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Civic Sense or Common Sense? Tackling the Biggest Sense of All

Sanjose A Thomas At birth most of us are born with five senses, exceptional few with sixth sense but none is born with civic Sense. Though we have the ability to speak, words and languages are taught to us by the adults. Similarly civic sense too has to be taught and inculcated. With the exception […]

Rules and Borders

Prema Jayakumar ‘What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man, I owe to sport.’ Albert Camus was sure about the influence of sport on his life. The statement seemed an odd one from a philosopher who wrote so much on what morality meant and when lack of conflict became immoral. It […]

A gardener’s musing!

Dr. Agnes S. Thomas “Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience” (R.W. Emerson) As a hobby gardener, I dedicate most of my free time in the spring to my modest backyard garden. Since it is small, I know all the plants that return each year and approximately how long it takes for them […]

Revisiting the Unsung Legacy of a Great Son of Kerala

Sanjose A Thomas The decision by the Kerala government to include St.Kuriakose Elias of Chavara, popularly hailed as ‘Chavarayachan’, into the list of social reformers from Kerala in Std 7 textbook is a welcome one, but adding someone who laid foundations for social reform in Kerala to a list will become meaningful only of we […]

Puzzles and People

Prema Jayakumar A lot of people have a set routine to start a day. After a glance through the headlines of newspaper(s), they go to their favourite puzzle, be it a cross-word, a wordle, a sudoku or more complicated things. Once that is done, and they have solved it, they feel the day has started […]

Love that Transforms Fear!

Dr. Agnes S. Thomas The people and relationships I encounter often arouse the feelings of joy, love, fear, and suffering in me. I also see how the evil manifested in war and other forms of destruction are deeply impacting a lot of people, including the communities we care about. It breaks my heart to see […]

Will mankind survive for another 50 Years? Are we heading towards mass extinction?

To our great shock and surprise, a local corporation in a city in India declared water emergency in March, much before the advancement of extreme summer taking into consideration the acute shortage of water, both ground water as well as rain water. It even imposed penalties on those who bath twice a day and those […]

Living with a Place

Prema Jayakumar ‘Mostly, we are good when it makes sense. A good society is one that makes sense of being good.’ Novelist Ian McEwan says this among other things about living in the world of today. Have you thought of the world you live in? I don’t mean anything large, not on the scale of […]

Pope: ‘Synodality is inseparable from ecumenism’

Vatican, Catholic leaders from Europe discuss sexual abuse in the Church