Imagine a world that has depleted itself of all its resources. Where women and children are looked on as liabilities. Where violence is as common as a morning breakfast, if you are lucky enough to find anything to eat. Where a Snickers bar is almost as valuable as gold. The film “Nowhere” [on Netflix] has […]
Catholic students in a well known Jesuit College in Bihar may have been a bit surprised to see a Catholic Priest hold up the Constitution of India and say, “This is the most Sacred Book of the Citizen of India. Not the Bible, Not the Quran, Not the Bhagwad Gita.” The priest who was addressing […]
In this hard hitting reflection, Cedric Prakash discusses ‘The betrayal of Christ and Constitution‘. For the past couple of days, electronic and print mainstream media in the country, have been highlighting the public ‘promise’ made by the Archbishop of Tellicherry. During a protest rally of some Catholic rubber farmers he offered to help the BJP […]
Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s offices and seized its journalists’ phones in a stunning — and apparently retaliatory — move on Tuesday (February 14), says The Washington Post. This Valentine Day move against the British broadcaster came weeks after it aired a polarizing documentary examining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rise and his handling […]
A documentary produced in the Northeast has been selected for screening in a prestigious international film festival in France. ‘Mask Art of Majuli’, a documentary film featuring the Satriya mask-making culture of the famed river island in Assam, has been chosen for competition sections of the 29th Festival International des Cinemas d’Asie (FICA) in France […]
With the hostile takeover of NewDelhi Television, we have seen the last of the ‘independent’ mainstream television channels in India. In the latest in a series of resignations at the company after it was taken over by the Adani group, Journalists and anchosr Nidhi Razdan and Sreenivasan Jain have quit NDTV. Razdan had worked at […]
The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) is announced that the ‘ICPA Award for the Best Reportage on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes’, [sponsored by the CBCI Office for Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes], will be awarded to Father Irudhaya Jothi SJ for authentically and consistently being the voice of people’s rights, especially the poor Dalits […]
“In a redux of a bygone age, Buckingham Palace was at the apex of global power — if just for a day”was how one journalist with the Washington Post described the atmosphere in the United Kingdom on Monday, as the nation bid its final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II. And so it was. The world […]
The Central Government is to constitute a ‘national commission’ to study the social, economic and educational status of Scheduled Caste, or Dalit converts to ‘religions other than Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism’, it is learnt. The proposal is being actively discussed at the Centre, and a decision is likely to be taken soon, according to some […]
It is so disturbing to hear the news these days. People killing each other in the name of religion, protests and money. I literally do not understand. The journalist and fact checker, Mohammad Zubair, has been arrested on a tweet made in 2018, because somebody claimed that he had hurt his religious sentiments! In the […]
Watch out ! That plastic stirrer that you have in your plastic coffee cup may land you in more trouble than you bargained for. From tomorrow, people who use single use plastic in public places may have to cough up as much as a lakh of rupees! And we are not joking! From July 1, […]
The citizens who depended on factual news and accurate reporting all over the country have expressed shock and surprise at the arrest of Muhammad Zubair, one of India’s trusted journalists, being arrested for ‘hurting religious belief’ and ‘provoking people to cause riot’. A Delhi court today [Tuesday, 28 June] granted the police four-day custody of […]
