The Pew Research Center survey has also captured the anxieties felt by the Muslim minorities who “take pride in being Indian” but also acknowledge that communal tensions have been intentionally stoked to cause segregation.

European governments’ anti-radicalisation policies may threaten the relationship between the citizen and the state

Anantanand Rambachan writes: I was challenged by the Bishop’s denunciation to recognise that he encountered Hinduism in ways radically different from my own experience.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Fundamentalists, even as they create walls between communities, recognise that South Asia has a connected destiny: They bank on it to achieve their ends

In the journey of human civilisation, cosmologies came to represent the distilled wisdom of humankind, accumulated over millennia in its quest for survival in the face of the adversities of nature

In the U.S., there seems to be an inverse relation between despair deaths and religiosity

Though they both attempt to explain the world, religion and science are essentially opposites. Science relies on testable empirical evidence, while religion is subjective, meaning any “evidence” exists in our own minds and the writings of our ancestors —…

Having defined secularism as poly-religiosity rather than state neutrality toward religions, the Indian polity finds itself shuttling between extremes.

The report is based on conceptual issues relating to human rights, minorities, concept of religious freedom and culture dilemma of religious minorities, cause of religious differences and more.

 Down To Earth speaks to Mariya Taher, the co-founder and United States executive director of non-profit Sahiyo on Female Genital Mutilation in India

The community needs to question how some religious bodies, in the name of protecting an unreformed personal law, continue to issue blinkered advisories to establish their authority

The case of Dalit Muslims and Christians for being qualified as Scheduled Caste is obfuscated by a host of denials or fallacious arguments offered by their religious elites and by successive

According to Ambedkar, Buddhism upholds humanism, individual freedom, and a peaceful coexistence, and therefore, is suitable for the modern times.