All the top Jesuit priests are heading to Rome for the 36th General Congregation. Its main business will be to elect a new Superior General. (A long time ago, the head of the Jesuits was also called the Black Pope, perhaps because of the black robes they wore at the time, or because they seemed […]
September 22 is Elephant Appreciation Day! I am from the Northeast of India, and the elephant is an important animal not only in North Bengal, Assam and surrounding states, but also in jungles throughout India. Elephants are hugely important in our History and culture. So why can’t we Indians get together and make September 22 […]
Patna: The State government, for all its pretty noises about saving the environment, were roundly criticized on Saturday by hundreds of students who lined up alongside Bailey Road to observe the funeral of the many trees that were clandestinely hacked down, ostensibly to make way for a ‘flyover’. Instead of uprooting the trees and replanting […]
Patna, Bihar: The Central government has been on a public toilet building spree for some years now. But despite Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s efforts and prime Minister Modi’s appeals, people are still ‘going out’ in the open. So, now, the government is trying to shame people into using toilets. Between 2006 and 2012, authorities […]
Located along India’s west coast, Goa has a rich regional cuisine that shows shades of Hindu, Muslim and Portuguese influence. Being surrounded by sea, the cuisine is predominantly seafood based and is high on spices and coconut. Meat, pork and seafood form the staple diet. Rural Goa continues to use traditional way of cooking food […]
New Delhi, August 30, 2016: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday wrote to Pope Francis expressing the pride and delight felt by every Indian citizen on the September 4 canoninsation of Mother Teresa to be held at the Vatican. “Every citizen of India, including our nearly 20 million Catholics, takes immense pride and joy on […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will lead the official Indian delegation to the Vatican for Mother Teresa’s canonization. The official delegation heading to Vatican on Sep 4 to attend Mother Teresa’s canonization includes BJP and Cong leaders, a Supreme Court judge, an eminent lawyer and secretary general of Catholic Bishop Council of India. […]
In the run up to what will be a defining moment for the Catholic Church in Calcutta, when the city’s celebrated ‘Saint of the gutters’ will be elevated to an ‘official saint’ of the Church, the city at large is going sentimental. People in Calcutta celebrated the birthday of Blessed Mother Teresa days before she is […]
[Jesuit Father Kinley Tshering is the current provincial of Darjeeling in India, and, so far as anyone knows, the lone Bhutanese Catholic. A landlocked country in south Asia nestled between China and India, Bhutan has a population that’s two-thirds Buddhist and one-third Hindu, with everyone else accounting for less than one percent of the country’s […]
While Maharastra might indict Islamic tele-evangelist Naik for unlawful activities, the case is stirring up a lot of interest in Muslim and non-Muslim circles all over the country. Several liberal Muslims have been quite uncomfortable with the tone and nature of Naik’s television broadcasts, which they say lean towards the fundamentalist, Wahabi brand of Islam, […]
Meghalaya will host a 4-day film festival titled ‘Mother Teresa International Film Festival (MTIFF)’ based on the life and teachings of noble laureate Mother Teresa from September 6 to 9 in Shillong. To be organized by the SIGNIS : the World Catholic Association for Communication’s as a mark of the canonization of Mother Teresa, the […]
AGARTALA: Gymnast Dipa Karmakar, fresh from the Rio Olympics received a rousing welcome as she touched down on her home state. The state government declared a one day holiday for educational institutions in honour of Deepa, who actually didn’t win a bronze but took fourth place. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced that Dipa Karmakar would be […]
