religion

In the Name of Gods

Nanditha Krishna

Muslim iconoclasm and the Hindu response

Sculptural Fictions

Ranjit Hoskote

A meditation on Mahabalipuram

Fasting and Feasting

Dr Ambrish Mithal

Can religion and diabetes go together?

The Politics of Desire

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

A seductive narrative of sex and religion

The Cult of Hanuman

Kaveree Bamzai

Political masculinity gets a divine mascot

Sabyn Javeri: Inside the Veil

Shikha Kumar

The Pakistani author Sabyn Javeri talks about the politics of the hijab and the role of writers in divided societies in a conversation with Shikha Kumar

The Force That Drives Us

Lakshmi Bayi

Love is one of the most important links of society

The Travels of a Deity

Ranjit Hoskote

How a Krishna sect in Rajasthan bridges multiple divides

The Foreigner’s Home

Toni Morrison

To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely?