Books Amitav Ghosh’s sweeper-woman doesn’t need rescuing
In Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, Elijah Farley visits D. D. Cunningham’s laboratory in Calcutta. When Lutchman takes unusually long to return with a slide,...
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Books The forgotten diary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee
This forgotten diary illuminates our understanding of the pre-independence past and makes us ponder the arenas of nationhood and religion. The diary titled ‘Leaves from...
Religion How India celebrates menstruation
Once every year, at Kamakhya, one of the most profound celebrations of womanhood unfolds. The doors of the temple close. Not because of the disaster....
Religion If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women?
If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women? I am sure most of us have come across this line at some...
Books How did the Muslims justify the destruction of Hindu temples
In his celebrated historical work Kitab al-Yamini, Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbarul-Utbi, who served as the secretary to Mahmud of Ghazni, provides a...
Religion EXCLUSIVEThe truth about St Xavier that we must know
There are over 230 educational institutions if no less in the name of St Francis Xavier, popularly known as St Xavier, across India. Xavier is...
History The acknowledgement
Muslim testimonies tell how and why they destroyed Hindu temples
Books It’s not easy to be Hindu in Bangladesh
Purnima Rani Shil, a 12-year-old Hindu girl, was raped on 8 October 2001. Her fault? That as the polling agent of the Awami League in...
Books Your gateway to revisiting oral traditions
Reimagining the Myths of Himalayan Birds
