‘I take painkillers after each trip’: The health travails of Sabarimala’s dolly bearers

Many of the men who carry devotees to the Kerala temple in palanquins suffer from bone-related diseases.

TA Ameerudheen

· Dec 01, 2018 · 11:30 am

Centre clears Kartarpur corridor project to give Sikh pilgrims easy passage to gurdwara in Pakistan

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will perform a groundbreaking ceremony on November 28.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 22, 2018 · 01:52 pm

Hindutva organisations are using an incantation to Ayyappa as a political slogan at Sabarimala

Ayyappa devotees are concerned that the pilgrimage to the shrine will never be peaceful again.

TA Ameerudheen

· Nov 12, 2018 · 07:30 am

Twist in Sabarimala tale: Kerala’s Mala Araya Adivasi tribe claims ownership of the hill shrine

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has admitted that members of the tribe used to conduct the main ritual at Sabarimala decades ago.

TA Ameerudheen

· Nov 04, 2018 · 10:30 am

Orthodox Church is seeing the biggest split in 1,000 years and Ukraine has something to do with it

Ukrainian nationalism – and a president on the rocks – has sparked a religious crisis.

Alexander Titov, The Conversation

· Oct 27, 2018 · 11:30 pm

In Sabarimala violence, a flashback to the RSS 1982 agitation to stop a church from being built

That movement had helped the Sangh grow in Kerala. The BJP now hopes to gain politically from the current protests.

TA Ameerudheen

· Oct 18, 2018 · 09:00 am

How did Jainism spread in South India? A small town in Tamil Nadu holds the answer

For the marginalised Tamil Jain community, Kazhugumalai is of great religious significance.

Mahima A. Jain

· Oct 17, 2018 · 11:30 am

‘Is there any woman on this bus?’ As Sabarimala opens to all women, mobs guard its gates

On Tuesday, policemen did not do anything to stop people stopping cars and buses enroute to Sabarimala to check if they had any women passengers.

TA Ameerudheen

· Oct 17, 2018 · 06:30 am

‘It is an upper-caste protest’: Ezhava outfit in Kerala denounces RSS plans for Sabarimala stir

Community leader’s refusal to join protest could upset Sangh’s bid to cash in on dissatisfaction over Supreme Court order allowing women to enter the shrine.

TA Ameerudheen

· Oct 10, 2018 · 07:30 am

Women priests at this Kerala ashram hope Sabarimala verdict will bust the myth of menstrual impurity

Menstruation ‘isn’t an issue for devotees who offer themselves to God’, say the priests of the Ekalavya Ashram.

TA Ameerudheen

· Oct 08, 2018 · 07:30 am

West Bengal: Trinamool Congress asks Muslims not to display weapons during Muharram processions

State BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said the request was a ‘moral victory’ for the saffron party.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 14, 2018 · 11:56 am

‘We’re going back to the essence of Islam’: The rise of women’s mosques in US and Europe

From Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a handful of mosques cater to Muslim women who want their own place of worship.

Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Sep 13, 2018 · 11:30 pm