You definitely remember the above two images from the 2002 Gujarat riots; one of Qutubuddin Ansari with a sobbing face and folded hands begging for mercy from an attacking mob, and the other of Ashok…
Delivering goodness
Twenty one children who once begged for food and money on Kolkata’s roads now study in government schools. This is not the work of an NGO or a Government scheme. It is the initiative of…
Ageless value
A first-aid kit containing all the emergency requirements - bandages, antiseptic lotion, cream for burns and paracetamol; with basic knowledge of administering first aid having gone through formal training, this is no ambulance or an…
Lessons from the Abkhasians with their incredible lifespan
In 1974 Sula Benet, a noted anthropologist, while working in Abkhasia, shared this anecdote. She once toasted a man who looked no more than 70 and said, “May you live as long as Moses to…
Murali – the Missionary
He is not a missionary. But he has done more than any missionary could have done. In his two decade long journey of bringing education to one of the most remote tribal regions in Kerala,…
Fr. Jose Ignacio Tellechea Idigoras (1928 to 2008)
How a Basque diocesan priest helped many modern day Jesuits “to know, love and follow” St. Ignatius more closely and thus find God in all things. [auth] Fr. Jose Ignacio Tellechea Idigoras, a Basque diocesan…
No Odds Unbeatable
The perception persists that the scientific world is alien territory for religious leaders and scholars, particularly for women. But this is fast changing, especially in the Indian Catholic Church. In this “Road Not Taken” episode…
Em-PAWAR-ed Village
It is Pawar that empowers a village. When Popatrao Pawar was elected the Sarpanch of the village in 1990,his family was upset as it wanted him to stay in the city. “But I felt that…
Jyoti of the Musahar community
When her parents left her in a residential school for poor children, she was just five. [auth] But Jyoti, one of seven siblings, didn’t cry over being ‘abandoned’. Even when many other girls her age…