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Gandhi, the Father

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

A shared vein of political reflection makes the letters to his son Devadas special

A Permanent Scattering

Nandini Nair

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie mourns the death of her father

City and Village

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

Short stories where the believable and unbelievable co-exist

Sex and the Church: Sins of the Fathers

Ullekh NP

Charges levelled against four priests for using confessions to blackmail and rape a woman shake up the Orthodox Syrian Church in Kerala and bring clerical abuse to the fore again

The Parable of a True Muslim

Mahtab Alam

Through candid and spirited letters to his sons, a father addresses the issues that haunt Islam today

Sex and the Catholic Church: Sins of the Father

Shahina KK

Another case of sexual assault rocks the Catholic Church in Kerala

Fathers, Brothers and Other Demons

Neha Dixit

Priya was raped by her father and brother for nine years—and her mother knew all along—till she saw on television the protests against the 16 December gang-rape