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Column | Shiva’s sexuality and Buddha’s celibacy

The Ocean Sutra is a 1,500-year-old Mahayana Buddhist manuscript that shows a strong influence of Tantrik Shaiva ideology. It was composed in...

Devdutt Pattanaik

India’s customs notification No. 405/12/88-CUS-III shook the world 36 years ago. For it banned the import of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses....

Coaches and selectors who train themselves to spot ability in a young player are reluctant to acknowledge its decline as the same player ages....

Every four years, the American talk show circuit puts the celebrity-baiting and movie promotions on hold for a bit, thanks to election season....

At the turn of the century, a friend, an India cricketer, told me, “If you can make around eight and a half lakh rupees a year, you can be...