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The Mirror India Refuses to Face

God does not hide in distant heavens or grand temples. He walks our streets, sits in broken homes, waits in unheard cries. Yet we overlook Him daily. When we ignore the poor, we ignore the very pres

Fr. Gaurav Nair Fr. Gaurav Nair
17 Nov 2025

The Poor are with Us!

Pope Leo XIV's call for the World Day of the Poor urges Christians to reject token charity, confront structural injustice, and recognise the poor as bearers of hope who reveal the Gospel's truth. The

Cedric Prakash Cedric Prakash
17 Nov 2025

Articles

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