George Menezes

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” Read the rest of this entry →

Whoever Godfrey Pereira is, we Goans need to either give him an award, or pin a medal on his Bleddy East Indian chest.

Godfrey Pereira, a journalist who once worked with Sunday magazine Kolkotta and India Today wrote a “no holds barred” piece on the Goanet chastising the laid-back Goans and literally tearing them to pieces in the same fashion as the mine owners are tearing up the rich Goan soil mindless of the destruction that is caused all around. Read the rest of this entry →

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. Read the rest of this entry →

I suppose there must be hundreds of people like me who add 2 and 2 together and never get 4. Among the many things I do not have a head for, figures would top the list. I believe now that I am not on the job market,

 I can publicly confess that I was not being sent up by my school for my matriculation examination because my marks in mathematics never reached two digit figures. Read the rest of this entry →