Saturday, March 27, 2010

Who gets to switch off?

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Today is Earth Hour 2010 and people in India will switch off electricity during 8:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. This urge to switch off and even slow...
Friday, March 26, 2010

The donkey says no

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We are inching closer to celebrating Palm Sunday and any sermon on the day cannot forget the donkey on which Jesus made the triumphant entr...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Please, atleast a few crumbs today

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For what seemed to be a cake walk, the drama has just started. Reservation for women in parliament in India has been on the agenda for quite...
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Will I choose right this lent?

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Choice is not just a matter of orientation and learning. It is a step which is profoundly and horribly difficult. Yet many think it is a giv...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Being beautiful during lent

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The picture of what is beautiful is a constructed one. Culture passes us through the rites of purification and injects the botox of beauty ...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Will you be my Valentine this lent?

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Yesterday in church I preached about preparing for the great lent. But I also preached on Valentine’s day. Obviously one would immediately r...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Is my church a public monument?

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Where does one learn the unforgettable lesson of sharing one’s resources with others? In one’s house…no. My first lessons of sharing what I...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Am I an Indian?

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India has crossed sixty years of being declared a republic and it is an achievement which is laudable. Higher foreign exchange reserves, a r...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

I refuse to speak

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Maharashtra has done it again. After the Shiv Sena and MNS arm twisting of the state, the Congress government has joined the queue quoting ...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

New year and the power of no

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We are still very much in the fervour and flavour of the new year 2010 and it makes pure sense to gung-ho with the things which need to be d...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Knowing who you are.

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The beginning of a year also poses the difficult question of what to start writing on. For obvious reasons, the beginning of the year post w...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

I’m lovin’ it!!!

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Mcdonalds has already managed to swamp India with the I’m lovin’ it slogan. Good one to place the emphasis on what they claim to be finger l...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Being complete for Christmas???

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Kripayal jaatha- guhayilamarnone Pazhthuniyal-le potheyapettone deva… daya cheythedeeneme (Verses from the sung liturgy for Christmas in ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

D for idiocracy

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A bill to make voting compulsory ? Modi has outdone himself in the quest of bringing draconian laws onto an unsuspecting and susceptible pub...
Monday, December 21, 2009

The Goan mismatch

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The recent speech in the Rajya Sabha by a Congress party member of parliament from Goa, Shantaram Naik, on the rape and murder of a British...