Come, dear sisters and brothers
Let’s rejoice on this anniversary
And celebrate our perversions Read more

Having personally been to Ground Zero less than a month after the world’s turning point — 9/11 — I tracked the news from around the world to see how society, politics and religion are intersecting with one another 10 years later. Read more

And after all the heat and dust, it took a simple statement from the Supreme Court to end decades of turmoil and tension. Read more

Last week, when my friend dropped in for dinner, I was surprised to see him not eating chicken. Read more

I’m surprised and rather disappointed with the response to my post yesterday: French Muslims need an Anna Hazare. An entire religion is being viewed through the prism of a few manipulators, fundamentalists, extremists. Read more

As the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal moves from being a Hindu monarchy to a secular nation, the relationship between state and religion is changing. Read more

Three books, published in the past few months, have focussed on Islamophobia, a phenomenon that United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan was at a loss to describe. Read more

If Indonesia’s deputy house speaker Priyo Budi Santoso words are to be taken to their logical conclusion, we might have another religion in the offing. Read more

With a global revival in religion and the general interest in it rising with every passing crisis, I am surprised that the two credible institutions that can hold forth on such matters — education and media — have not kept pace. Read more

Because Egypt is an Islamic nation, debates are starting around the revolution in the country having a religious texture. Read more