The Pandemic and the Big Challenges

Are we equal to the tasks? The Pandemic is not primarily about a virus, or a family of mutating deadly viruses. It is fundamentally about us! [auth] The first wave of the Pandemic (2020) wreaked…

Farmers on the Roads: An Opportunity for the…

As the world’s attention is riveted on the ‘largest protest in history’ that is being played out on the streets leading to the political Capital of India, there is a churning happening.  Indian democracy is…

Social Sciences in Bombay Province – A Brief…

Bombay Province has had Jesuit intellectuals who taught the social sciences, chiefly in St Xavier’s College, Mumbai. They encouraged their students to go beyond the classroom and do ‘action-research’ that familiarised them ‘social analysis’. This…

Swami Agnivesh: A prophet for our times

The dastardly assault on Swami Agnivesh has rightly been described as a direct attack on democracy and the freedom of expression - a frontal attack on the rule of law and on human dignity. It…