Opinion

Enhancing life Skills & effective communication for Teachers

Opinion | Articles | Sunny Jacob SJ |

“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 |

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 |

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 |

Rev. Fr. MC John

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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.....

Is Bollywood Promoting Rape and Violence?

Opinion | People's Edit | G.L. Khing |

I write this Article to depict some of the reel life of Bollywood in contrast to the real life of the Indian society concerning the notion of rape and violence. The conservative Indian social life was well appreciated despite some evil practices that exis.....

Naming a Life: How Names are Chosen during Baptisms

Opinion | People's Edit | Raile Rocky Ziipao |

Giving a name to the newborn child in a family is an important event and a marker of identity. Among the Catholic family, often a child is named after a saint or given a biblical name during baptism. Can a child grow up to be a good Catholic/Christian wit.....

The Light of Day, Finally!

Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi |

It is said that when something is destined to take place, nothing can stop it from happening. The North East Catholic Research Forum (NECARF) was perhaps also destined to take birth because there was never a serious talk or plan to form such an organisati.....