George Menezes

If there is a Mumbai-walla who is in the news come rain or shine, Coke or Pepsi, it is George the dragon-slayer as he was once known.
Today, George Fernandes is not just a fallen Defence minister. (more…)

I am responding to an embarrassing question asked by the Chief Justice of India while disposing of our case for equal rights for Dalit Christians. He asked whether Christians also practice caste system. He gave the Centre eight weeks to respond to the Court. (more…)

For some time now the world has been living in the shadow of the leadership of people like George Bush and Tony Blair.

One, the leader of the most powerful nation in the world and the other the leader of a much admired nation. Admired for its democratic parliamentary system, its outstanding judiciary and it is multiculturalism.

Nearer home we have a Prime Minister of the highest integrity, a competent economist whose dithering on important issues and whose weak, mumbling personality behind the microphone have driven B schools to get the best scholars to research the new meaning of leadership. (more…)

When I used to serve mass in a small church in Dharwad I used to feel empowered. When I sang in the choir in the company of girls I felt that both boys and girls were empowered.

Many years later I discovered the truth. My father was an agnostic who did not go to church for 40 years. My mother was a saint who used to break journey to attend daily Mass during all our growing years. When my father finally made peace with God and started to attend Church he was knighted by the Holy Father. (more…)