I watched the teens running with friends along the riverFlowing from the snows of the Himalayas,They jumped into the water, they collected pebblesThat captivated their eyes and their senses.They ate, they drank, they made merry…
Fr. Philemon Lakra, SJ (MAP) 1942 –2019
Philemon Lakra joined the Society of Jesus on 20 June 1965 at St Stanislaus College Sitagarh, Hazaribag; first vows 21 June 1967; juniorate at Mount St Joseph Bangalore, 1967-68, followed by College studies at St…
Oh gentle wind!
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Fr. Benjamin Henry Miller, SJ (SRI) (1925-2019)
Rev. Fr. Benjamin Henry MILLER of the Society of Jesus arrived in Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, on 4th September, 1948 just eight months after Sri Lanka celebrated its independence fromcolonial rule. He is an American…
Fr. George D’Souza, SJ (PUN) (1938-2018)
Fr. George D'Souza SJ was born in Pune on April 3rd, 1938. After graduating from St. Vincent’s High School in 1954, he studied for a year at Wadia College. He joined the Vinayalaya novitiate on…
Fr. Bento Fernandes, SJ (GUJ) (1941-2018)
It was in 1965 that I met Bento for the first time when he joined the novitiate at Sadhana Bhavan in Mount Abu. I was doing my second year of juniorate there and studying Gujarati.…
Question of Suicide and Self-Immolation
This book is a collection of papers on suicide and self-immolation, reprinted from the almost forgotten Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, published in 1886-1936. The book carries a Foreword by Prof. Ashis Nandy…
Doing small things with Great Trust
This is a remarkable book and you will probably read all 39 pages of it at one sitting. The author, Fr. Joseph Kalathil (Joe), is a Jesuit. He was a diocesan priest who was inspired…