Aug. 12 International Youth Day
The theme of 2020: Youth Engagement for Global Action The world has witnessed beautiful scenes of youth power transforming into noble deeds. During recent periods of calamitous situations like Covid…
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY – August 09
August 9 is dedicated to honour Indigenous People of the world over. The indigenous are the earliest settlers in the areas they have been occupying for centuries. In India when…
Nagasaki Bombing – Aug.09, 1945
P. A. Chacko SJ U S president Harry S. Truman repeated his madness, just two days later, by ordering a second bombing of Japan in 1945 during the World War…
Hiroshima Day Aug. 06
P. A. Chacko SJ Aug.06, 1945 – Hiroshima Bombing World War II Greed for political power and world supremacy America detonated two nuclear weapons of mass destruction on Japanese city…
Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491 -1556)
P. A. Chacko SJ Born of the wealthy Basque Loyola family and son of a noble in Spain, Ignatius grew with the ambition of doing great things. As a young…
Nature Conservation Day – July 28
P. A. Chacko SJ Nature is our protector, our sustainer, our life-line, as it were. It sustains us with what we need. It protects us from harm, diseases and calamities.…
Late Gurucharan Murmu IPS
P. A. Chacko SJ For Dalits and Adivasis it is still a long way to freedom in this independent India. India is still labouring under centuries old caste confabulations and…
Dr. Ramdayal Munda (1939-2011)
P. A. Chacko S.J. Dr. Ramdayal Munda was an earnest proponent of indigenous people’s existence and identity. He was born on Aug.23, 1939 in Diuri village in Ranchi district of…
Anthony Murmu, Tribal Martyr
P. A. Chacko SJ Anthony Murmu, son of Michael Meghrae Murmu, belonged to the Murmu clan of the Santal Tribe in Santal Parganas in Jharkhand State in eastern India. He…
Covid Fear
P. A. Chacko SJ Let not Covid fear subdue us! Let us fight it together. Let us use preventive measures as much as possisble. Let us not infect others Let…