In the 40s and 50s we lived in an idyll place called Dharwad a centre of education and culture and peaceful existence. When I look back I think of it as the “desi” version of Cambridge which I visited recently to spend time with my daughter Anjali and her husband Sven. (more…)
If nothing else, the title of this piece will ensure a more than normal readership. People love to hear confessions. Especially when it involves a person who they feel “thinks no end of himself”.
Impotency after all is a subject which like death is a great leveler. May be Charlie Chaplin is an exception, but it comes to each one of us stealthily, leaving us confused and groping. It functions beyond politics and, all said and done, defies the reach of “Mandalization” (more…)
As someone who has been involved with the Catholic Church in India and with Christian movements in general I am deeply concerned at the widely spread sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church and the resultant crisis in Europe and in the United States, slowly but surely affecting the Church in India and other parts of the world. We already have a couple of cases of erring priests about to be arrested in the United States being given shelter in India by their Bishops. (more…)
The month of October was not just the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. It was the remembrance and resurrection of several Gandhis and the urge to rework, in wordy debate, the romantic, the not so romantic and even the brutal moments of their lives. (more…)
