Religion
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Watch: Man writes the Quran on a 500-metre-long scroll, working for 18 hours a day, in seven months
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Devotees participate in rath yatra festival festivities on Florida beach
Scroll Staff
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How India’s blind admiration for sages hurts our democracy
Sarveswar Sipoy
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Why the debate around the age of Aisha, the Prophet’s wife, is irrelevant
Nabeela Jamil
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‘Nireeswaran’ interrogates unquestioning belief through fiction, leaving it to readers to answer
Chitra Ahanthem
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Feeding divine guests and eating of children: Wendy Doniger on the horrors of hospitality in myths
Wendy Doniger
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‘The bell-eared demon’: When Swami Vivekananda warned how worship could become fanaticism
Swami Vivekananda
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‘My biggest strength is my love’: Muslim man’s house, shops razed after marriage to Hindu woman
Scroll Staff
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How the West discovered the Buddha through literature
Philip C Almond, The Conversation
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Why it is necessary to understand the development of life through evolution and not religion
Prosanta Chakrabarty
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Faiz’s verses have been dropped from Indian textbooks – but the power of his ideas will endure
Chapal Mehra
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The BJP’s ‘bulldozer justice’ targets oppressed communities – and has no legal basis
Mrinalini Ravindranath Mukul Raj Nikita Sonavane
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As politicians squabble over loudspeakers, an appeal for quiet on International Noise Awareness Day
Sumaira Abdulali
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How the bulldozer has destroyed any hope Muslims might have in India’s institutions
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
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Why the toxic beats of ‘Disc Jockey Hindutva’ are so dangerous for India
Brahma Prakash
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How judge Syed Mahmood, known for dissent under the British Raj, shaped an interfaith debate
Mohammad Nasir Samreen Ahmed
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How ‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’ gives a compelling Buddhist perspective on death
Pema Düddul, The Conversation
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From fasting to bullying: How Hindu supremacists are using Navratri to target Muslims
Arunabh Saikia
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Exploited as foot soldiers: How Muslims are getting crushed by Bengal’s political violence
Adil Hossain
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Roza, Ramadan, Ramzan: There is more to the month of fasting than how it is spelled
Rizwan Ahmad