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India Needs a Law to Protect Its Abandoned Infants

India, Aug. 31 -- In July 2025, a woman in Haryana's Kaithal district allegedly suffocated her newborn and hid the body in a cattle shed. In April 2025, police in Bengaluru found a stillborn infant du... Read More


Losing Pitch Together!

India, Aug. 24 -- There is a frightening moment in choral singing when the entire choir begins to lose pitch. Nobody notices it at first. The sopranos are singing confidently. The altos are followin... Read More


Deepening Distress

India, Aug. 24 -- Widening restlessness It came as a big surprise, for many a big shock, when they heard that 60,000 Moroccans had crossed their country's borders and swam across to Ceuta Island that ... Read More


Republic of Unaccountability

India, Aug. 24 -- There is no better illustration of the state of accountability in India today than the absence of a one-line answer to a simple question: who ordered the firing of pellet guns on pro... Read More


David Turns Goliath

India, Aug. 24 -- In the Biblical classical underdog story of David and Goliath in the first Book of Samuel, chapter 17, the diminutive young shepherd David faces the nine-foot-tall, bronze-armoured G... Read More


Justice Begins with Us!

India, Aug. 24 -- It is heart-warming that the Catholic Church in India will observe August 23 as 'Justice Sunday.' The theme is 'Justice Begins with Us' (Is 1:17). In a communique dated July 22, 2026... Read More


Open Letter to Harish Salve Deeds, Not Words, Define a Man

India, Aug. 24 -- Dear Shri Harish Salve Ji, I usually do not watch television interviews, except when the interviewer is Karan Thapar, a habit I developed when he made his debut producing a weekly b... Read More


Are you a "Dimagi Naxal?"

India, Aug. 24 -- The politics of labelling certain groups or ideologies to demarcate them is emerging day by day from responsible individuals to particular groups. The most recent example is the expr... Read More


Dimaagi Naxals, Manufacturing a New Enemy

India, Aug. 24 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known for coining new political terminologies, particularly for his opponents and critics. These include Andolanjeevi for protesters; Urban Naxals for... Read More


Inventing the Enemy

India, Aug. 24 -- The politics of labelling is not uniquely Indian. Across time and space, governments and political movements have employed the tactic of naming their opponents that carry an immediat... Read More