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Religion

Playing with fire

Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds is an idiom that summarises Pakistan’s consistent tryst with religiosity.

Religion and Businesses

Religion is a key determinant of not just social harmony but economic development too. A large number of studies from across the world have found some correlation between the economic development of a country and the predominance of religion in its social life.

Gandhi and politics

Gandhi, like Hobbes and Machiavelli, recognized that the pursuit of power is a basic human characteristic. All political institutions are merely instruments for the pursuit of power, whether directly or by the indirect manner in which they maintain and foster the ownership of property and provide the psychological incentives that they are connected with power

Presenting Ganesha in an entirely new light

The words "I will help you prepare yourself for the dangers that lie ahead" and Lord Ganesha's appearance in a dream ring ominously in14-year-old Tarun Sharma's mind as he and his family travel to a festival celebrating the elephant-headed god.

Targeting Love

Marriage is more a legal and social institution rather than a religious one, and any attempt by the state to interfere in the union between two consenting adults reeks of nothing but religious prejudice, vendetta and wilful disruption of social harmony