Why do believers believe that those who don’t avow the same kind of faith are in some fundamental manner lax in their morality?

Omar Khayyam put it cleverly, One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught / Better than in the Temple lost outright.

Indians too have an old saying that goes, “The baser sinner is he who is agyaan paapi”.

When the philosopher Nietzsche declared “God is Dead”, what exactly did he mean? Simply, that the decline of religion.

A reader has disagreed with a conjecture put forward by this writer in these columns about a month back.

Could it be that the US is floundering at the onset of the Asian century and is nervous about its own power and confidence?

A land of myths, India takes mythology rather seriously till some myth-buster jolts it down to reality. Some transformation India needs, a ...

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From an unbeliever's point of view, it could be argued that the sum of all religion arises from the realisation of the inevitability of dea...

A well known quote attributed to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, goes: "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowi...

Although the artist-poet William Blake’s views on religion must have been shocking in the 18th and early 19th centuries with lines like “Pr...

The scientific method for investigating phenomena is simple. You collect information by observing stuff, experiment with that data and fina...

In the Tibetan Book of the Dead there's a vivid description of a judgement scene presided over by a Yamaraj-like figure, the flaming Lord o...

There are 100 billion galaxies in the known universe with an estimated 100 billion stars in each of them. Planets, which form parts of indi...

One way in which a prayer does help is that it gives us a chance to answer it ourselves without unnecessarily invoking God. And, with that,...