Today is Holi, the festival of colours. It has always been one of my favourite festivals. This year the celebrations were muted due to the health advisory fo...

The situation in my city escalated and took a terrible turn. Last week there were communal riots in the North East of Delhi. 46 people of both communities we...

Most of us would like to live peacefully with people of all strata - social, religious, economic, gender identities etc. We would like to associate with each...

Youtube channel T-series clocked over 100 million subscribers this year, they became the most watched channel in the world. The content of this channel is Hi...

Just watched a few episodes of a YouTube series (and a podcast) called Metaphysical Milkshake. Actor Rainn Wilson who was part of the sitcom The Office is th...

Shaheen Bagh, a peaceful sit in protest led by Indian women in a predominantly muslim neighborhood in Delhi has been in the news for many weeks. Their primar...

Today is the last day of the India Art Fair 2020 being held in my city. I found Ghiora Aharoni's assemblage sculptures particularly thought provoking. The ar...

'Visit My Mosque Day' is a practice followed by 250 mosques in Britain, who hold an open day for people from the neighborhood. An initiative which began with...

We celebrated our 71st Republic Day on 26th January, a day the constitution was formally adopted for governing the country. India is a country where there is...

The Interfaith Observer seems like a good repository of articles by researchers, scholars and volunteers. I will probably see myself going to this website to...

In the last few weeks, the newspaper headlines and breaking news have moved away from the protests against the Citizenship Bill. Protests have been continuin...

Engagement of Indian people with religion takes place in several different ways; rituals, festivals and pilgrimages are some of them. These activities have b...

I am a young adult and as I am becoming more aware of my religious identity, I am also beginning to realise that it plays almost no part in the lives of seve...

Religion is a powerful force that drives the social behavior of Indians. I had undertaken a research project on ascertaining the demographic factors of an in...

Kahlil Gibran a Lebanese-American writer and philosopher, whose books are simple and very profound. My father used to quote from "The Prophet" and I remember...

I am continuing with the theme of the Partition of India. A few months ago, I caught this amazing National Geographic television show by Gurinder Chadha (mor...

Beginning the year with a quote by the Sufi mystic Rumi, which describes people to people relationships quite simply, "I belong to no religion. My religion i...

Have you heard about this? Well, it is a multi-media museum which creates a vivid and heart rending narrative of the Partition of India. An amazing effort to...

I heard about the late Raimon Panikkar during the Y4RH panel discussion. His biography is fascinating - he had a Hindu father and a Catalan Catholic mother....

While writing my research paper and analyzing the topic of religiosity of Indians, I came across the World Values Survey by a non-profit, non-government asso...