WHY CHRISTMAS ?
WHY CHRISTMAS? I write these lines in genuine confusion. And I write these lines from a milieu that has already submerged itself in the avalanche of celebration. The pagan festival that marked the birth of Constantine twenty centuries ago has totally forgotten him and remembers the radical rabbi of Galilee who lived for 33 years and was later crucified for being unpleasant to the Jewish teachers of those times. They called Him Jesus of Nazareth and the people who follow Him were called Christians in Antioch not too late after His death. The story did not end there. The real story started there. Disciples and women who formed His close company soon found that His grave was empty and for forty days He was found talking and moving in the midst of them before He ascended to Heaven. These followers were native fishermen. They had left everything to follow Jesus who in their opinion had the Words of Life. These men went around the world, (India included) and carried the news about Jesu