Author: Albertina Almeida

By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA

Questioning the meaning of justice and what sense it makes happens every day, based on ordinary people’s lived experiences of the justice system. The Judgement on the Ayodhya issue has only brought the issue in sharp limelight. The concluding words in a book titled Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do by Michael J. Sandel are reverberating in my mind, “A politics of moral engagement, is not only a more inspiring ideal than a politics of avoidance. It is also a more promising basis for a just society.” (more…)

By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA

Of late, all kinds of ‘Daddies’ are in the news. I want to state here that I had a loving and caring father, who has been with me through all the times that I have endured. This caring did not mean pampering and he did not fail to reprimand when it was called for. I wouldn’t have exchanged him for anything in the world. He was a father who taught me the value of hard work and not to yield to any pressures. He would recount anecdotes with such gusto that even when he repeated them, one still listened as if to new stories. He wasn’t tall, dark and handsome. He didn’t flaunt his hairy chest. He and my mother cooked jointly. Not that he was without his faults, but this is an attempt to highlight certain positive traits that are not usually attributed to men. (more…)