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The Future Rests on a Generation That Must Step Up

A swelling young population watches a democracy strained by distrust and division. But numbers alone change nothing. It is the willingness to confront power, refuse propaganda, and imagine differently

Fr. Gaurav Nair Fr. Gaurav Nair
08 Dec 2025

The Evolution of Generational Identity: Understanding Gen Z

Across the Global South, a restless Gen Z is rising against corruption, inequality and jobless growth. Young, connected and unwilling to migrate, they demand dignity at home—forcing fragile government

Fr. John Felix Raj & Prabhat Kumar Datta Fr. John Felix Raj & Prabhat Kumar Datta
08 Dec 2025

Articles

From colonial opium to today's smartphones, India has perfected the art of numbing its youth. While neighbours topple governments through conviction and courage, our fatalism breeds a quietism that su

A. J. Philip A. J. Philip
08 Dec 2025

Across state and cultural frontiers, a new generation is redefining activism—mixing digital mobilisation with grassroots courage to defend land, identity and ecology. Their persistence shows that mean

Pachu Menon Pachu Menon
08 Dec 2025

A convention exposing nearly 5,000 attacks on Christians drew barely fifteen hundred people—yet concerts pack stadiums. If we can gather for spectacle but not for suffering, our witness is fractured.

Vijayesh Lal Vijayesh Lal
08 Dec 2025

Leadership training empowers children with discipline, confidence, and clarity of vision. Through inclusive learning, social awareness, and value-based activities, they learn to respect diversity, exp

Jacob Peenikaparambil Jacob Peenikaparambil
08 Dec 2025

The Kamalesan case reveals how inherited colonial structures continue to shape the Army's religious practices. By prioritising ritual conformity over constitutional freedom, the forces risk underminin

Oliver D'Souza Oliver D'Souza
08 Dec 2025

Zohran Mamdani's rise in New York exposes a bitter truth: a Muslim idealist can inspire America, yet would be unthinkable in today's India, where Hindutva politics has normalised bigotry and rendered

Mathew John Mathew John
08 Dec 2025

Climate change is now a daily classroom disruptor, pushing the already precariously perched crores of Indian children—especially girls and those in vulnerable regions—out of learning. Unless resilient

Jaswant Kaur Jaswant Kaur
08 Dec 2025

The ideas sown in classrooms today will shape the country tomorrow. India must decide whether it wants citizens who can think, question, and understand—or citizens trained only to conform. The choice

Fr Soroj Mullick, SDB Fr Soroj Mullick, SDB
08 Dec 2025

In your Jasmine hall, I landed Hoping to find refuge, to be free, and sleep, But all I met were your stares, sharp, cold, and protesting.

Dr Suryaraju Mattimalla Dr Suryaraju Mattimalla
08 Dec 2025

Children are either obedient or disobedient. If they are obedient, we treat them as our slaves. And if they are rebellious, we wash our hands of them. Our mind, too, is like a child, and children are

P. Raja P. Raja
08 Dec 2025

We are back to school, playing childish games, and instead of displaying strength, we display insecurity. Instead of leadership, we display fear. Instead of solving problems, we play piggyback and kab

Robert Clements Robert Clements
08 Dec 2025

India's ambitious overhaul of its labour law architecture—by consolidating 29 existing laws into four comprehensive Labour Codes—is projected as a landmark reform intended to simplify compliance, prom

Jose Vattakuzhy Jose Vattakuzhy
01 Dec 2025

Across India, workers and unions are resisting labour codes that dismantle decades of hard-won rights. As corporate elites are celebrated, labourers face exclusion, precarity and silencing. The battle

Prakash Louis Prakash Louis
01 Dec 2025

I have always considered myself a temple-goer. That description may seem inadequate, for my journeys have taken me from the southern tip of the subcontinent to the Himalayan foothills, tracing not mer

A. J. Philip A. J. Philip
01 Dec 2025

Sixteen BLO deaths in three weeks expose the brutal human cost of an impossible SIR timeline. As overworked field staff collapse under pressure, the Election Commission denies responsibility, and an a

Jacob Peenikaparambil Jacob Peenikaparambil
01 Dec 2025

Two Jesuit moments, a century apart, reveal a stark contrast: courage that welcomed Gandhi, and caution that silenced a Stan Swamy lecture. As we mark the feast of St. Xavier, we are asked not to judg

Fr. Sebastian James, SJ Fr. Sebastian James, SJ
01 Dec 2025

O Father of India, on this sacred day, Not in prayer of sorrow do we gather, For your light is still dancing in our hearts. A fire that never dies, never ends.

Dr Suryaraju Mattimalla Dr Suryaraju Mattimalla
01 Dec 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, the Constitution's guarantees feel symbolic to millions. With courts, policing, voter rolls and land rights tilting in one direction, religious minorities confront a future w

John Dayal John Dayal
01 Dec 2025

Beneath the speeches of Constitution Day lies a nation in peril. Rights are eroded, institutions compromised, minorities targeted, and democracy is hollowed out. Ambedkar's warnings echo today, demand

Cedric Prakash Cedric Prakash
01 Dec 2025

Aeschylus, the Greek tragedian, wanted to know how he was destined to die. Hence, he consulted a fortune teller who told him the truth and nothing but the truth. "You would meet your death under a fal

P. Raja P. Raja
01 Dec 2025

Picture two engines joined together. Both powerful, both capable of pulling a nation forward. But one engine pulls east and the other west. They strain. They struggle. And the train goes nowhere.

Robert Clements Robert Clements
01 Dec 2025

In a speech heavy on self-glorification and light on facts, Modi reshaped history to suit himself. The real shock was Tharoor's applause. When public thinkers start echoing power instead of challengin

A. J. Philip A. J. Philip
24 Nov 2025

While oligarchs grow unimaginably rich, institutions crumble and corruption mutates into a system-wide creed. The real scandal is not just the loot—it is a society so intimidated, polarised and distra

Mathew John Mathew John
24 Nov 2025

The Delhi blast shows how terror adapts while the State repeats familiar missteps. Intelligence gaps, punitive demolitions, and deepening alienation raise a tricky question: is India confronting terro

Jacob Peenikaparambil Jacob Peenikaparambil
24 Nov 2025

The verdict of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the Presidential reference case is a severe blow to the federal principles of the Indian Constitution. A constitution bench of the Supreme

Joseph Maliakan Joseph Maliakan
24 Nov 2025

Thou dost the air of December, O Babasaheb, Tremble with thy memory. Out of each city, each village, each slum and dumb avenue, like waves upon Chaitya Bhoomi stand millions— Their tracks are suppl

Dr Suryaraju Mattimalla Dr Suryaraju Mattimalla
24 Nov 2025

Heaven begins wherever love becomes action. When we walk with the poor, listen to their cries, and share our blessings, we touch Christ Himself. Dilexi Te reminds us that compassion is not optional—it

Sr. Inigo, SSAM Sr. Inigo, SSAM
24 Nov 2025

India's future brightens when citizens embrace diversity, practise respectful dialogue, and act with conscience. Every small gesture of fairness and friendship strengthens the nation. True patriotism

Fr Soroj Mullick, SDB Fr Soroj Mullick, SDB
24 Nov 2025

All problems, if left unattended, either go away on their own or enlarge themselves to dangle like the sword of Damocles. So, the best way is to put our brains to proper use and find a solution.

P. Raja P. Raja
24 Nov 2025

Our strength has always been in those who think bravely and speak boldly. Let us not label them dangerous. Let us recognise them as the guardians of our freedom…

Robert Clements Robert Clements
24 Nov 2025

True worship begins where suffering is seen. We are confronted by one question: can any temple, devotion, or nation claim holiness while the poor remain unheard, unseen, and unprotected?

CM Paul CM Paul
17 Nov 2025

Tragedy forces the mind to wander into uncomfortable parallels. If past governments were grilled for lapses, why does silence reign today? Imagination becomes our only honest witness when accountabili

A. J. Philip A. J. Philip
17 Nov 2025

Denied constitutional justice and ecclesial equality, Dalit Christians stand in perpetual protest. Their struggle exposes a nation that brands caste as "Hindu" while practising it everywhere, and a Ch

John Dayal John Dayal
17 Nov 2025

Rising atrocities against Dalits on the one hand and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) ongoing attempts to integrate the Dalit community into their broader H

Jacob Peenikaparambil Jacob Peenikaparambil
17 Nov 2025

Skill India began as a bridge to opportunity but ultimately collapsed under its own pursuit of scale. Ghost trainees, fake centres and hollow certificates reveal a more profound crisis: a skilling eco

Jaswant Kaur Jaswant Kaur
17 Nov 2025

Political polarisation and the exportation of domestic exclusions have turned diaspora communities into flashpoints. Hindutva's global outreach and caste-based exclusion, which had long eroded India's

Thomas Menamparampil Thomas Menamparampil
17 Nov 2025

Behind India's booming fisheries stand migrant workers—people who cross states and seas for survival, yet receive little safety, welfare, or recognition. Their resilience sustains our blue economy; ou

Jose Vattakuzhy Jose Vattakuzhy
17 Nov 2025

These are advertisements that we often read in our dailies and watch with interest on our Android TV. They really inject venom but make us dance, sometimes with our family members. We rush to those pa

P. Raja P. Raja
17 Nov 2025

Until our opposition stops treating elections as clever games of combinations, of hurried alliances stitched only to topple others, and instead treats voters as thinking individuals, the ballot box wi

Robert Clements Robert Clements
17 Nov 2025