religion

New Year 2019 Issue: Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

Gods, princes and women who dared

Being a Punjabi

Siddharth Singh

Marked by identity politics

The Cult of Draupadi

V Shoba

In praise of an inclusive goddess

Landmarks of Confession

Ranjit Hoskote

India’s traditional architecture made amends for its violations of nature

Playing with God

Siddharth Singh

The use of Game Theory to better understand divine beings

Tyranny of the Stubborn Minority

Rajeev Srinivasan

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

The Akbari Synthesis and India’s Plurality

Ranjit Hoskote

What Sikandra tells us

It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India

Can India and China take an epic journey to the future?

Stephen Owen and Sheldon Pollock

Sorting out Babel

Sabarimala: Among the Believers

V Shoba

Kerala’s most visited temple has become a war zone for reformists and traditionalists following the Supreme Court verdict allowing young entry to the shrine