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Ode to Triple Talaq

Madhavankutty Pillai

Is it the end of a medieval practice?

Totem and Triumphalism

Today we do not know if we are eating food, or if the food we eat is, in fact, eating us

Not Cow, But Bull Slaughter

It is the males of the species that are threatened

Battle for the Headscarf

One woman’s defiance of Turkey’s secularist dress code

Beauty of the Moment

The violence of the subcontinent echoes in Nadeem Aslam’s new novel

Aurangzeb: Not an Anti-Hindu Despot

Redeeming Aurangzeb from colonial historians

The Power of a Woman’s Spirit

Man’s strength, the muscular traction, is a pale and paltry thing in comparison

The Fall of Man in the Age of Anger

What makes this text an indispensible addition to the canon of intellectual histories is not just the urgency of its argument but the delightful march-past of writers

The Myth of Islamic Exceptionalism

The struggles and failures of liberalism are not religion-specific

What’s the Matter with Mind?

A meditation on the nine-gated city and noble thoughts

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