Focus

FOCUS (April 2020)

Q: What have to say at this hour of crisis of Corona virus? A: “We shudder at the hearing the word Corona Virus. This invisible virus has caused a sudden break on our human history. We are locked down. It also highlights the concern we have for each other, the capacity to die for the […]

HEART- BREAKING FACES AND HEART- THREATENING FEARS

Visiting the riot affected areas in the capital city of Delhi and seeing the frightened and insecure faces of people, including many innocent children and poor women, was a heart-breaking experience. Amidst such incidents, I am feeling increasingly insecure in the so called largest secular democracy of the world. It is in fact very unbearable […]

Focus (March 2020)

Q: Identity is ceasing to be dialogical. A group of people is bent on the creation of a particular identity. We are, therefore, now facing a crisis of identity. How do you think the question of Indian citizenship can be resolved? A: Indian identity is a multiple identity. We are North Indians, South Indians, West […]

Focus (February 2020)

Q: Some of the Christian Churches in Kerala as well as elsewhere seems to be taking a side of the BJP. What are your feelings? A: The BJP has a long term plan Hindu Rashtra, in a particular direction. The founder of RSS has a plan gradually somehow sideline all those who are not really […]

Focus (February 2020)

Q: How did you celebrate Republic Day in the context of the Citizenship Amendment Act? Did you read the preamble of the constitution in Calcutta and Goa? Do you think that the controversial bill is a matter that concerns the Muslims only? A: The Republic day really went on well. Reading the preamble of the […]

Focus (January 2020)

Q: How do you see the burning issue of the Citizenship Amendment Act and the agitation against it? A: As far as I am concerned, the present amendment looks upon people who have already come into India from three specified countries as refugees and it is not an amendment that is applicable in the future. […]

Focus (January 2020)

Q: Are we as a nation gripped by some sort of Islamophobia – hate of Muslims? Do our rural folk, who are basically good hearted people, think that this will be good for the country in the future? How do you see the practice of deciding the identity of a citizen based on religion? A: […]

Focus (December 2019)

Q: How do you see the new Citizen’s Bill passed by our Parliament? A: “I see a mixed plate. Is such a bill really needed? I have seen countries that welcome persecuted people and refugees without passing a bill, much less a bill that unnecessarily eliminates a certain section of people. The bill has created […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

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