Pass that chillum: Why is pot-smoking so common at Sufi shrines and why is it frowned upon?

Hammad Khan

· Jun 22, 2018 · 03:30 pm

‘Religion and sport cannot be mixed’: Chess player Soumya explains decision to boycott Iran event

Scroll Staff

· Jun 13, 2018 · 05:53 pm

Pakistan’s attempts to secularise qawwali are unnecessary – it has always been pluralistic

Hammad Khan

· Jun 07, 2018 · 01:30 pm

The TM Krishna column: Does it matter if Lingayatism is not philosophically distinct from Hinduism?

TM Krishna

· May 07, 2018 · 08:00 am

The Catholic Church once reinvented itself after a crisis. Is it time to do so again?

James Chappel, Aeon

· May 04, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Another side of the Wild Wild Country: What I learnt from my research at Oregon’s Rajneeshpuram

Marion Goldman, The Conversation

· May 02, 2018 · 08:30 pm

What MM Kalburgi’s writings on the origin of the Lingayats tell us about their demands

Manu V. Devadevan

· Apr 28, 2018 · 01:30 pm

In Ghana, mosques have been asked to use text or WhatsApp messages for call to prayer

Isaac Kaledzi, Deutsche Welle

· Apr 26, 2018 · 09:30 pm

An anti-caste rationalist, Basava is being appropriated by those whose ideals are opposed to his

Githa Hariharan

· Apr 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

Why every Sufi master is in some ways a Freudian psychotherapist

Omnia El Shakry, Aeon

· Apr 23, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Photos: When two 19th-century Sinhalese Buddhist monks travelled to England to join the Church

Malini Roy

· Apr 20, 2018 · 09:30 pm

‘I believe because it is absurd’: How Christianity’s first meme came to be

Peter Harrison, Aeon

· Apr 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm

In the India of today, would we still celebrate inter-community marriages like they did in 1996?

Dilip D’Souza

· Apr 15, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ isn’t just a poem about man and god. It was the first ‘scientific epic’

Ed Simon Ed Simon, Aeon

· Apr 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Kerala clarifies that education minister’s claim on students’ caste was based on a technical error

Scroll Staff

· Apr 01, 2018 · 03:27 pm

Veerashaiva group in Karnataka seeks religious minority status for entire sect, not just Lingayats

Scroll Staff

· Mar 24, 2018 · 10:28 am

With politics of demonisation on the rise, India must keep a data record of hate crimes

Likhita Banerji

· Mar 22, 2018 · 08:00 am

Video: Why has the Karnataka government given a separate religion status to the Lingayat community?

Smitha Nair

· Mar 20, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘He who created god is a fool’: Periyar believed religion and rationality are complete opposites

MSS Pandian

· Mar 12, 2018 · 08:30 am

Kerala Police warn temple of action after minister criticises it for planning human blood ritual

Scroll Staff

· Mar 07, 2018 · 07:24 pm