John Singarayar argues that religious spectacle is used to deflect from India's governance failures, citing the Indore water tragedy, Delhi pollution, and attacks on minorities.

(RNS) — Born in India, I’ve spent most of my life in the United States, including 20 years in academia writing about religion in America. For years, I imagined a “someday” project to write a book ...

(RNS) — US politicians are under increasing pressure to account for their courtship of Indian Prime Minister Modi, the leader of a strategically important ally and the world's largest democracy. (RNS) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. India’s Himalayan state becomes first to pass controversial uniform law for religions The Indian state of Uttarakhand became the ...

Exploring the deep fault lines where faith, power, and ideology collide in modern India's complex landscape, says KUMAR CHELLAPPAN Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770), the great Malayalam poet, once wrote ...

Since dharma in our tradition has never meant religion in the narrow sense, dharma nirapekshata unnecessarily conveys indifference to a society’s moral values ...

A tribes woman prays during a sit-in demonstration rally to demand of recognizing Sarna Dharma as a religion in Ranchi, capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Oct. 18, 2022. Credit: AP ...

An important distinguishing and defining factor of India is its plurality, and an important unifying theme is its diversity. In this statement lies a self-evident truth about India; everything in ...

Evangelical Fellowship of India panel responds to Pew research as annual tally of religious freedom violations gets released. Christians in India are seeking to square conflicting research on communal ...

(UPDATED) Pew surveys 30,000 Indians across 6 faiths and 17 languages and finds support for tolerance yet also segregation. A third of Hindus in India would not be willing to accept a Christian as a ...