India can learn much from Sri Lanka—discipline on the roads, cleanliness in public spaces, honesty in trade, and humility in politics. These everyday practices demonstrate how small acts of integrity

India's festivals once embodied unity and shared joy. Today, many are hijacked by politics, fundamentalism, and hate. To reclaim their soul, we must return to inclusivity, interfaith harmony, and the

Durga Puja is not just a celebration, but an integral part of everyday life in Bengal. Through clay idols, local artistry, and community effort, the festival reminds people each year to confront injus

"The Emperor is naked!" screamed the little child gleefully! That said it all!

India's anti-conversion laws, active in 12 states, shift the burden of proof onto minorities and fuel suspicion despite census data showing Christians remain 2.3%. Cloaked as "freedom," these laws are

Saint Devasahayam's story is a reminder that holiness is not confined to pulpits but lived in ordinary lives. As India's patron of lay faithful, he offers an extraordinary witness to perseverance, for

Shakuni is quite different. He is a scheming villain and cruel strategist. He always plans for my downfall. And I to have to find out the ruse to escape from him. No wonder that he is always on my min

Dear leaders, before you unleash another wave of hate speeches or whisper another divisive law, pause. Think of that IT professional or student being sent home from America, of that trader struggling

Mohan Bhagwat's rhetoric has lit communal tinder. His statements urging Hindu claims to Muslim sites while disavowing institutional involvement, yet permitting cadres' action, signal a likely mass tem

India's lived reality resists propaganda: Nirankaris painting Bible verses, Muslims performing Hindu rites, Christians caring for the abandoned. Anti-conversion laws and bulldozer threats cannot erase

The Gen Z uprising in Nepal is a warning for India. With rising unemployment, inequality, corruption, and digital repression, young people can swiftly transform discontent into revolt—igniting change

A city that boasts modernity denies its daughters the right to be born. Delhi's sex ratio is a national betrayal. We must demand more than slogans and schemes. There are thousands of missing daughters

Historical revision must pursue truth and scientific objectivity. It must correct biases without replacing one-sidedness with another. Credit colonial-era scholarship where deserved, expose caste-ed p

Progress is often hailed as inevitable, yet history warns that unchecked change without moral direction can breed violence, corruption, and inequality. Actual progress demands not just science and tec

The louder the music at a leader's birthday, the weaker the message of democracy becomes. The bigger the cut-outs, the smaller the confidence. It is almost as if the candles on the cake are meant to d

Close at the heel of our other neighbours, Nepal's journey has swung between hope and betrayal. The monarchy fell, the republic faltered, and now its youth demand dignity, justice, and a future free f

The recent Vice-Presidential election has exposed deep cracks in India's democracy. Cross-voting, intimidation, abstentions, and invalid ballots have raised serious doubts. It ultimately begs the ques

September 11 carries memories of violence and division, but also of Gandhi's Satyagraha and Vivekananda's call to end fanaticism. In a world scarred by war, injustice, and hate, 9/11 must challenge us

India may soon become the world's third-largest economy, but its low per capita income, unmitigated inequality, weak healthcare, and fragile education system reveal a different truth. GDP milestones a

Modi's long-delayed visit to Manipur are mere optics. After two years of silence amid ethnic cleansing, displacement, and inhumanity by the Meiteis, what peace, protection of minorities, and restorati

Umar Khalid, the Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar who has spent more than five years in jail, on Thursday, September 11, told a Delhi court that the larger Conspiracy case in connection with the 20

Looking back at the 100 years of Medical Mission Sisters, there was a pioneering spirit to begin health care facilities for the less privileged, openness to look at themselves critically to make their

Though declared a secular republic in 2008, the nation's legal and cultural frameworks remain steeped in Hindu-majority sentiment. Nepal's National Penal Code of 2017 criminalises religious conversion

To be a "Carmelite on the street" is to unite deep prayer with public courage. We must build interior castles yet opening their gates, carrying contemplation into classrooms, farms, protests, and parl

In today's India, more than flyovers or metros, what we desperately need are bridges. Bridges between communities. Bridges between faiths. Bridges strong enough to carry us into the future without col

On this Teachers' Day, twinned with the feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta, we are reminded that true education is not marks or profit but compassion. Mother Teresa's legacy challenges us to nurture, gui

Teachers' Day honours Dr. Radhakrishnan's vision, yet teachers remain undervalued, underpaid, and scapegoated for systemic failures. Teachers must inspire students to rise beyond confinement and reali

Mary Roy shattered archaic inheritance laws, defying the Church and the state. Arundhati Roy, her daughter, turned pain into literature. Mother Mary Comes To Me reveals a turbulent family saga where g

From MK Gandhi's padayatras to Rahul Gandhi's nationwide journeys, the tradition of walking with people has evolved into a fight for unity, justice, and voter rights. These yatras are keys to challeng

A seventy-year-old widow stranded for a week in twelve feet of floodwater embodies the devastation that is taking place. Crops, homes, and lives lie ruined, yet politics overshadows relief. Unless str

On August 15, Modi abandoned even the pretence of Nehruvian inclusivity, recasting the Independence Day address as a Hindutva manifesto. From demonising minorities to extolling the RSS, his speech mar

Bengali-speaking Indian citizens who migrated for work face detentions, deportations, and suspicion across BJP-ruled states. They are stripped of livelihood and identity. They are essential to its eco

The Supreme Court, in Dharam Singh v. State of UP, emphasised that government employment must uphold constitutional justice and dignity, rather than mimicking market contracts. Yet, rising contractual

Dragged from his home, beaten, and betrayed by police, Ayatu Ram Podiyami's only "crime" was refusing to renounce Christ. His story mirrors that of hundreds across India: the cries of the persecuted a

A government that preaches against "sins" of everyday life, while committing one of its own on the grandest scale. Maybe the real sermon should be this—stop calling my smoke or cheese a sin, until you