8 September – International Literacy Day
Chacko Anthony Statistics are frightening. Reports say that 773 million adults and young people lack basic skills. 617 million children and adolescents are not achieving minimum proficiency in reading and…
5 September – Teachers’ Day
Chacko Anthony 5 September is the day dedicated to celebrate Teachers’ Day in India. This day we remember Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan whose birth anniversary is 5th September. Our first Vice…
21 August – World Senior Citizens Day
A Homage P. A. Chacko Senior citizens! Men and women who have shouldered responsibilities for decades in caring for children, family and the nation. Seniority catches with them. Advancing age…
India 75th Year of Independence
Is India derailed from its ‘tryst with destiny’? Is India on the reverse gear to the land of unscientific and illogical module? Why has aspirational India been arrested in its…
09 August International Day of Indigenous Peoples
Chacko AnthonyWorld’s indigenous people are at the crossroads of life today. Their identity is being threatened. Centuries-old land and abode are encroached by forces that have no interest in their…
30 July Anti-Human Trafficking Day
Chacko Anthony Human trafficking takes many forms. Anti-social persons make it a business. Brokers make a deal as middlemen. Many helpless people are coerced into it. Many are abducted. Some…
1 July Doctors Day
Chacko Atnony SJ National Doctors’ Day is a day celebrated globally to appreciate the contributions of physicians to our lives. Especially in this Covid pandemic time, they sacrifice their life…
3O JUNE HUL DIVAS
Jacob Hembrom SJ There were clouds of helplessness in the minds of Adivasis. Anger and frustration were the prominent feelings of people all over. There were hardly any rays of…
30 June In honour of Santal Rebellion Martyrs
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30 June – Santal Rebellion Remembrance Day
Chacko Anthony SJ Sido, Kanhu, Chand & Bhairav! Four brothers of the Murmu family of Barhait Bhognadih village in Jharkhand, eastern India. Phulo and Jhano Murmu, their heroic sisters! These…