Editorial

Logic of the Lonely

Fear and loneliness is very real. Loneliness is the common ground for terror. Fear is always connected with isolation—which can be either its result or its origin—and the concomitant experiences of impotence and helplessness. You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love? But what happens […]

The Haunting of Justice

“Whence things have their coming into being there they must also perish according to necessity; for they must pay a penalty and be judged for their injustice, according to the ordinance of time” – this is Anaximander( 610–546 BC) Fragment, translated by Heidegger. It speaks of the way natural things come into being and pass […]

The Loss of Common Sense

When a bunch of human beings say religious or political leaders lose the most common thing with humans namely, common sense, it is a sign of the processes of starting “something new.” The new is not the political isolation, but the loneliness of socially uprooted, “superfluous” human beings, their loss of common sense, the sense […]

The Worth of a Straw

Stand Swamy is no more. It was a painful departure for a Jesuit Priest who devoted more than three decades of his life to the Adivasis of Jharkhand. As missionary from Tamil Nadu, he was a disciple of Christ for the adivasis who had no rights in their own land. They were exploited not only […]

Fascism: the Supremacy of the Unconscious Fate

“The strategic adversary is fascism … the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. It’s too easy to be antifascist on the molar level, and not even see the fascist inside you, the fascist […]

Life In The Midst Of Covid

As an Indian I am living face-to-face with Covid; it is life confronting death. Franz Kafka’s story Before the law, according to George Steiner, contains “the nucleus of the novel [The Trial] and of Kafka’s vision.”… “Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. A man from the country comes to this doorkeeper and requests admittance to […]

Church Call to Embody Christ

As far as ordinary Catholics are concerned, the Eucharist is the pivot of their Catholic life. Eucharistic ritual as it is enacted today is founded on the last Supper of Christ where the passion death and resurrection are foreshadowed. The Eucharist of Christ is the Church’s act of embodying of Christ whose presence in the […]

Mega-languages kill Local Languages

Scientists estimate that 95% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct. It has been argued that species are dying out at a rate 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than the normal. A similar catastrophe is happening in our midst. Languages are dying away. Ethnologue currently lists 6,809 languages, 95% of which have […]

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