Buddhist - Different Truths

December 20, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, History & Culture, Religion

Larung Gar: The Largest Buddhist Learning Centre in the World Being Demolished now

Larung Gar is located in the Kham region of Tibet. It is home to around 40,000 monks, nuns and students, though the official number is around 10,000. The Chinese army...

December 6, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Food, People, Religion

Tsampa: The Wonder Food

Tsampa is one of the traditional food of Tibet. It’s made of roasted barley flour and often is consumed with Tibetan Butter Tea. In some parts of Tibet they...

December 4, 2016
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Swigging Champagne and Spouting Socialism

We are in an age of double talk and double think. A Socialist advocates a more equitable distribution of everything including wealth. But if that individual were to be born...

November 22, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy

Afraid of the Unknown

We had planned to organise the screening of the movie, Kundan, in one of the prominent super specialty hospitals, in Kerala. The staff was very welcoming and they were excited about the idea...

November 1, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, People

A Day with Tibetans

Eswar describes a day, in July 2014, when he had attended the Tibet Festival, in Bangalore. It was the 79th birthday of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. He was...

October 4, 2016
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, History & Culture, Religion, Sculpture

Butter Sculptures: The Traditional Art Form of Tibet

Butter Sculpture is one of the traditional art forms of Tibet. More than a piece of art, it has religious implications which is in line with Buddhist teachings. Monks at...

July 10, 2016
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Dissent, Legal Issues

Is India Protecting Religious Sensitivity at the Cost of Freedom of Expression?

Tension between freedom of expression and religious intolerance is manifesting globally-particularly in multicultural Indian society, where censoring books and films by the state and further victimisation of writers, film director,...

May 11, 2016
Arindam Roy
Dissent, Profile, Subaltern & Dalits

Lenin, my Friend: Empowering the Marginal, Restoring Dignity

Arindam profiles the life and times of the human rights activist, Lenin Raghuvanshi, who has been working tirelessly to empower and emancipate the lowest of the low among Dalits, the Musahars...

May 7, 2016
Lily Swarn
Poem

Oceanic Eyes

Lily’s tribute to her mother on Mother’s Day. She talks of her sea-green oceanic eyes, among other things. Your perfume, dripping love As you tucked me into bed With the...

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