Kathmandu Nepal As faithful readers of this blog will know I have spent the last ten weeks in South Asia ndash Chennai Kolkata Pune Colombo and Jaffna in Sri Lanka See my previous entry nbsp and the links in it to the first three I am now completing ten days in the Himalayan country of Ne

nbsp Jaffna Srilanka I am near the end of my two weeks in Srilanka and post here my fourth blog from the very northern tip of this island - Ceylon as we used to call it - off the coast of India You can read the first second and third too While the rest of my ten-week travels in South Asia

Pune India I am at the end of more than two weeks here in Pune I resided during my stay at the Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth something like ldquo The School of Wisdom Light of Knowledge rdquo home to the Jesuit de Nobili College and Papal Seminary moved here from Kandy Srilanka soon after Indi

Pune India mdash I am a few days short of the time when I am planning to continue my series on my trip to India by writing a blog on my time here in Pune one of the intellectual centers of India But since I have been blessed with excellent internet connections here I have been able to browse

nbsp Pune India At the end of my first report on my 10-week trip to India I mentioned that I was on my way to Kolkata Calcutta and although I was there for only a brief four days it was a most interesting visit Kolkata as you will know was the capital of the British Raj in its early ye

Chennai India mdash As you may recall I am on sabbatical this year and from early January until the end of March I am traveling in India doing some writing visiting familiar places such as Chennai where I have lived many times and Kolkata Calcutta where I rsquo ve visited three times be

Cape Cod MA It rsquo s December 30 All of us I am sure are pondering the year past and looking ahead with varying degrees of apprehension to 2014 For me there is the added feature ndash fact apprehension ndash that January 1 marks the half-way point of my sabbatical Technically at lea

Cape Cod MA Almost since the time I started blogging here at In All Things I rsquo ve been working on a book which I rsquo ve mentioned to you on and off over the years Within the frame of what I usually write ndash theological comparative studies with special attention to Catholic and Hind

Cape Cod MA Like many of you I have had some time a bit fragmented in the past week to read Pope Francis rsquo apostolic exhortation ldquo The Joy of the Gospel rdquo Hectic days at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Baltimore nearly 10 000 in attendance and some t

Cape Cod Mass -- Like everyone else old enough to remember I am marking this week the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy The other day I stopped by the J F K Memorial in Hyannis see picture so near to where the Kennedys even now still have their summer home and spent so