religion

The Sordid Tale of a Godman: The Cult and the Crime

Ullekh NP

The sordid tale of a godman divested of his halo by the law and the question of how he acquired it

Look Who Wants Bloodshed

PR Ramesh

Responses to the Dera violence bring out liberal duplicity

‘We musicians sit on the high horse of religiosity,’ says TM Krishna

V Shoba

Open conversation with TM Krishna, Carnatic vocalist and writer

Freedom Issue 2017: Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

India at 70 is feeling what it means to be free

Punjab: Seeds of Secession

Siddharth Singh

Punjab highlights the disasters that can arise when political unscrupulousness is mixed with religious fervour

Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown

Arshia Sattar

From the karmic to the dharmic

Among the Good Believers

Madhavankutty Pillai

It may be a world ravaged by religious fury but several secular scientific studies show that faith makes people compassionate and socially responsible

Vishwa Adluri: ‘We have become so used to Hindu self-effacement that we now view Hindus as being assertive’

Rahul Pandita

Open conversation with Vishwa Adluri, Indologist and philosopher

Enlightenment in the Gobi Desert

Nanditha Krishna

Amidst the India-China standoff elsewhere, art unites the two countries on the Silk Road. Nanditha Krishna looks at the Grottoes of a Thousand Buddhas to realise how civilisation is a unifying force even in the time of adversity