The New Year hasn’t dawned well for the Pope. As Pope Francis “greeted the public in St. Peter’s Square and was making his way to the Nativity scene at the centre of Vatican City, a woman held his hand to get him near her.
The “Father” got extremely pissed off and started slapping the woman’s hand to set himself free of her.
Swami Dhirendra Shastri called for a meat-free Navratri in Bengal. Parties answered by invoking Shakta tradition. A restricted rite, stripped of its disciplines, has become “culture”, and Bengal uses its first taste of political freedom in decades to flaunt the very decay that helped undo it.
Moscow saw a rare confluence. CIA Director Ratcliffe to warn Putin, Vatican Foreign Minister Gallagher to stop Ukraine war, Indian Foreign Minister with a special message from PM Modi. Meanwhile Russia has destroyed "90% Warehouses" in Ukraine.
