Pope’s World Youth Day Message
P. A. Chacko SJ Pope Francis sent out a message for World Youth Day to be celebrated on 24 Nov. 2024. The Pope encourages young people to embrace life’s challenges…
Onam- Kerala Festival
P. A. Chacko Onam is Kerala’s harvest festival. Though a story is built around a Hindu mythological king, this annual celebration has become an all Kerala cultural festival. The legend…
Are the Chief Justice and the Prime Minister of India on trial?
Primi Minister Modi’s attending the Ganpati Puja at the residence of the Chief Justice of India Chandrachud has created not just a small storm in a tea cup. The Prime…
KARAM FESTIVAL
P. A. Chacko Karam (colloquially Karma) is a harvest festival celebrated particularly in central India by the indigenous people.The celebration is done by them in the states of Jharkhand, West…
Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury (12 August 1952 – 12 September 2024) passed away. Yechury was an Indian Marxist politician and was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and…
Fr. Constant Lievens and Fr. J. B. Hoffman
P. A. Chacko S. J. Fr. Constant Lievens and Fr. J. B. Hoffman: Two great Jesuits and pillars of the Chotanagpur missionary venture in tribal dominated central India.Their missionary approach…
Justice is still a mirage for Adivasis’
‘Justice is still a mirage for Adivasis’ Himanshu Kumar on WhatsApp Sukdi is an Adivasi woman whose husband was killed by the police first, and a few years later, her…
Victims on a Drip
P. A. Chacko A recent study was put out by the Jharkhand-based Jharkhand Janadhikar Manchlooking into the BJP’s hue and cry about the so-called Bangladeshi infiltrators into Santal Parganas in…
A kiss, a pact, a commitment!
P. A. Chacko SJ A historic commitment to journey together, searching for lasting solutions to end ‘religiously inspired violence and to protect the planet.’The personalities are the head of the…
The Daring Nun
P.A.Chacko S.J She was courageous. A peep out of the secure Loreto convent walls said it all. It brought to her sights and sounds of human beings in the underbelly…