A BUILDER OF YOUNG LIVES
Samarpita Banerjee
Pune: Renuka and Anjana enter the room with a twinkle in their eyes. And why not? They had a big news to announce. “I scored 87 per cent in my class VII exam,” Renuka announces. “And I 85 per cent,” chimes in Anjana.
What makes the achievement of these two girls [...]
Christa Purana still moves faithful to tears
Ashley D’Mello | TNN
Mumbai: Avelino Rejoice Dhakul, 81, never fails to bring tears to people’s eyes when he renders the Passion of Christ from the Christa Purana, describing scenes from the crucifixion at the Good Friday service at St Francis Xavier Church, Vile Parle.
Dhakul, who has [...]
An article courtesy TOI, of 17 March.
It is very very rare to see such frank opinions on extremists, root cause for extremism, especially when linked to a religion with more than its share of violence and man made tragedies.
Even brave souls like MJ Akbar have not been so forthright in in voicing their opinions.
We wish [...]
Starvation killing jumbos
N D Shiva Kumar | TNN
Of 105 elephants that died in 2007-08, post-mortem of 22 was done after 10 to 25 days of death.
Due to the delay, between 2002 and 2008, the bodies of 23 elephants decomposed and the reason for deaths couldn’t be ascertained.
Five elephants died due to dehydration [...]
Girl tops exam, beats disability
Visually Impaired Is An Ace
Ikram Khan | TNN
Bangalore: She can’t see but is showing the way. Sumaiya Khan, 15, topped the exams at St Michael’s High School (RT Nagar) and promises to continue her sterling performance in college next year.
Sumaiya was adjudged the best student after securing 94% in [...]
Top French honour for Pondy Sanskrit scholar
Bosco Dominique | TNN
BIRTHDAY GIFT: S Sambanda Sivacharyar, Sanskrit scholar and research assistant of French Institute of Pondicherry
Puducherry: He has been working more than 10 hours a day for the past five decades, collecting palm leaf manuscripts in different scripts from various parts of country and categorising them [...]
THEY CARE: Kyle Ian Fleming and Leroy Ashley Tills
Giving dignity to a community
Here’s an organization that works for the uplift of Anglo-Indians in Bangalore
Yamini Nair | TNN
They are a distinct yet minority community originating in India, consisting of people of British, French, Portuguese or Dutch ancestry whose native language is English. The Anglo-Indians, though [...]
This is a wonderful article by Arif Mohammed Khan, citing the poor leadership offered to the Muslim community from self-proclaimed muslim bodies such as the Personal Law Board, Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat and Jamaat-e-Islami. These organisations he says hijack the core muslim agenda, often backed by shameless political patronage, just as had happened in the Shah Bano [...]
OCTOBER WILL be a good month to be a Christian in India. On the 12th, Anna Muttathupandathu of Kottayam will become Saint Alphonsa.
Anna was beatified by the Vatican in 1986 as the Blessed Alphonsa and on March 1, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI decided that she deserved sainthood. Two Sundays from now, she will [...]
n 2004 my friend and mentor, Prasanna Lal Das, wrote an article called “Article 370 – a case to extend it beyond Kashmir“, and ofcourse as most Indians do, I was out of my wits on reading the title. To me Article 370 was clearly another case of appeasement of “kashmiri muslims”. I never read [...]