Cross Connections

Should any person holding high rank in the government take the oath of office in the name of god, any god?  In secular India that boasts of ...

With cucumber pads on my eyes, my head uncovered, nothing to indicate that I was doing ibaadat , I lay down to pray. I do not know many pra...

I want to applaud Narendra Modi. Inadvertently, he has shown up the fake liberals for what they are. The Gujarat government decided to give ...

The maulvi says TV is haram. The sadhu says gambling is immoral. Baba Ramdev and Maulana Madani Under the skin they are the same, so ...

Pilgrims on the way Every year, in some part of the world, in some pilgrim sites, people die. Tents burned, landslides, stampedes. Yet, y...

I felt sad, yes sad, seeing this picture. What do these kids know about Muharram ? Does mindlessly beating their chests educate them about...

We talk about desecration in such linear terms. It is only the vile people who do it, the intolerant bunch. The liberal media is rarely pull...

A doomsday quick-fix prophet on TV last night was holding forth on how the solar eclipse would muck up our lives based on our zodiac signs. ...

Move over, Mr. B. The competition is now really stiff. Nothing compared to the ambassadorship of Uttar Pradesh. In the gubernatorial stakes,...

Houses get destroyed. A temple and mosque survive the landslide. What can I say? I am the faithless. Faithless in terms of organised religio...

I can hear the drums. A bunch of young people will form a human pyramid and break a clay pot filled with curd and lots of money. Gods don’t ...

Two bits of religious news and let us see the reactions… A Scottish art exhibition invited visitors to deface a copy of the Bible. The exhib...

She was a striptease artist, an exotic lap dancer titillating men in nightclubs across Milan. Today, she is a nun. Anna Nobili found her new...

Another nude portrait, another outcry. The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti forced artist Nitai Das to withdraw a nude portrait allegedly...

Hah… The political wing of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency which used to spy on politicians and rig elections has be...

There were big ads in the newspapers, hoardings on billboards. A bearded scrawny man was to give a lecture on Islam and something or the oth...

Not on… The Kerala government confirmed two Muslim police drivers were removed from BJP leader L K Advani’s convoy during his visit to ...