AS I See It

THANK GOD, THE SHOW GOES ON…

The Indian economy, says Subramanian Swamy, who deems himself the only thoroughbred economist in India, is in a tail spin. (He chased Raghuram Rajan, the former Governor of the RBI, out of the country to ensure that his claim to this distinction remains undoubted). According to him, we are not into economic recession. We are […]

ON RAPE, CHASTITY AND SPIRITUALITY

Two options are open to humankind regarding the logic of life. First, to understand the meaning of events and to deal with the causes not less than the effects. Or, in the medical parlance: to treat the disease, even as the symptoms are being managed. The second option is to focus obstinately and exclusively on […]

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SR LUCY

What is important, ultimately, is not what happens; but what we make of it. Events become significant, or insignificant, depending on the awareness that we bring to bear on them. Accordingly, history becomes absurd or teleological. To be teleological is to be guided by an over-arching purpose. Being ‘absurd’ implies its opposite. The Judeo-Christian idea […]

OVERTONES OF THE KASHMIR GAMBLE

Politics is a domain of expediency. It is guided by calculations of short-term profit and loss. It happens, hence, that master strokes turn, over time, into cerebral strokes and smart moves into stalemates. History, we say, is the art of turning boisterous heroes into silent footnotes. So, these are early days yet to say how […]

WHY IS THE CONGRESS IMPLODING?

The tremors in the Indian National Congress is similar to earthquakes. For long the shift of the tectonic plates takes place unseen. It generates subterranean tension that, reaching a critical level, uncoils itself. The intuition in the old Indian myth that the earth is upheld by a gigantic serpent is intuitive. The decline of the […]

WANTED FOR DEMOCRACY: A FOOL AND A PROPHET

In the days when politics was less furious and more humane, kings had two special sources of guidance: the court fool and the court prophet. The fool served as a genial reminder to the king of the vanity of power-wielding. The court prophet keep the king mindful of his accountability to an authority higher than […]

TIME FOR CHRISTIANS TO INTROSPECT

Christianity is a historical faith. By that we mean not only that its founder is a historical person, but also that it remains sensitive to the nudges and nuances of history. It is, in other words, a ‘living faith.’ The hallmark of this ‘living-ness’ to which religious orthodoxy is often blind is the ability to […]

WHO WAS PAYAL TADVI?

Well, Payal Tadvi was a young doctor hailing from an Adivasi Muslim tribe in one of the most backward areas of India. She was a post graduate resident doctor in a Bombay hospital. She committed suicide on 22 May 2019. Before Payal became history, she, her mother, her husband complained several times to the authorities […]

Father Sahaya Thatheus Appointed Bishop of Simla- Chandigarh

Bishop Ignatius Mascarenhas Retires After 16 Years of Episcopal Ministry