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Renuka Narayanan

Renuka Narayanan

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The writer writes on religion and culture.

By Renuka Narayanan

On Shani dev’s birthday, how to make him really, really happy

Charming coping stories to help us deal optimistically with whatever befalls us.

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Extraordinary lives of two Madrasi women who braved tradition to live on their terms

[Book excerpt] Renuka Narayanan tells the story of a silent subversion from 20th century South India.

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Madras HC's view on obscenity in Kathakali, Karagattam seems obscene

Can it be that some judges want to 'sanitise' our traditional arts according to what they personally consider 'proper'?

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I'm bored reading yet another article on 'Brahminical' Carnatic music

Yeh kya double standard hai?

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Homosexuality, what nature not laws decide

The scope for humane and inclusive law is thus tremendous and justifiable, since variation, in sexuality as in other matters, is one of nature’s own laws.

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6th century Ramayana found: Stop caring what the West thinks

While versions of the epics may come and go, the gods themselves are not going anywhere.

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So, who are the modern Hindus?

Upanishads come right back in the colonial age, as the new and improved version that we know as the Constitution.

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Bharat is not Modi: Let her do a selfie with daughter for once

It looks like the trolls have made it all about the articulate city women, while the intended beneficiaries of the catchy 'Selfie with Beti' idea, have been pushed off the map.

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Why Lord Ram is the most misunderstood man in India

Leave Him alone, Ram-ranters, don’t ruin our relationship.

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Our ancestors ate beef. So what?

Knowing these facts about classical Hinduism never hurt anybody's belief today or in the past.

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