religion

Faith and Fury in Mangaluru

V Shoba

Mangaluru in southern Karnataka is one of the strongholds of Hindutva’s militant fringe. As Assembly elections loom, the cause celebre is love jihad

Why Should a Hindu Be Good?

Shashi Tharoor

Divinity of the soul and politics of the body

Wheel of Time

Ashwin Sanghi

Who keeps Kalachakra in the modern world?

Hindutva and History

Shashi Tharoor

The struggle for a nationalist halo

Post Independence, in our collective zeal to present a politically correct version of history, we have ensured that Delhi’s and north India’s Hindu heritage remains hostage to a mix of distortions and apathy

The Hindu Inflexion

Swapan Dasgupta

The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today

Editor’s Note: Demolition-Reclamation-Reinvention

S Prasannarajan

A temple in Modi’s India, if his words are any indication, cannot afford to be incompatible with the spirit of modernisation he has unleashed

Mumbai Notebook

Anil Dharker

AC Grayling’s talk on God at the Mumbai International Literary Festival

Mark Tully: The Witness

Ullekh NP

Mark Tully, who reported it for the world from ground zero, watched some leaders asking the police to stay away and Sangh volunteers breaching police cordons with ease. Then they began to climb up the domes of the mosque and started hacking away at the mortar

Kameshwar Chaupal: The First Kar Sevak

Rahul Pandita

Kameshwar Chaupal, now 61, recounts the exact moment he was called onto the stage in Ayodhya with Sangh Parivar stalwarts and told that he would lay the first brick at the construction site of the proposed Rama temple