Positive Overtones

Returning Back to the Beginning  We on our part need to be collaborators with the Church. We can do so firstly by promoting equal rights for all and secondly, by standing up against male dominance and degradation of women. Though there are many cultures that promote male dominance over women, it is our mission to preach by the lives we live that a woman has an equal standing in society as compared to man. Their presence in the Church and in the world is needed no matter what way of life they have chosen. However, a caveat, while we work towards all this, let us remember that our mission to make the world understand the true worth of men and women: that they were both made in the image and likeness of God and that they are both equal in the eyes of God. In the creation story, woman is made as an equal of man – since they are both “created in the image and likeness of God.” But, from the time of the Fall, the approach towards women had changed. In the Jewish tradition women...

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini  Book Review The novel ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ which is a best seller tells the story of two Afghan women who learn to work together and support each other amidst the struggles they face in the war-torn Kabul. The novel is written by Khaled Hosseini who is himself an Afghan immigrant. The book is divided into four parts. In the first part of the book we see the early life of Mariam. Mariam is a young girl who is born in Herat out of an illegitimate relationship. Her mother is cast away, after the family of her lover finds out about the illegitimate child. Jalil is the father of Mariam and inspite of rejecting her mother and her, he comes to visit Mariam on a weekly basis. The stories that Jalil tells Mariam on his weekly visits are so captivating that she begins to believe him more than her mother. Nana, the name by which Mariam calls her mother, loves Mariam but does not show it explicitly. She constantly insults her daughter...