India, April 13 -- It is a nice, warm, abiding myth, and was possibly true also in the first two decades of India's independence. The myth that the then-ruling Congress party and the Indian Christian ... Read More
India, April 6 -- A century-old project to define the Indian citizen as fundamentally Hindu, regardless of their current profession of faith, seems to be reaching fruition in the law books. The shift ... Read More
India, March 30 -- More than 20 years ago, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, then the Congress president, told this correspondent and Catholic priest Fr S Lourduswamy that hope for Dalit Christians getting the protec... Read More
India, March 16 -- Villagers from Lanjiberna in Odisha's Sundargarh district are waging a last-ditch struggle in the Supreme Court of India to stop corporate sabotage of Scheduled Area laws and tribal... Read More
India, March 9 -- Senior readers may remember film heroes and heroines in the 1950s and 1960s telling their respective parents that they would have a "Court Marriage" if they were not permitted to wed... Read More
India, March 2 -- Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil may have set a cat among the pigeons with his appeal to the government to declare the Christian community a Micro Minority, but a commis... Read More
India, Feb. 20 -- As they try to connect with advocacy groups in the United States and European Union headquarters, Indian religious minority activists are discovering the reach and power of the Rasht... Read More
India, Feb. 16 -- Gujarat was once India's laboratory of hate and communal targeted violence. "Pehle Isai, fir Kasai (First, Christians, then Muslims)," a pamphlet discovered in the aftermath of incid... Read More
India, Feb. 9 -- With defence budgets for both India and Pakistan now public, it is clear that the arms race in the subcontinent is intensifying at a pace not previously anticipated by international s... Read More
India, Feb. 2 -- Santa Claus was figuratively lynched in India during Christmas 2025. As many as 150 incidents of vandalism of statues, Christmas trees and shop decorations, attacks and intimidation o... Read More