The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch (Hyperion, 2008) A touching bestseller that sold 5 million copies. Randy Pausch was professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. The book is based on the last
This month, instead of our usual movie reviews, we present three short YouTube videos on Organ Donation. They are very well made and touch the heart. You are sure to find other videos too on
“Have a heart, India: With few donors, organ transplants at an abysmal 1 per cent,” was the frontline headline in The Sunday Standard on its front page on July 1st, 2018. It went on to
This inspiring first person account is the story of parish members who got involved to save a critically ill parishioner—and how the donor turned out to be a person from another country who wished to
August 9: International Day of Indigenous Peoples Indigenous people, also known as aboriginals, adivasis or natives, are the original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the
There are three kinds of financial statements: 1) Income and Expenditure Account, 2) Receipt and Payment Account and 3) Balance Sheet proper. All the three put together make up the audited statement of accounts called
The largest national gathering of major superiors in the world is the triennial Assembly of Major Superiors, organized by the Conference of Religious, India. The 2018 Assembly took place in May. Venue: SRM Institute of
This column started with the meaning of “spirituality,” followed by the four basic “models” or ways of understanding it. It then presented two models, namely, the communitarian model (as when we speak of Franciscan, Vincentian
The Vatican announced recently that Bl. Archbishop Oscar Romero will be canonized during the Synod of Bishops in October this year. Soon after he was beatified on 23 May 2015, this is what I wrote