I am glad to share my experiences and impressions of the Jesuits down the years. I limit my sharing to the Jesuits who came to Patna during or after the 1960s.
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Patna Jesuits: as I saw them
- The Floral Trail
- Our Common Houses and Works
- Synodality in the Church : Both a Gift and a Task
- Synodal Spirit, lead us on!
- The Spanish Jesuits in Bombay (1921-2021)
- Go, Set the World on Fire
- Psalm and Ignatius
- Our Master, St. Ignatius!
- ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
- Inigo, Canonball, Crossroads and the Jesuits
- A Cannonball Struck and the World was Transformed
- Musings on the Conversions of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
- Ignatian Heritage and Ashram Ministry
- Waves from the Sea of the Heart
- Who was Stan Swamy really?
- Webinar on ‘Dialogue of Life’
- Inauguration of Jesuit Media Centre – JEMCEN
- From Storm to Stillness
- Urban Jungle on Terrace
- Teaching the Unreachable
- Fr. Placido Fonseca, SJ (BOM) 1937-2021
- Fr. Cheruparambil J. John, SJ (AND) 1949 – 2021
- Fr. Stanislaus Miranda, SJ (KAR) 1930 – 2021
- Fr. Varghese Paul Chollamadam, SJ (GUJ) 1943-2021
- Fr. Arputham Jesuraj, SJ (GUJ) 1960-2021
- Fr. Maxim Crasta, SJ (GUJ) 1966 – 2021
- The Jesuit Principal
- The Mindful Education
- Covid Beckons New Teaching Perspectives
- Protecting our Educational Rights
- Speaking Truth to Power
- Women in Islamic Religious Thinking
- Exploring New Frontiers in Interreligious Dialogue
- Zoom Masses Unite a Faith Community
- O God, Where are You? – A Post-pandemic Reflection
- Remembering Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889)
- Eco-Storytelling: Sowing Seeds of Transformative Action
- Covid Trekking
- The First Railway Station in India with Vertical Gardens!
- My Manresa Experience!
- Fr. Paul Valappila, SJ (GUJ) (1943 – 2021)
- Fr. Peter J. Kurukula Aratchi, SJ (SRI) 1939 – 2021
- Fr. Anton Weerasinghe, SJ (SRI) 1939 – 2021
- A Conference Webbing together the Ignatian Spirituality and Islamic Teachings
- People of All Faiths Pledge to Pursue Stan’s Legacy
- Nashik based Jesuit NGOCares for the Covid Affected Tribals
- First Jesuit Residence in Tripura, “Arrupe In” Inaugurated
- The Eucharist that Really Was
- Gender Justice for Women Religious
- Educating for Depth – Discerning for a Hope-Filled Future
- Will we Allow our Democracy to Collapse?
- Dare to be on the Move
- WERE I TO BE ELECTED
- Murder in the Temple (of Democracy)
- Not a Silent Spectator…
- The Prophet of Our Time
- NOBLE STAN (Modeled on St Ignatius’ March)
- Exploring Shia-Catholic Dialogue
- Renaming Xavier University as ‘XIM’ University
- The Three Jesuits who Bridged Christianity and Islam
- Meet the Joyful Jesus
- Democracy to Defend, Not to Destroy
- THEOLOGY ONLINE – Encountering God in Cyberspace
- Vows in the time of the Pandemic (aka “Love in the time of Cholera”)
- Father Stan Swamy and the Bagaicha Movement
- For Stan, the Secular was the Sacred
- Stan: An Icon of Adivasi Articulation
- Johar Stan!
- Walking humbly with God… and with Stan Swamy
- Introduction to the Mass in memory of Fr Stan
- Instruments for Liberation
- A Chapel with a Cosmic Countenance
- Stan’s Life and Message
- Response to COVID-19 – Jesuits and the Church of Varanasi
- Lead Us On
- When Tribal Land Matters and their Lives do not, what happens!
- The Spiritual Exercises – A Handbook for Lay Spirituality
- Nearer, My God, to Thee – Finding God in the Second Wave
- A Service Truly Auto
- COMMUNITY INITIATIVE – TO SOLVE PERENNIAL WATER CRISIS
- The Pandemic and the Big Challenges
- Thankful
- The Conversion of Ignatius: Where’s the Path-breaker in me?
- IGNATIAN YEAR: A Call to be Partners in God’s Dream for the World
- Open Your Hearts: Interview with Fr. Arjen Tete, SJ
- The Conversions of Ignatius of Loyola
- An Ignatian Moment of Conversion
- The Divine in the Face of the Other
- The Mysticism of St. Ignatius
- Peter Joseph de Cloriviere: In Search of God during Revolutionary Times
- Hope in the Valley of Tears : The Anguish of a Pastor in the Pandemic
- An arid Kerala village checked water for irrigation
- ARMY OF HELP
- The Face of the Face-less
- Engineer-turned Farmer harnesses Wind & Solar Energy
- Crucial Conversation
- JCSA Meeting
- Centenary Celebration Jiffies
- Christian Faith as a Co-pilgrim in Bihar: A Pastoral Perspective
- Dreaming into the Future
- Social Action: Glorious Past yet Searching for a New Beginning
- Patna Jesuits on the National Frontiers
- Educating for a Stronger Bihar
- Our Province, Our Vision
- Patna Jesuits: as I saw them
- Collaborating with Jesuits of Patna
- Recalling my Jesuit associations
- They have shaped my Life
- In Love with the Mission
- MAIN (Migrant Assistance and Information Network) Inaugurated
- Easter: from Despair to Hope
- A Century of Patna Jesuit Mission: 1921-2021
- Man of Letters
- Smashing Gender Norms
- Theology Emerging from Below
- Jesuit Response to Feminist Concerns in South Asia
- Building Bridges across Religions
- Echoing the Cries of the Cosmos
- Wrestling with Indian Casteism
- Jesuit Mission in the field of Ethnophilosophy
- St. Joseph: model of faith, hope and love
- New Education Policy – 2020 (NEP) Opportunities and Challenges
- Transforming Ashes into Fire
- From Desk-Bound to Deshi Theology
- CONVERSION
- In a Different Farm
- Farmers Turn Organic with Bumper Crops and Profit
- Digital Jesuits: The #Hashtag Ministry
- Wiring the Universal Apostolic Body
- Jesuit communications during Covid-19
- The ‘Byte’ification: Our story of going online!
- Farmers on the Roads: An Opportunity for the Jesuits
- Assessing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Go! Set the Web on Fire!
- Fr. Valles: The Gujarati Jesuit, Mathematician, Writer, Guru
- Online JCSA | Oct, 2020
- From Babri Mosque to Ram Temple
- Christmas in the time of COVID-19
- The Birth of Hope to Heal the World
- NEP 2020 Structural Changes in School Education
- Stan in Jail: Implications for Christian Mission in India
- Challenges Raised by the Jail Custody of Fr. Stan Lourduswamy
- Infirmary in the Pandemic
- Fratelli Tutti in the light of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
- Yamraj: The God of Life
- Kiran Nidhi Yojana
- Pandemic Christmas
- Silent Crackers
- Organic Fruits from Drought-Prone Beed Dt.
- Martyrdom and Jesuits of South Asia
- Let us together make a difference
- Contemplation in Political Action
- JRS-South Asia: 40 years of Accompaniment
- A.T. Thomas: Liberator of the Oppressed and Exploited
- Thomas Gafney: A Prophet against Corruption and Drugs
- Mathew Mannaparambil: A Voice against Dishonesty and Disloyalty
- James Kottayil: Emancipator from Moneylenders and Bonded-Labour
- Herman Rasschaert: Peacemaker among Religious Communities
- The Heaven I Imagine
- Blessed Emilio Moscoso, SJ: First Martyr of Ecuador
- Moves and Halts in South Asia: 2014-2020
- Thrills and Trials in Being Utterly Brotherly
- Of a different Kind-ness
- Unique Bamboo Houses Survive 7 Assam Floods in 3 Years
- Gandhian and Christian Martyrs
- The Ignatian Year 2021-2022: Celebrating the Conversion of St. Ignatius
- The NEP 2020: Reforms tilted towards the Rich and the Powerful
- Facing Corona with Meditation
- Rohingya: fast becoming a lost tribe?
- Can our forerunners inspire us?
- Humour as a Way to Face the Vicissitudes of Life
- Salute to the Sindhudurg girl of Sahyadri Mountains
- ‘Lockdown’ student cultivation
- Thinking Out of the Gender Box: Challenges to Jesuit Identity and Mission
- Jesuits and Gender Equality
- Mission Partnership with Jesuits: Who calls the shots?
- Women Religious and Ignatian Spirituality
- Showing the Way to God : Spiritual accompaniment for and with women
- Rewriting the Jesuit Narrative on Women
- Go to the Frontier Mission
- Higher Education and National Education Policy 2020
- Feast on Silence
- Jesuit Community among the Planets
- Loretos turn green
- Nation Submerged
- Social Media: The Indefatigable Host of Corona Content
- Baptism by Covid-19 Has it changed the Church?
- Post-Corona Governance Compassion, Connection and Reconstruction
- A Psychological perspective on the Pandemic
- The Virus of Hate
- Violence against the Dalits in Nepal
- ‘Thatha Sami’ Fr. Louis Lèveil
- Marching with the Migrants
- Transforming Education after Covid-19
- How Kerala’s Health Minister became a corona virus slayer
- Love Bomb
- Take Heart
- Jesuit Resource and Response Hub (JRH)
- The SWAN Girls: Prophetic Witness of the Youth
- The Rights of Stateless Citizens
- Pandemic: A call to Indigenous way of life
- Migrant Solidarity Centre, Bagaicha
- “I can’t breathe” in India too
- The Person of Ignatius
- The Pandemic and the Humanitarian crisis: Fixing Responsibility, Finding Solutions
- A Prelate not too late
- Gratitude and prayer are two sides of the same coin
- Lockdown exit strategies of the Jesuits of South Asia
- Beyond the peripheries – among the Transgenders
- Reaching out to distressed migrants
- Corona virus: Moment to reclaim spiritual space
- First Jesuit Brothers
- Living in solidarity with the environment
- Online Retreat: A Lifeline experience
- Coping Apostolically with COVID-19
- Slumdog hero of slab school
- Toilets with plastic bottles
- Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Kohima Jesuit Region
- Easter in the time of COVID-19
- A story of Hope: Educating the rural poor of Northeast India
- Shepherds of the flock: Pastoral history of the Kohima Region
- Empowering the powerless: Social ministries in Kohima Region
- Fifty years of Jesuit Presence in Northeast India: Genesis and Milestones
- Beacons of Hope: Children’s Homes in Kohima
- Our Growing Numbers
- Whither the next fifty years of the Kohima Jesuits?
- The vision of Kohima scholastics
- Post-Jubilee Musings
- The Easter Egg
- Missionary in our streets
- The Core of Christianity
- 9th National Congress of JAAI- Trichy
- National Workshop on Peace and Reconciliation for Teachers
- Are women not givers and mediators of life?
- A Lenten Roadmap
- The First Woman: Cursed forever
- Integral Proclamation of the Word of God
- A balance of Ecology and Ecosophy
- Will Women’s Struggle for Dignity Ever End?
- Jyoti breaks through
- Terrible Man made God
- Ekta Chappal Ghar
- International Year of Plant Health, 2020
- Should we not ‘Walk the Talk’?
- The Citizenship Bill and the Northeast
- CAA and its implication on refugee communities
- Protest and Resistance
- Six months of being hunted, yet not vanquished
- Christian love is neither deaf nor blind
- Are we short of “vocations”?
- In the time of shaky Citizenship
- Begged Life
- Expanding Eco Education Network
- The True Peace of the Prince
- Crucial Conversation
- 50th Anniversary of the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES)
- National Seminar in Honour of Fr. Sebastian Kappen, SJ
- JCSA STATEMENT ON THE EMERGING SITUATION IN JHARKHAND
- Expressive Club: Philosophical Implication of Language
- A Language that could not be Written | The Story of Hrusso Aka
- Krista Purana: Thomas Stephens’ Contribution to Indigenous Language
- A ‘Labour of Love’ in Indigenous Languages
- God’s Presence, God’s Present
- The Dawn of a New Life
- Jesus: A name St. Ignatius Carried in His Heart
- The Encyclopaedia Mundarica of Fr. John Hoffman, SJ
- Responding to REGAE II and Looking at the Future
- The Synod of the Amazon
- Delivering goodness
- Bartering plastic waste for food, school fees, etc
- Lok Manch: Exploring opportunities – Experiencing graces
- Jesuit contribution towards Tribal Identity and Culture
- UDAYANI – An experience of ‘birthing’ a movement by Dalit and Adivasi women
- Caring for our common home
- Inter-State Migrants (ISMs) in Kerala
- Society of Jesus on its global mission
- Arrupe helps us ride the waves
- Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat
- Walking in the footsteps of saints and martyrs: a pilgrimage of hope
- Jesuit Novice Masters of South Asian Assistancy meet
- It’s winter again!
- Ecumenism and the Society of Jesus today
- Receptive Ecumenism
- Promoting Christian Unity in the Divided World
- Women and Ecumenism in India
- REGAE II – a destination already and not yet
- Two years on: ‘No light at the end of the tunnel yet’
- Mahatma and Saint
- Ageless value
- One man’s Eco dream – lived!
- Spring Offensive
- Interview with Fr. Markus Schmidt, SJ
- The canonisation of John Henry Newman: an encouraging moment for ecumenists
- Lessons from the Abkhasians with their incredible lifespan
- Not All Crap! – Selling waste Online
- Sacral Interculturality: a visit to a Sufi Dargah
- The changing face of Inter-religious dialogue
- An Inter-faith pioneer from rural Bihar: Peter Doherty, SJ
- Promotion or Denial of Education? – a critical look at the DNEP – 2019
- Hinduism and Inter-faith dialogue in contemporary times
- A journey into the heart of the ‘religious other’
- Everyone is a victim – therein lies our hope
- Sameeksha a Jesuit Āśram of inter-religious harmony
- Dialogue with Sikhs
- The Zen faith
- Christians and Yoga
- Inter-religious couples: A new Inter-faith dialogue
- Fr. Angelo Benedetti, SJ Swami Shubhananda
- Ministry of fostering integrity and integration
- Media Training Workshop for the Scholastics of Western Zone
- The Dragon King of Bhutan
- Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam an Eminent Jesuit Alumnus
- Nothing beyond those years
- The Xaverian ethos
- Confession by Mr. Lakshmi Narayan Mittal
- Where I fell in love with sport
- My golden decade
- I look on all Jesuit priests with respect and affection
- He believed I had the ability to do something for India
- My years at St. Xavier’s College
- From XLRI to Mozambique
- To be a Xavierite is to be a chosen one
- Loyola legend Vijay Amritraj
- The Jesuit Story – its Charism and Values
- The Trek to Trent
- Murali – the Missionary
- Chennai Engineers develop nozzles to cut water wastage by 95%
- Elections 2019: Jesuit response to a stunning verdict
- Behind Closed Doors
- Shrine of St. Anthony at Kachchathivu Island
- Fr. Jose Ignacio Tellechea Idigoras (1928 to 2008)
- Death by a thousand (paper) cuts: Ignatius and the Promise of La Storta
- Shedding Light on Clerical Closets
- Firebrand Jesuit! Blessed Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz
- Pope Francis’ message to young people: “Christ is alive!”
- Innovative Interreligious Initiatives Fulfil UAPs
- A Walk to Remember
- Cyclone ‘FANI’ brought three-fold unique graces to Puri
- Towards becoming Transformative Leaders
- A Call to appreciate a Call
- Drawing from Nature – Art and Mother Earth
- Preparing for the first Universal Apostolic Preference
- Jesuit South Asian Assembly (JESAA), Pune
- Easter Sunday Horror
- Gender Sensitivity and the Catholic Clergy
- Jesuits and Geographical Exploration
- In the Spirit, from the Heart, to Practice: Jesuit Identity and Universal Apostolic Preferences
- Ensuring ‘No One is Left Behind’: The Call of SDGs and UAPs
- Religion: Peace, Fraternity, Dialogue
- Two Thesauruses by a Jesuit ‘wordsmith’
- Let him become what he desires to become
- The significance of Theology in Jesuit Formation
- No Odds Unbeatable
- A ‘Green Parish’
- JCSA at Pedro Arrupe Institute, Raia, Goa
- UAPs: Possibilities and Challenges to Formation
- India’s elections: Learning the hard way
- Universal Apostolic Preferences and Education in South Asia
- Two Root Causes of Clericalism: A Theological Fallacy and a Formational Deficiency
- An Indian Christian response to emerging India
- The Resurrection: A message of Hope in a hopeless world
- A Vote for Good Governance
- Em-PAWAR-ed Village
- Arun Anand, a retired Indore engineer, grows his own food in his terrace garden!
- The Cause for Pedro Arrupe
- Barren Acre transformed into Thriving Forest in 3 years
- Jyoti of the Musahar community
- International Symposium on Stephen Hawking and God
- Labour of Love: Jesuit Mission Outreach in Afghanistan
- The non-Christian initiatives for inter-religious dialogue
- The Lenten Triangle
- Mary Magdalene: Re-reading a ‘sinful’ woman
- Do Women Count? A Teilhardian Perspective
- Counterculture Education
- Udaybhai: an Auto-matically Great Man
- Plastic Man
- Fr. Benjamin Henry Miller, SJ (SRI) (1925-2019)
- Nation at Peril
- Displacement Studies and Social Research
- Need for more Social Scientists among Jesuits and in the Catholic Church
- Social Sciences in Bombay Province – A Brief Historical Sketch
- Reiterating our perspective on Adivasi studies
- Papal Seminary: Home of Love
- Stephen Hawking’s Missed Love-God Linkage
- CHRISTMAS with a difference
- TARUMITRA: Empowering students and teachers for a Green Earth
- ECO-FEMINISM: Voices of Women for Mother Earth
- Dhartari, Kansari and the Warli Woman
- Eco-Spirituality and Novitiate Formation
- Gujarat Jesuit Ecology Mission (GJEM)
- Drawing from Nature
- Kashi Darshan: A journey into Popular Hindu Religiosity
- Green Ignatius of Loyola
- #WeToo: The Ecological abuse and Justice
- A Christmas after Christmas
