There is a concept called ‘re-reading’ in literature, which connotes revisiting a text. It is not merely a dialogue between the reader and the text in a different time and space, but an encounter with…
Yam Raj, aged 49, is a farmer by profession, and dedicates two months during the monsoons every year, to help people cross flooded rivulets in Uttarakhand, India. He literally carries travellers on his shoulders to…
Piplantri was a Rajasthan village of barren and dusty hills. From 2005, Marble mining completed its desolation. Heat and dust, water scarcity and droughts made young people migrate. Girl children were considered a curse, many…
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When Diwali comes, crackers will fill the sky. But for decades, two Tamil Nadu villages - Kollukudipatti and Singampunari - in the Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu have not burst crackers during Diwali festival. The…
This farmer of Beed Dt. switched to organic fruit farming after attending a seminar. He made a fortune growing organic papaya and watermelon. [auth] Marginal small farmers do not easily experiment with alternative crops or…
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Fr. Walter Andrade SJ (78), a Jesuit from the Fatima Retreat House Mangaluru, former principal of St Joseph’s College of Commerce and St Joseph’s Evening College, Bengaluru and St Aloysius Evening College, Mangaluru, passed away…
Fr. Patrick de Melo passed away peacefully on 14 August at the Province infirmary in Porvorim, just in time to celebrate the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady in heaven. Fr Pat served the…
Fr. Elias was born in Ayyampatti, Trichy, Tamil Nadu on 31st July 1940 and entered the Society on 24th Sep.1962 in Beschi College, Dindigul. He came to Andhra at the invitation of late Fr. T.…