A Dalit Child’s Tragedy Exposes India’s Hollow Promises on Human Rights

A Dalit Child’s Tragedy Exposes India’s Hollow Promises on Human Rights

In India, where central and state governments often proclaim their commitment to human rights and the upliftment of marginalised communities, the grim reality tells a different story. The harrowing case of an 11-year-old Dalit girl, brutally raped and left to die after hours of waiting in an ambulance, lays bare the systemic failures that plague […]

A CHALLENGE TO COMMUNICATORS

A CHALLENGE TO COMMUNICATORS

By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ On  Sunday, 1st June, the Catholic Church will observe the 59th World Day of Social Communications. The day is significant because ‘communications’ is an important and integral dimension of the Church. ‘Communications Day’ is one of the old ‘special days’ observance by the Church. The message for this year, was […]

Kashmir’s Crisis: Rejecting Division and Demanding Reform

Kashmir’s Crisis: Rejecting Division and Demanding Reform

The brutal attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, on April 22, 2025, which claimed at least 28 lives and injured many others, was a calculated act of terrorism aimed at fracturing India’s communal harmony. This tragedy, striking at the heart of Kashmir’s tourism hub, demands that India’s youth reject divisive agendas and advocate for unity and substantive […]

The Right-Wing Media Machinery and the Silencing of Artists

The Right-Wing Media Machinery and the Silencing of Artists

Over the past decade, writers, journalists, and creative artists in India have found themselves increasingly trapped in the cross-hairs of a ruthless right-wing media machinery and its enforcers. What starts as a single voice—often a self-appointed guardian of propriety or a politically motivated zealot—taking offence quickly snowballs into a vicious onslaught. A pack of hounds […]

Saluting Zakia Jafri; Remembering the Gujarat Carnage 2002

Saluting Zakia Jafri; Remembering the Gujarat Carnage 2002

February will always be a painful month for some particularly the Jafri family: on 28 February 2002, Ehsan Jafri, a former Member of Parliament and an authentic and much-loved citizen of secular India was murdered; on 1 February 2025, his wife Zakiaben was called to her eternal reward. In the death of Zakiaben the people […]

Dismantling ‘Secularism’

Dismantling ‘Secularism’

On 28 January 2025, the well-known Calcutta daily ‘The Telegraph’ carried an article entitled ‘Rub your eyes: Hindu Rashtra Constitution to be unveiled at Mahakumbh on Basant Panchami’. The seemingly innocuous inside-page article, speaks volumes of the insidious yet meticulous plans which are being made, and also of the calculated attempts to destroy the secular […]

Gas stove or Grim Reaper?

Gas stove or Grim Reaper?

Gas stoves are estimated to lead to 40,000 premature deaths each year, shaving off roughly two years of an average person’s life span. Here’s a fly in the dal makhani for you ! The gas stove or cook-top , the heart of many kitchens, quietly boiling our morning milk, simmering soups, and so on, is […]

Wake up sleepyheads! World War III has already started!

Wake up sleepyheads! World War III has already started!

Call me Chicken Little, running around shouting that the sky is fallin’ on my head. But I do declare that that World War III has already started. If you take your noses out of your social media cocoons for a bit, and look at the events unfolding across the globe, it’s not hard to miss […]

Coca-Cola’s PR Nightmare: a Media Lesson in Realpolitik

Coca-Cola’s PR Nightmare: a Media Lesson in Realpolitik

Media trainer and communicator Frank Krishner breaks down Coke’s latest foot-in-the-mouth PR gaffe. The Perils of Miscommunication In a world where every word and action can be scrutinised, twisted, and amplified across continents, big brands like Coca-Cola need to tread carefully. A recent PR disaster in Bangladesh has shown just how quickly things can go […]

Outrage at the Paris Olympics: The Manufactured ‘Last Supper’ Meltdown

Outrage at the Paris Olympics: The Manufactured ‘Last Supper’ Meltdown

Ah, the Paris Olympics! A global stage for athletic prowess, unity, and…drag queens apparently causing a ruckus with the Christian right. The opening ceremony, with its dazzling spectacle of colour and dance, has been accused of mocking Christianity. But let’s unpack this alleged blasphemy, shall we? During the ceremony, a woman in a shimmering, halo-like […]

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