The Permanent Pursuit of the Imperfect

Simhasth: Stage Set for Celestial Drama

Happier Is the Selfless

Building relationships beyond quid pro quo

Love and Language

Poet-saint Andal’s work proves that she regards the body a site of the sacred as much as the soul

A Relative Question of the Ascetic

Adi Shankaracharya and the idea of a sannyasi

A Portrait of Gokarna

Sun, sand and other nourishments for the senses and the spirit on Om Beach

The Intolerance Myth

Is India as wretched as it is being portrayed by a section of the intellectual class?

Calm After the Rage of Evil

‘Europe would need a common enemy to unite and the only one available is Islam.’ Is André Malraux’s prophecy coming true?

Trapped by Triple Talaq

A survey reveals that a huge majority of Muslim women in India want to see the end of the unilateral oral divorce and other such injustices of the religion’s personal laws

On the Kumbh Waterfront

Holy dip or drinking water—it should be easy for a government to choose