The University Grants Commission (UGC) under the flagship program of Environmental Education implemented the subject Environmental Studies in the year 2000 as per the Supreme Court directives to promote environmental awareness in higher education curriculum…
Mission is the heart of Jesuit spirituality (as it could be seen in Ignatius’ Autobiography, Spiritual Journal, Spiritual Exercises and the Constitutions). The initial missionary zeal “to help souls” eventually, during the history of the…
A few years ago, just after I had given a quick rundown of the many international honours the Jesuit scientists have achieved for their accomplishments – 35 lunar craters, 11 asteroids, the first credited scientific…
In Conversation with the Newly appointed President of JCSA. [auth] Hearty Congratulations, Fr. Stany, on being appointed the President of JCSA. As you assume this important responsibility, what are your first feelings, rather your consolations…
We live today in cataclysmic times! If one goes by the experience of the last couple of years, and particularly since the pandemic COVID-19 gripped the world, one realises there is not much positive happening…
As Jesuit Refugee Service enters into 40 years of existence in November 14, 2020, it is not a time to triumphantly celebrate its achievements but to trace out God’s footprints and His providential accompaniment with…
Fr. A.T. Thomas received martyrdom on 24th October 1997. It is 23 years since his martyrdom. In 1996 he went to Manila, taking two years break from Dalit apostolate, to do his study. I was…
Fr. Tom Gafney was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, on November 28th, 1932. He joined the Jesuits in September 1952, and came to Nepal in 1959 after doing his philosophy studies at West Baden, Indiana.…
Transition from one generation to the next can not only be challenging, but even be fatally dangerous, particularly when big money and other vested interests are involved. This is what happened in the case of…
From Abel to Zachariah in the Old Testament, from Christ to Stephen in the New Testament, we see martyrs who stood for their faith and truth. Saul, who guarded the blood-stained clothes of the martyr…