Religion Take that, Rana
Rana Ayyub, an accused in a September 2021 money-laundering case and a Washington Post columnist, wrote this after Abdul El-Sayed became the first Muslim elected...
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Religion Devi Sita saw no good in Ravan
Immersed in grief, her face constantly wet with tears, Devi Sita sighs repeatedly and trembles like a lone doe surrounded by a pack of wild...
Religion The trouble with a nicer Ravan
At the Los Angeles premiere of Ramayana on 27 October, Sai Pallavi, who plays Devi Sita in Nitesh Tiwari’s film, was asked what she hoped...
Religion They carved statues too
The myth of a primitive West flatters Indians. It hides what prophetic monotheism destroyed, and what it can still destroy here.
Religion The Bengali who eats meat during Durga Puja is no less a Hindu
Every Navratri, someone says it again: meat must not be eaten while the Devi is worshipped. It is said from katha stages, on television panels...
Religion Blame the rapist, not the Goddess
Every year as Navratri approaches, a familiar set of captions floods social media: “They worship goddesses but rape women.” “Nine days of worship, 365 days...
Religion Behind sacred walls
Three decades of deaths and expulsions, and a Church that still answers only to itself
Religion At four, Bengal wakes to celebrate the cosmic war
For three centuries, many have tried to own Durga Puja. None has.
Religion The verses no one will quote about the flydubai attack
So, it’s out in public now that the co-pilot who attacked Captain Smit Machchhar with an emergency crash axe on flydubai flight FZ1073 is Hamam...
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....
