Family Corner

Don’t Be Evil

Prema Jayakumar Once again, let’s borrow from Google. One goes to it for everything, but just now the motto seems appropriate. Evil should be a grand word, set to powerful musical chords and with thunder and lightning accompanying its declamation. And yet, if you read the newspapers and listen to the news on the television, […]

The Narrow Gate

But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. – Mathew 7:14 We’re into the season of Lent, and for all practising Christians, this six –week period is one of retribution and renewal of faith as we accompany Jesus on His journey of suffering […]

When the World Conspires Against You

Prema Jayakumar All of us have periods in our lives when it looks as though the whole world is conspiring against us. Not just people, but the elements too. It rains when you set out, the train leaves just as you enter the railway station, people don’t pick up telephones when you need to get […]

Sustainable Resolutions

Rose Mary From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded. – Luke 12:48 The New Year issue of Deccan Herald flashed one of their flagship events titled ‘DH Changemakers: 20 to watch in 2020.’ In a grand function honoring the chosen 20 who came from all walks of life, the editor of […]

Language as Mask

Prema Jayakumar ‘Language,’ said Levis Strauss, ‘is a form of human reason.’ And anyone who loves language and words would agree. How would we think logically without language? Where would we be without the coherence of language? A scary thought. George Orwell’s 1984 is now rather passé, with the quarter of a century having passed […]

Gods of Human Creation

Rose Mary “…though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.” -John 1:10 A popular article on the God of Spinoza has been doing the rounds on social media and has garnered a great deal of support from all and sundry. But what is most disturbing is that a good part […]

You Are the Good News

Reena Joseph The crux of the homily at the Christmas Holy Mass at our local church was about the birth of the Good News. We were all urged to carry forward the legacy of this baby bearer of Good News and become bearers of the Good News in our day-to-day lives. A challenge for every […]

Nostalgia for the Old Days and Old Ways

Prema Jayakumar The word ‘nostalgia’ is made up of two Greek words ‘nostos’ that means ‘return’ and ‘algos’ that means suffering, the combination coming to mean a suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return to a place or time that is lost. This time, when one year is ending and another is about to […]

Indian bishops slam terror attack on tourists in India’s Kashmir

No action taken against police who assaulted Catholic priests in India