Religion

Take that, Rana

Editor - November 8, 2026

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...

Devi Sita saw no good in Ravan

Neena Rai - November 7, 2026

Immersed in grief, her face constantly wet with tears, Devi Sita sighs repeatedly and trembles like a lone doe surrounded by a pack of...

The trouble with a nicer Ravan

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi - November 3, 2026

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...

They carved statues too

Srikant Sekhar - October 22, 2026

The myth of a primitive West flatters Indians. It hides what prophetic monotheism destroyed, and what it can still destroy here.

The Bengali who eats meat during Durga Puja is no less a Hindu

A Shaw - October 20, 2026

Every Navratri, someone says it again: meat must not be eaten while the Devi is worshipped. It is said from katha stages, on television...

Blame the rapist, not the Goddess

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi - October 15, 2026

Every year as Navratri approaches, a familiar set of captions floods social media: "They worship goddesses but rape women." "Nine days of worship, 365...