The field of community organization is a civilizational concept. With the advent of modern development, systems and processes were altered to prioritize individual needs over the community. It is in this context that the book…
On May 21, 1521, IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA received a wound at the Battle of Pamplona that would lead to a deep transformation of his life. Inspired by the 500th anniversary of this event, the journalist…
It happened in 1921…. ‘Traders from other parts of India, knowing the improvidence of these simple aboriginals, have settled among them to exploit it and trade upon it. Their stocks are always well provided with…
Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, the Jesuit General, has called this year, 2021-2022, “the Ignatian Year”, as it marks the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Fr. General invites us ‘to see…
An Interview with the Vice-Chancellor Fr. Felix Raj, SJ Thank you for accepting the interview for JIVAN, dear Fr. Felix Raj. You are the Vice-Chancellor of one of the first Jesuit universities in the South…
The first wave of Covid-19 in South Asia was still a matter of numbers. The second wave became a dreadful list of names upon names. The first wave affected those out there in the streets,…
A Bhopal auto-driver has turned his three-wheeler into an ambulance. That too, free of cost. Javed Khan from Bhopal has put his livelihood on hold, but the lives of many on an oxygen cylinder. Before…
Gujarat Woman Revives 675 Water bodies to solve Water Crisis of 5000 families in Kutch. On World Water Day (22nd March), Gazala Paul, founder of Ahmedabad-based NGO ‘Samerth’, talked about how she helped 97 villages…
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…
It was during my Tertianship in 2010, the last stage of formal formation of Jesuit Life, that I had a realcannonball experience like that of St. Ignatius, which totally changed my direction from building and…