Stephen David
Where’s the reformer who will nail a thesis on the door of the Catholic Church?
After a blockbuster run in Tamil cinema, filmmaker Pa Ranjith is all set for Bollywood
Our ancient sages were so much in tune with Prakriti that they came to predict—and prepare—for the vagaries in nature
In a historic show of solidarity, a group of nuns in Kerala has forced the church and the state to finally act against a bishop who had allegedly raped one of them. V Shoba in Kochi listens to the sisters who dared
She lives in a cloistered world of silence and submission. Endurance is her supreme prayer. She is out there on the street today, demanding justice for the one who has allegedly been raped by a bishop. Pitted against a patriarchal church and an indifferent state, a nun’s life is a lone battle. And it all returns to her body
The transactional power of the church in the secular politics of Kerala makes the loneliness of the nun starker
The oldest surviving Sanskrit theatre tradition returns in its original long form