George Menezes

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 →

I am sure there is nobody on the planet that does not have reservations.

Having participated in competitive sports till the age of 40, some cricket and a great deal of hockey, I carry broken fingers and damaged cartilages and ligaments as my old age baggage, and I have serious reservations about the state of these sports in my country.

More than 33 percent I can assure you. Read the rest of this entry →

Today I am a wordsmith without my ammunition of words. That is the fate of

Writers experiencing loss and unbearable grief.

I am haunted by a hundred questions. Is it too early to write this? Is it too late?

Should I write about it at all? Should I share with my readers something that is so

private and personal ? The triumphant return of my old girl to a place of eternal

peace and serenity in the midst of the silence of green pastures; broken only by the

sound of running brooks?

I know only one thing with certainty. I must write or I will die! Read the rest of this entry →