All the major superiors of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia (JCSA), headed by Fr Stanislaus D’Souza, along with the General Assistants, Frs. Vernon D’Cunha and M K George gathered at Christ Hall, Calicut, Kerala…
Role of Media to Rule of Media
Communication is basic to animals and humans. The mode and quality of communication has evolved over the centuries. While animals have largely followed the same mode from time immemorial, humans have taken giant strides in…
The social concern of the Church on New…
One has to acknowledge that the digitisation of media and the exponential growth of technologies present massive societal challenges for the future. Church leaders are fully aware of the fact that new media is not…
Community Radio Sarang: Giving voice to the voiceless
Prakash Mangalpadi was an automobile technician. As fate would have it, once when he was repairing a bus it accidentally ran over him, incapacitating him waist down. He was bedridden for months and could not…
Colouring Children’s World
Childhood is the best time in a human’s life. Innocence and spontaneity are natural to children. [auth] They live in a beautiful, colourful, imaginative, straightforward and simple world governed by simple logic and reasoning which…
The tribal world of communication
The tribal world is studded with a rich variety of symbols in communication. It has been rightly said that tribals communicate much more symbolically than verbally. [auth] Even as modern means of communication is taking…
Kaladarshini: A cultural means to humanisation
Fine arts have the magical power to transpose and transform a human from a mundane into a transcendental being with a pure soul. Unfortunately, for many centuries in the South India fine arts was inaccessible…
Crossing Borders and Sharing Christ
A saga of Radio Veritas Asia – from Short Wave to Online Broadcasting [auth] Radio Veritas – an overview It was in 1958 at Manila, the Philippines. The occasion was the re-dedication of the renovated…
Women Religious in India: In service or servitude?
Early this year L’Observatore Romano published an article on the widespread exploitation of nuns in the Catholic Church. It was received with some surprise coming as it did from the Vatican. The article elicited responses…