Syncretic Tales

Video: Meet Abdul Yassin, Mumbai's only engraver of Jewish tombstones

People decide what secularism is, not governments.

Scroll Staff
· Feb 27, 2017 · 05:00 pm
Why Mumbai police detectives are lining up at the tomb of a 14th-century Sufi saint this week

Makhdum Ali Mahimi, who is buried in the popular Mahim dargah, is the patron saint of the city police.

Mridula Chari
· Dec 26, 2015 · 02:30 pm
In hotbed of Islamist extremism in northern Pakistan, a Hindu Baba is revered

The author of a fascinating study of the religious minorities of Pakistan visits a Hindu temple in the tumultuous region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Haroon Khalid
· Jun 14, 2014 · 06:22 am