During my maiden visit to the central provinces of India, a fascinating thing that caught my attention was the round tables in the community dining halls. As the days went by, I realized that this…
O God, Where are You? – A Post-pandemic…
This pandemic has been a testing time for all. Every aspect of life is challenged. We are learning from experience that to live is to make many adjustments. No permanency for anything. Nothing as before!…
Remembering Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889)
What would the world be, once bereftOf wet and of wildness? Let them be left,O let them be left, wildness and wet;Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Inversnaid (1881) Read More
Eco-Storytelling: Sowing Seeds of Transformative Action
We are a fraction of the Earth. The Earth is a component of us. The pandemic has taught us that we are one of the tiniest miniscule beings on this planet trying to comprehend the…
Democracy to Defend, Not to Destroy
Democracy is rightly defined as “the government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Real power in a democracy is vested in the hands of its citizens by the exercise of their…
THEOLOGY ONLINE – Encountering God in Cyberspace
The year-long curfew imposed due to Corona, turned out to be a dark period for all the educational institutions, students and those interested in learning. However, the saying ‘Not all the classrooms have four walls’…
Vows in the time of the Pandemic (aka…
Our world has been traumatically transformed over the last few months. On the one hand due to the Covid pandemic, we have faced an unpredictable illness, death, fear, uncertainty, loss of livelihood, and mental health…
Father Stan Swamy and the Bagaicha Movement
Bagaicha means a garden in which all kinds of flora and fauna flourish. Jharkhand’s Adivasi lands are sprinkled with such gardens, the mango orchards being the prominent and distinct feature of its landscape. According to…
For Stan, the Secular was the Sacred
18th July 2021 was a landmark day for thousands of Adivasis of Jharkhand. In a statement tweeted earlier, the Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha (a coalition of progressive organisations, formed to facilitate efforts to defend peoples’ rights…