Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Lent Day 15: Making room for compassion and love

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Crowds are so difficult to handle. There are crowds because of lack of space and crowds which are created because of lack of patience. The c...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Independence day prayer

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Thank you God for giving us the spirit of independence and for helping us come out of the yoke of slavery. We are thankful for the lives...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

A republic of ideas

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The concept of a republic should be seen as the start of a coming together of people in one place, region and a mix of several regions whi...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Marriage as a sacrament of love, care and consensus instead of a religious seal for rape

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A statement has come from a section of the legislature in India explaining that rape within marriage cannot come under the preview of rape...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Making the church rape free

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After a long struggle the symbol of hope for women has died down. We are told that India’s daughter wanted to live and continued to struggle...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

Protest hard but protest real

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It would be wrong to say that India is seeing unprecedented protests following the brutal violence and pain inflicted upon a 23 year old wom...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Cricket fever and national loyalties

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The India-Australia cricket series was expected to be the end of an era of Australian cricket at the end of which former Australian captain ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Fuelling dissent

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The past year has seen several fuel hikes in India because of the deregulation of fuel prices, especially of petrol. This has brought about...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The politicizing of protest

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Protest has always been associated with those in the margins, those who have no one to speak for them and those who have no one who cares. ...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

What is the programme Anna?

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The national capital is brimming with large crowds and police personel. Lots of people from several parts of the country are congregating to...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

India in the grip of 3G: What an idea?!!

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The Idea 3G advertisement sums up the way technology has gripped the Indian middle class. People to people contact is a thing of the past an...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Willful blindness: The lies of the empire

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Empires are built on the lives of an unsuspecting public. People are spied on, privacy is intruded upon and reputations are battered. Every ...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Religion and mobile number portability (MNP)

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India introduced the mobile number portability (MNP) option for mobile phone consumers in January, 2011. Ever since, 8.54 million customers ...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

My vote is losing its sting

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The beauty of a democracy is the power of the finger and ability of the mind to cast a vote in favour of what is deemed good. Protest moveme...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Let us fast and protest against corruption this lent

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There is just above two weeks remaining for the great lent to end. We have fasted, prayed, helped and grown spiritually. But have we really ...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Why the church is far from winning a cricket world cup?!

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India has won the cricket world cup 2011 . The euphoria has not settled down and state governments are competing with one another in offerin...
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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Cricket is not about being perfect

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A majority of people in India are counting minutes and seconds as they continue to hope that their cricket team will win the final of the cr...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

An India-Pakistan cricket match: A perfect detour for a corruption ridden country

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India is under a mass hysteria. It is not only young teenagers, youngsters and the youthful work force but also the 40-ish and 50-ish voters...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

The essence of Lent: Learning and struggling to bend our knees, mend our hearts, and lend our hands.

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Lent is observed in almost all Christian traditions in various forms whereby some abstain from meat, dairy products and fish, some from meat...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Sedition as the biggest addiction in a growing democracy

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India and China are two countries which are growing the fastest in the world today. The two countries have several things which separate the...