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Mahatma Phule’s Vision of Balirajya and it’s Significance for Church and Society

by TRACICMS July 2, 2021July 2, 20214 Comments

Introduction Peshwa Brahmin rule was the most cruel rule in Pune, India where the Peshwa kings implemented the Law of Manu in full effect with severe implications on the ‘Untouchable person’. In Mughal period, Vedic Brahmins could not only protect their existence but got to deepen its roots and on the other side Buddhism was …

People of Privilege

by TRACIBlog, CMS June 11, 2021June 23, 2021No Comments

Dr. Shantanu Dutta According to a report citing the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, 97 percent of Indians have been left poorer to a greater or lesser degree post Covid[1]. That is most of the Indian population if the estimates are even reasonably accurate. Perhaps some of those reading this are part of this statistic. …

Even if it may not Passover

by TRACIBlog, CMS May 28, 2021May 30, 2021No Comments

The onslaught of the pandemic that began almost fourteen months back has created havoc hitherto unknown to this generation. The lockdown and the ensuing migration of the poor was heartrending and insensitive. Without a relief in sight, the common people were left to fend for themselves and for their loved ones. Today, situations are even …

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When the Angel of Death Comes Knocking

by TRACIBlog, CMS May 28, 2021May 30, 2021No Comments

The Covid-19 pandemic has given rise to innumerable questions. One of the questions among Christians is theological: why has it ravaged the community of faith? In other words, why are followers of Jesus Christ not spared from the sufferings of this terrible pandemic? It’s a question that sounds rather exclusive, selfish and insensitive. But it …

Politics Behind the Apolitical Farm Laws

by TRACICMS April 25, 2021April 25, 2021No Comments

Introduction The Government’s move to bring in three ordinances on Farm Laws in Parliament and later getting them formulated into Acts in September 2020 has become a bone of contention for both the Government and farmers. The move lacked wide consultation with the main stakeholders like farmers, implementing states and political consensus, leading to the …

Unbearable lightness of Big Data: Societal Impact Of Algorithms And How Big Companies Harvest Data, And Claim Private Human Experience As Commodities And Products

by TRACICMS February 7, 2021February 7, 2021No Comments

There is a high probability you had agreed to a set of terms and conditions that you never read while downloading an app this month. I recently did, with a clear knowledge, that whatever I signed up is watching me. A virtual panopticon in motion only that you sometimes are oblivious to its existence. The …

Covid-19 Pandemic: Causes, Complexities and Consequences

by TRACIBlog January 29, 2021June 2, 2021No Comments

Given momentous disarray to our individual and collective life due to COVID=19, it is worth documenting and examining the causes of the pandemic, its effect, the responses to the virus and the ramifications of the responses. Inquiries into these issues keeping in mind the perspective provided above and an analysis that is shaped by Christian …

THE PROMISE & POSSIBILITY OF SOCIAL ROLE VALORIZATION

by TRACIBlog January 15, 2021June 2, 2021No Comments

The Messiah, the Kingdom and Living in Current Times

by TRACICMS December 16, 2020January 9, 2021No Comments

Rev. C B Samuel 1.0 Introduction The present pandemic has not only taken hold of our fears but also of our imaginations!! A welcome development is the increase in social media presence even by groups that earlier shunned it as destructive and counter-productive. Recently I read about new initiatives and alternate entrepreneurial drives that …

Understanding Social Devaluation and Wounding Through Caste and Gender

by TRACICMS December 3, 2020December 28, 2020No Comments

Raaj Mondol The shocking incident of rape and strangulation of a 19 year young Dalit woman in a paddy field in a village of Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh on September 14,2020, her subsequent death in Safdarjang hospital, New Delhi on September 29th and a hurried cremation in the village field in the early hours …