Latin Catholic Archbishop of Trivananthapuram, Dr Soosa Pakiam, recently suggested that seminaries and formation houses, the training centres for clergy, put the Constitution of India in the curricula syllabus so that the thousands who pass out to pastor the community have some knowledge of the building blocks of democracy in a complex and plural country.
The statement stirred up a small storm in the community grappling with more immediate issues of security and its place as one of the smallest religious minorities with a population a mere 2.3 per cent of India’s billion and a quarter, and that too static