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Smallpox Eradication A Tale of Two Kerala Priests

India, Sept. 7 -- If you ask me which was the greatest news story I reported or commented upon during my 53 years in journalism, I would answer without batting an eyelid: the eradication of smallpox f... Read More


Unity in Diversity: Rhetoric or Reality?

India, Sept. 7 -- What BJP-RSS leaders say when they are abroad, especially in democratic countries, is often very different from what is happening in India under the BJP regime. In their speeches and... Read More


Western Governments Look Away, India Pays The Price

India, Sept. 7 -- The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is in the midst of a centenary-year international outreach campaign, with its chief, Mohan Bhagwat, travelling abroad to meet political figures ... Read More


West Shows the Mirror to Bhagwat

India, Sept. 7 -- A couple of centuries ago, Indian tradition decreed that any member of the social elite who crossed the seven seas would instantly lose their caste status. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi... Read More


The Great Excursion

India, Sept. 7 -- Mohan Bhagwat has completed what was billed as a historic three-nation international outreach of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. America, Canada, and Britain were supposed to hear t... Read More


Pope Leo XIV Honours Veteran Catholic Journalist and Author Ignatius Gonsalves with Papal Knighthood

India, Aug. 31 -- It was a moment of Magnificat for the Indian Catholic media fraternity when the Metropolitan Archbishop of Verapoly, the Most Rev. Joseph Kalathiparambil, solemnly announced the best... Read More


Gen Alpha's Challenge to the Idea of Viksit Bharat

India, Aug. 31 -- One of the consequences of the Gen Z protest at Jantar Mantar against question paper leaks and the government's lack of accountability has been a wave of protests by schoolchildren a... Read More


A Letter to Maharashtra CM The State has No Role in Faith

India, Aug. 31 -- Dear Shri Devendra Fadnavis Ji, You may be supremely happy that your Freedom of Religion Bill has received the President's assent and has now come into force in Maharashtra. But the... Read More


Criminalising Conscience

India, Aug. 31 -- The Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Act, 2026, has finally come into force, proving that India is being run by fundamentalists with neither conscience nor consciousness. Its implemen... Read More


The Targeted Hate in the Maharashtra Law

India, Aug. 31 -- It has been clear for some years now that anti-conversion laws were not created to stop conversions to Christianity by force and fraud, two oxymoronic terms in a Hindu-majority natio... Read More