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Buddhism

Anyone for the Chinese Ganesha?

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

The struggle is less against those who threaten a rock here and a waterfall there than with those who threaten the idea of India

Rahul Sankrityayan: Our Kind of Seeker

Manuscript hunter Rahul Sankrityayan was a nationalist at home in the world

Faith and Nationalism

The revival of Buddhism in Mongolia

Curse of the Caricature

Were Indian cartoonists casteist on Ambedkar?

Tyranny of the Stubborn Minority

A Left turn on Sabarimala is an assault on the rights of indigenous people

Waiting for the Karmapa

The second-most important Tibetan spiritual leader went to the US last year. Will he ever return to India?

Limits of Non-Violence

A pause in the glorious past

Enlightenment in the Gobi Desert

Amidst the India-China standoff elsewhere, art unites the two countries on the Silk Road. Nanditha Krishna looks at the Grottoes of a Thousand Buddhas to realise how civilisation is a unifying force even in the time of adversity

Speak, Memory

When half-remembered stories from the past become shadowy foundations of the present

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