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BOOK EXCERPT * The New India, like the old one, is a land of miracles. Western visitors admired Indians for walking on water and the rope-trick. Now, they love its Nonbiological B ...
Religious art galleries around the world showcase the same bewildering scenes: massive elephants balanced on tiny mice, ...
The water, scooped up from the holy river Ganges, is destined for the pilgrims’ local temples. And the precious cargo must be ...
A man in Rajasthan’s Sikar district has accused a school teacher of trying to force his granddaughter, a Class 6 student, for religious conversion, police said on Thursay. However, the school director ...
A man was arrested here on Wednesday for allegedly posting objectionable remarks about Hindu deities on social media, a police official said. The accused was identified as Rohit Jadav, a resident of ...
Meera Nanda analyses how Hindutva and postcolonial theory undermine rationalism and science, with its effects showing on ...
Former Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, a veteran communist and freedom fighter, passed away at 101 in ...
The Thirty-three gods, or Tridasha, is a pantheon of Hindu deities from the Samhitas, which are the oldest layer of text in ...
This tribute concert for late Tamil lyricist Na Muthukumar celebrated his work through songs by Yuvan Shankar Raja, GV ...
Opinion
Brushed out
As democracy’s upholders, we had a duty to denounce the hate campaigns against Maqbool Fida Husain, reject those who fuelled them, and call out those who orchestrated them ...
My trip around the world included some time in the footsteps of St. Francis Xavier, and a poignant moment at his tomb in Goa.
In the former Danish outpost of Tranquebar, dining without cutlery offers a compelling perspective on the true meaning of ...