Cross Connections

A news story on untouchability among the Parsis may seem like an anachronism, but this is how the pallbearers in the community are trea...

Where is Richard Gere now, and the Dalai Lama? A Nepali Buddhist nun who was gang-raped will be stripped of her religious habit and thrown o...

'Law and order' sounds like a curious term because the law does not seem to have any order. The Supreme Court gets a 7-month itch ...

Now that we know Muslims can just do it, courtesy Junoon ’s Salman Ahmad, how are believers to manage abstinence? You forsake food, water an...

She is a blonde from Central America. Did she need to be stripped to her waist? As part of an armed gang of robbers, Alejandra Maria Torres ...

Irony could not get more amusing. Today is Eid al-adha . Pricey animals are just another means to flash money. Muslims sacrifice a goat (or ...

Dialled one? Do you expect to get beaten up for it, have your hair shaved off, and then be paraded through the streets? In Bhiwani, a villag...

'Drop in when you drop dead' was the line at the Undertaker’s outlet on my regular route. I imagined stone cold corpses walk in for ...