Opinion
Catholic Institutes: Need for Fine-tuning some Areas of Concern
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 14-Dec-2020
While setting foot on the soils of different states of North-East India (then districts of the state of Assam), pioneer Catholic Missionaries encountered several hurdles. People and institutions, uncomfortable with the unfamiliar Catholic presence in the .....
Catholic Church in Meghalaya: Foundation and Growth
Opinion | Articles | David R. Syiemlieh | 14-Dec-2020
Catholics missionaries were the first among the Christian Missions to have entered the North East region. Their attention through the 18th and early 19th centuries was the pastoral care of three Portuguese settlements of Rangamati, located on the easternm.....
Woman and Child
Opinion | Articles | Desmond L. Kharmawphlang | 14-Dec-2020
The trudge from her hovel to the corner by the bus-stop would be covered in the time it took her to have her first mouthful of betel nut of the day, about say, 10 minutes. With her bag of bidis and cigarettes, plastic jars of shaved and pieced betel nuts .....
Enhancing life Skills & effective communication for Teachers
Opinion | Articles | Sunny Jacob SJ | 14-Dec-2020
“Life skills is a term used to describe a set of basic skills acquired through learning and/or direct life experience that enable individuals and groups to effectively handle issues and problems commonly encountered in daily life” In other words, Life Ski.....
Entrepreneurs: The Wealthy Unemployed
Opinion | People's Edit | Kh.Siile Anthony | 14-Dec-2020
An entrepreneur is a person who can take calculative risks with innovative ideas for profit. To be an entrepreneur is a dream that many professionals aspire, but those with real guts achieve it. Getting entrepreneurship ideas is not a hard thing but to co.....
Hermeneutics of Love, and its Intriguing Nuances
Opinion | People's Edit | Victor Ferrao | 14-Dec-2020
We love our life and we are trying hard to preserve it against the novel coronavirus. Our life is no stranger to death but when it comes to pandemic deaths becoming omnipresent, we have to fight for life. This is why we try to police the virus and prese.....
He called it a Day finally
Opinion | People's Edit | Khansu Vialo Zingkhai | 14-Dec-2020
He called it a day on the 18th of November 2020, in the Archdiocese of Imphal, Manipur, a place he had chosen as his turf to be a Pencil in the hands of God, so that his Creator could write through him. That was Rev. Fr. MC John, born on 8th February 1940.....
Prowling Cybercriminals eyeing your Personal details
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 15-Nov-2020
With Covid-19 pandemic virtually pinning the world down to a grinding halt, Cybercriminals are on prowl, targeting beleaguered and hapless public forced into lockdowns. Their footprints are even more profound in India where level of ignorance amongst inte.....
Being Aatmanirbar and the Demand and Supply sides of our Economy
Opinion | Articles | Victor Ferrao | 15-Nov-2020
Indian economy was already struggling before being hit by the global pandemic. Like every other country, India is fighting its war against covid-19. Social distancing, use of masks and sanitizers have become the new normal for us all. Severe lockdown im.....
Brief History of the Catholic Missionaries in Manipur
Opinion | Articles | Irene Salam | 15-Nov-2020
The Tangkhul Nagas were the early Christians in Manipur since Rev. William Pettigrew first landed in Ukhrul after he was disallowed spaced in the valley. By 1946 however, there were confusions due to emergence of the Revival and the Seventh Day Adventist .....
Contributions of the Catholic Church towards Education in the Brahmaputra Valley
Opinion | Articles | Luke Daimari | 15-Nov-2020
Introduction The credit for introduction and growth of a regular system of education in India goes to the British. In 1781, the East India Company for the first time set up a Madrassa at Calcutta and later opened similar institutions for the Hindus at.....
Our Culture and the Gospel Encounter
Opinion | People's Edit | Joseph M Thohrii | 15-Nov-2020
Introduction Since early human civilisations, there has always been feeling of awe towards the supernatural being, and human beings had always been curious and interested to understand this phenomenon and wanted to relate life to this reality or being. I.....
‘Conversion’ Stories based on False Premise
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 14-Oct-2020
Sometime back, my attention was drawn by a Face Book post written by a Hindu friend which read, “I had great respect for Mother Teresa for her humanitarian services, until I came to know that she was doing all that with the objective of converting.” It w.....
Culture and Social Values
Opinion | Articles | Desmond L. Kharmawphlang | 14-Oct-2020
The underlined fundamental challenge facing every society is to create political, economic and social situations and systems that promote peace, human welfare and the sustainability of the environment upon which life depends. To even begin to understand a.....
India’s Tryst with Elementary Education
Opinion | Articles | Khansu Vialo Zingkhai | 14-Oct-2020
Every year parents in India spend fortunes for the education of their children irrespective of their economic status, despite constitutional provision for free and compulsory education up to the age of 14. Following the 86th Constitutional amendment in 20.....