Religion

Modern day Odisha is known to be the 'epicenter'...

The Punjab Govt. has recently allowed women to offer Kirtan inside the Golden temple. Despite no religious precedent which decreed excluding them in the first place, where do women stand in Sikhism? How do cultural norms, gender inequality, caste privilege, and religion intersect?

The Institute of National Integration has trained over 7,000 religious teachers since 1985

Students and members of ABVP have protested against his appointment in the Sanskrit department

The Supreme Court last week, by 3:2 majority, decided...

ASI excavations: Pix by Prof Supriya VarmaA top-notch archeologist,...

MHA claims Aatish Taseer attempted to “conceal information” that his father was of Pakistani origin

Since the overthrow of the ‘communist devils’ in Afghanistan in April 1992, first the Mujahedeens and then the Talebans have put ‘Islam’ in practice in Afghanistan.  For hundreds of thousands of ordinary Afghanis, women in particular, this has meant an unending nightmare of terror and trauma wrote Teesta Setalvad in 1998

​​​​​​​Its website tells you how the Taleban are Allah’s  own gift to Afghanistan. Independent reports of realities on the ground tell a very different story

If women have been the worst hit by the Islam sought to be imposed on Afghanis, the most determined resistance to the fanatics has also come from an organisation of women — RAWA