India
The Lady Twilight – Part II
Tantra isn’t about sex but feeding insatiable goddesses the sexual emissions they crave.
The Lady Twilight – Part I
Welcome to the burning grounds of Bengal, an open-air lunatic asylum for the divinely mad.
A Crisis for the Faithful
KtB senior editor Meera Subramanian has a thing for birds and they take her to the most interesting of places. In Mumbai, following an evaporating trail of vultures, she found…
The Moon is Elsewhere
The presence—or absence—of the gods can make a Hindu out of even the most secular.
Explosions in Mumbai
A year ago today ten men in jeans and black t-shirts took ten minutes to hijack Mumbai, a cosmopolitan city that everyone here in India compares to New York. With…
When Gods Disappear
The brothers were racing for the sun. What brothers don’t create such fantastic games of competition and daring, even when they are gods? Especially if they are gods. Jatayu and…
Indian Pelagianism: Learn to Overpower Death
Among the opponents of Augustine of Hippo in the 4th and 5th centuries were the Pelagians—monks, mostly, who believed that salvation and eternal life could be accomplished by a finely-chiseled…
Getting Godly in Mysore
We’ve come to the hilltop where the Chamundeshwari Temple overlooks the city of Mysore, India, but we can’t pass up the free admission to the Godly Museum across the parking lot.…
Military Mahabharata
This, from the February 2nd issue of India Today: “In a final showdown between two contenders for the title of Tank No. 1 this June, the Indian Army will conduct…
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