At fifty, one feels like ‘Janus’ (the Roman God of beginnings and transitions, usually depicted with two faces, one looking behind at the past, and the other looking ahead to the future). The theme of…
All the 13 high schools and over 25 primary schools run by the Jesuits of Kohima are located in interior villages. The concept of a boarding house attached to a school is nothing new, and…
In Kohima Region, the growing number of local vocations must surely be reckoned as a sign of God’s singular favour. God confirms our mission in Northeast India by calling young men, and he invests in…
Fifty years are gone and the next fifty are beckoning the Kohima Jesuits. Where do they stand today as they ‘Read the Past to Write the Future’? They have ventured confidently into multiple areas of…
When I asked the Kohima Region scholastics about their vision for our future, their responses endorsed my sense that the UAPs are constitutive of the next ten years. As described in the UAPs, our Region…
Celebrations are like binding knots of a community that is alive and animated, sensitive and thriving. It builds strength, invigorates a process, and enriches its potential. The Golden Jubilee celebration of Kohima Jesuit Region was…
Many symbols are part of our traditional ways of celebrating feasts. Thus we have the Christmas tree and the Easter egg. Many of our modern Easter eggs have become as barren as the unfertilized eggs…
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As COVID-19 fatalities keep mounting by leaps and bounds in country after country and the world comes to a standstill in a global lockdown, humanity tries to grapple with a darkness it has not seen…
We are experiencing a pandemic for the first time. In India we are used to the aftereffects of malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and infant mortality, and AIDS. Most of these were/are in different pockets and were…