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Sir — England, who are the favourites to lift the World Cup this time, got off to a flying start in their inaugural match against South Africa at The Oval on Thursday. The co-hosts of the tournament...

The political project of Hindutva is nothing less than an assault on Hinduism, but where the life-affirming religion has for millennia proved its resilience to external attacks, it is now revealing it...

Over two dozen Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists barged into a Christian prayer meeting in an Agra hotel on Tuesday and attacked the preachers with hockey sticks, alleging they were conv...

Have you heard of Jhulelal, the preferred god of the Sindhis? He’s almost exclusively worshipped by the community that hails from around the Indus river but little is known about him by most others....

Is the Brahman sending us a message?Lord Shiva, the destroyer of ignorance, has been fairly clear. Of the 12 Jyotirlinga temples, the standing committee of the divine government, 10 left humans to the...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a broadside against the Congress, accusing it of branding “peace-loving Hindus” as terrorists and insulting those who follow the religion. Launching...

We find the place easily, the mandir the Shwezedi monk told us about. The main gate of the temple is wide open and we walk in. As we enter, my eyes sting from the wood smoke that hangs over the place ...

A river is a rite of passage, a flow of narrative few men understand. It connects past and present, upstream and downstream, links creation myths to everyday history. A river is a composite of time in...

The smallest geographies can often conjure large, often lingering, patterns of politics. A crossroads in Sarajevo. A beer hall in Munich. A palace called Winter. A harbour called Pearl. A line called ...