There are times in one’s life when something changes in you forever. The last few days have been that for me. It’s also the reason why I have not blogged too much, and why my last few posts have reflected on some form of genocide.
There will also be a post from me sometime in the [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 20, 2008
Things change
September 20, 2008
One more for Mangalore…
Among the Christian institutions that received threats yesterday was the St Aloysius College. The threats state that cadres from different states are ready to attack them, besides 80 suicide bombers.
When I visited Mangalore for a wedding in the family a couple of months ago, one of the monuments that moved me with its haunting, ethereal, [...]
September 16, 2008
In the name of God
There is something very disturbing about a destroyed image of Christ on a crucifix. This could be that the image itself is a mutilated one… So one is disturbed by the hate that would cause a mob to mutilate it further. (You know like breaking a man’s hands and legs while he’s still on the [...]
September 8, 2008
Being spiritual and not religious
As a child, a teenager and a young adult, I never thought too much about being Christian in India. I only thought about being Indian and very passionately about being Bangalorean. In fact, I thought so little about being Christian that my Orkut and Facebook religious profile told the world that I was “spiritual, not [...]
September 7, 2008
Hitler: The Second Coming
You know that the world is ready for the second coming of Hitler when an 18 something and a 20 something, sitting somewhere across the world in comfortable educated upper middle class India say…
Hitler was actually not such a bad man. He only hated the Jews.
Did the holocaust actually happen? We have never heard what [...]
