An excerpt from Vikram Kapur's article "When Society Failed the Artist" today at The Hindu, on the recent...

There wasn’t a dearth of death in Benares; as one walked or drove on its streets, small groups of...

We've been a giant fan of BibliOdyssey, a site of printed treasures curated by Peacay (or...

28 December 2005 There’s an elephant-sized religion story behind this short news item from The Times of India, which...

The sleeping giant — err, make that mid-sized man; no, make it “herd of cats” — responds to the...

Gods of Nationalism Kalyan Singh, leader of the Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), today deposed before theLiberhan Commission, a...

Doug Grow, of The Minneapolis Star Tribune, reports on the tempest-in-a-teapot in central Minnesota’s Renville County, after Texas-transplant Rick Blauvelt...

Everyone likes a winner: Bush has been using images of the Iraqi soccer team in his advertising and inserting...

News of the Weird (press releases): on Sept 12, 2004, in Washington, D.C., the National Council of Churches will...

“There was a cartoon a few weeks ago, I forget where, and there was a drawing of someone giving...