Universal Apostolic Preferences and Education in South Asia
Two Root Causes of Clericalism: A Theological Fallacy and a Formational Deficiency
An Indian Christian response to emerging India
The Resurrection: A message of Hope in a hopeless world
A Vote for Good Governance
Em-PAWAR-ed Village
Arun Anand, a retired Indore engineer, grows his own food in his terrace garden!
The Cause for Pedro Arrupe
Barren Acre transformed into Thriving Forest in 3 years
Jyoti of the Musahar community
International Symposium on Stephen Hawking and God
Labour of Love: Jesuit Mission Outreach in Afghanistan
The non-Christian initiatives for inter-religious dialogue
The Lenten Triangle
Mary Magdalene: Re-reading a ‘sinful’ woman
Do Women Count? A Teilhardian Perspective
Counterculture Education
Udaybhai: an Auto-matically Great Man
Plastic Man
Fr. Benjamin Henry Miller, SJ (SRI) (1925-2019)
Nation at Peril
Displacement Studies and Social Research
Need for more Social Scientists among Jesuits and in the Catholic Church
Social Sciences in Bombay Province – A Brief Historical Sketch
Reiterating our perspective on Adivasi studies
Papal Seminary: Home of Love
Stephen Hawking’s Missed Love-God Linkage
CHRISTMAS with a difference
TARUMITRA: Empowering students and teachers for a Green Earth
ECO-FEMINISM: Voices of Women for Mother Earth
Dhartari, Kansari and the Warli Woman
Eco-Spirituality and Novitiate Formation
Gujarat Jesuit Ecology Mission (GJEM)
Drawing from Nature
Kashi Darshan: A journey into Popular Hindu Religiosity
Green Ignatius of Loyola
#WeToo: The Ecological abuse and Justice
A Christmas after Christmas
Fr. Rudolph Fernandez, SJ (BOM) 1934-2020
Fr. Augustine Lopes, SJ (BOM) 1945-2020
Br. Desmond Dias, SJ (BOM) 1933-2020
Fr. Susai Lourdu Irudayraj, SJ (DUM) 1946-2020
Fr. Robert Wirth, SJ (DUM) 1934-2020
Fr. A. Antony Pappuraj, SJ (MDU) 1946-2020
Br. Jeyaraj Annaviar, SJ (MDU) 1942-2020
Fr. Gregory Stany D’Silva, SJ (JAM) 1964-2020

Bandhu Ishanand, SJ

The author is Emeritus Professor of Theology from the Gujarat Regional Theologate, and an eminent writer in Theology and Philosophy.

In a Different Farm

Road not takenFebruary 9, 2021

What comes to your mind when you think of a government official? Bribes for a sign on your certificate? Delay in registering your sale deed? Meet Taslima Mohammed, 34, a sub-registrar working in Mulugu and…

Farmers Turn Organic with Bumper Crops and Profit

Our Common HomeFebruary 9, 2021

In late 2016, farmers of Khaparkheda village in MP were surprised (or perhaps shocked) to see the farm of Laxmi Parate produce a high-quality surplus harvest of tomatoes, earning her a bumper profit. A few…

Growing Gracefully Old in the Society

Cover FeatureFebruary 10, 2018

“I am happy that you are going to join the Society of Jesus. But pray to the Lord that He calls you to Heaven before you reach old age.” This is what a family friend…