Renuka Narayanan

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

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

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

Yeh kya double standard hai?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Believing liberal Hindus should hang in there and not be confused by these nasty little men.

Neither fact nor fiction can be uttered for fear of offending someone, anyone, and always with unpleasant consequences.

The painter attracted the ire of both Hindus and Muslims.

If crypto-Wahabis are trying to turn Bharatvarsh into a fiefdom of ISIS or the Taliban, it's time they're reminded of such facts.

It is intolerable in a modern state that any self-styled cult leader can set up his will against the forces of law and order and actually fire at them.

Where does India get her mad gambling gene that goes for broke every year at Dipavali?