Dashain was approaching. My mind was wondering what I should do during the vacation. A mobile buzzed on my office desk. I picked it up and wished the caller good day. The caller on the other side was Fr. Jiju. He inquired if I had any plan for the Dashain holidays and whether I was …
By Fr. Roy Sebastian, S.J. Nepal Jesuit Social Institute [NJSI] is starting the project of Remote School Education Improvement Program (as continuation of earthquake intervention moving from emergency to development.) This will also be the fore runner of Fe Y Algeria Nepal. The project has started with the selection of 20 Government schools, that are …
Capernaum Have you seen it, Capernaum*? I saw it, last night, before I nuzzled in. It vampire-d me. Capernaum: a world of sin where lives are smeared in macabre tales of dread, death. There is no birth here; only regurgitation of distress. With no name and no day to remember children are disgorged …
By Fr. Ayar Kujur S.J. It was time for me to leave Tipling for Pokhara. When my community in Tipling knew that I had to be in quarantine on arriving in Pokhara, they teased me saying that my transfer was a “moving from freedom to captivity.” Frankly, I was not looking forward to experiencing …
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A Poem by Fr. Jomon Jose S.J. You Are Never Alone She came… not a windhover, but a sparrow into my locked, blocked room; bolted, where food is served outside the sealed door pushed through with a sanitized stick. Sick- life tested, caged, and crushed by the virus I caught her… peeping through the sill …