The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is at our doorstep in India with a pressing mandate for its implementation. We in the school and higher education, need to prepare ourselves to make the best of…
The New Year 2023 has already rolled in. To begin with, let me wish you a healthy, happy and apostolically fruitful New Year. [auth] Sometimes I wonder whether anything has altered with the change of…
Double Engine Government, is a good puzzleIt’s in fact a decoy for double troubleFirst trouble is democratic autocracySecond is mono-religious supremacyDestroying all the political opponentsWith state’s power for enforcementsDouble patronage for chosen religionGovernment money splurged…
Spontaneous memories of the students of the last fifty years of Vidyajyoti would vary: some may recall the buildings and the neighbourhood places like the landmark Gujarati Samaj while others remember their visits to historic…
Meet Naleena Prasheetha, the first transperson to get a graduate degree in VISCOM from Loyola College, Chennai. She has come a long way in challenging the accepted binary classification of gender. When asked about Loyola,…
The Jesuit pioneers, who entered war-torn Afghanistan in 2005, considered education to be their greatest contribution to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and returnees, after peace had been (formally) re-established in 2001. [auth] Among these…
She was born as Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu on 26th August, 1910, but her real birth, many believe, was forty years later in 1950, when she founded the Missionaries of Charity, among the poor, the ailing…
Seconds, minutes, hours and days,Weeks, months and years as always,Begins neither with rectitude nor gratitude.I’m a vagabond amidst thy multitude.O God with humanity, lead me on. [auth] You draw straight with crooked lines.Unfathomable might, thy…
The Directors of Novices of JCSA had our annual meeting, after two years of COVID break, from August 21st - 30th 2022, at Arrupe Renewal Centre - Jesuit Novitiate, Meghalaya. All fourteen novitiates were represented.…
“You must yourselves be men of deep faith in order to be effective messengers of faith.” These words of the POSA, Fr. Stany D’Souza, set the tone for the reflections and deliberations of the coordinators…