The court’s observation has drawn attention because it intersects with a major unresolved issue — the legal status of Dalits who convert to Christianity or Islam.
New Delhi: In a ruling with significant implications for caste and minority rights, the Allahabad High Court on February 10 observed that conversion or marriage does not alter a person’s caste status, reiterating that…
The community has been at the receiving end for the last 10 years. Since 2014, with the ascendancy of Narendra Modi as prime minister, there has been an alarming rise in the atrocities perpetrated against Christians and churches.
Dalit Christians along with other marginalised communities of India have been breathing a sigh of relief since Indian general election results were declared on June 4. Although Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is back…
By Valson Thampu The COVID-19 pandemic is tremulous with ironies. They should not be lost sight of. If they are to be reckoned, we must agree at the outset that events like pandemics, natural disasters and social upheavals, though random, or chance, events, are not devoid of any logic or meaning. Admittedly, what happens only […]
By Valson Thampu The COVID-19 pandemic is tremulous with ironies. They should not be lost sight of. If they are to be reckoned, we must agree at the outset that events like pandemics, natural disasters…
By Valson Thampu Crisis, we are told, denotes the outbreak of truth. Human beings choose, for the most part, to live in a world of make-believe. That is because they cannot stand too much of reality. Demagogues know this. So, they hard-sell dreams and delusions, which suffice so long as a spurious sort of normalcy […]
By Valson Thampu Crisis, we are told, denotes the outbreak of truth. Human beings choose, for the most part, to live in a world of make-believe. That is because they cannot stand too much of…
By Valson Thampu The Hindus are less hypocritical than we are at least in one respect. They have different gods for different castes. In Christianity, it is one-size-fits-all. Being monotheistic, we have only one God and so all Christians must do with the same God. But not all Christians are of equal status or worth, […]
By Valson Thampu The Hindus are less hypocritical than we are at least in one respect. They have different gods for different castes. In Christianity, it is one-size-fits-all. Being monotheistic, we have only one God…
By Valson Thampu Semitic religions are more focused on creation than the rest. It is central to the Christian idea of the world that God created it out of nothing. But creation as an idea is common to most religions. Understandably, they differ in scope and purpose. First, a general principle. How we explain the […]
By Valson Thampu Semitic religions are more focused on creation than the rest. It is central to the Christian idea of the world that God created it out of nothing. But creation as an idea…
By Valson Thampu There are times when I feel disappointed, indeed exasperated, with Christian Dalits, especially in Kerala. Perhaps they have not yet managed to break the mould of centuries-old Dalitness as yet. This disables them to respond adequately to situations of blatant injustice. The proof of a person’s sense of justice is not that […]
By Valson Thampu There are times when I feel disappointed, indeed exasperated, with Christian Dalits, especially in Kerala. Perhaps they have not yet managed to break the mould of centuries-old Dalitness as yet. This disables…
By Valson Thampu I am afraid the Indian Christian community is drifting towards a historical and existential crisis. The shape of that crisis can be read today from the status of Christian Dalits in mainstream Christianity. What is that status? Christian Dalits are second-class Christians. They are assigned a space somewhere in the margin. That all […]
By Valson Thampu I am afraid the Indian Christian community is drifting towards a historical and existential crisis. The shape of that crisis can be read today from the status of Christian Dalits in mainstream Christianity. …
By Valson Thampu There is an issue that continues to perplex me. Which Jesus are we worshipping? Which Jesus is the recipient of the worship that the church offers? My readers would remember that Jesus had something very radical to say about worship. I remind them, if they need to be reminded at all, of the […]
By Valson Thampu There is an issue that continues to perplex me. Which Jesus are we worshipping? Which Jesus is the recipient of the worship that the church offers? My readers would remember that Jesus had…
By Tejaswi Ravinder Hyderabad: After mass terror attacks in 2009, inter-ethnic marriages in north-western China’s Xinjiang have become very rare. In 2013, when 24-year-old Mawlan, born to Uyghur parents and a musician by profession, secretly married his girlfriend, Ma Jie, a Han, they attracted media’s attention. “I acted first and told them afterwards. They would never […]
By Tejaswi Ravinder Hyderabad: After mass terror attacks in 2009, inter-ethnic marriages in north-western China’s Xinjiang have become very rare. In 2013, when 24-year-old Mawlan, born to Uyghur parents and a musician by profession, secretly married…
