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Topic: Faith

Indians employ a unique mechanism to marry science and faith. It leaves both hollow

When every scientific result that agrees with scripture is trumpeted and every disagreeing result is quarantined as provisional, science ceases to be a method. It becomes ornamentation.

SubscriberWrites: God, faith, belief and governance – an Indian perspective

This brief musing is only an attempt to tickle your thoughts in directions not often treaded. There is a need for the nation to travel these paths.

SC ruling on hijab & Gyanvapi won’t just be limited to faith. It’ll be about our democracy

While petitions against Karnataka’s hijab ban are an opportunity to define student rights, those against Place of Worship Act can be a platform to ensure a robust law-making procedure in India.

18 nations were asked about media reporting on religion. Here’s what people said

HarrisX's CEO, who has been consulted in the past by PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi, spoke exclusively to ThePrint about the findings of the survey on faith and religion.

Mamata Banerjee’s unwavering faith in divine interventions and supernatural forces

In 'Mamata: Beyond 2021', Jayanta Ghosal details how the TMC leader was successfully able to portray herself as the 'daughter of Bengal'.

For wealth chasers, liberation theology is Marxist. For others, it’s justice and freedom

Defaming certain faiths is part of a carefully crafted and meticulously managed project. Its latest and most illustrious trophy is Father Stan Swamy.

Bollywood threatened my relationship with Islam: What Zaira Wasim wrote in her open letter

Dangal actor Zaira Wasim announced her decision to quit Bollywood on Sunday. Read the full text of her open letter.

Young Sikhs are signing up for a new kind of tuition: Turban tying lessons

The Sikh tradition has spawned a business that is bringing the turban back in fashion. And it's not all about the money. New Delhi: When Sarabjit...

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Indians employ a unique mechanism to marry science and faith. It leaves both hollow

When every scientific result that agrees with scripture is trumpeted and every disagreeing result is quarantined as provisional, science ceases to be a method. It becomes ornamentation.

All aboard the ‘Reform Express’: PM Modi’s 2047 ride runs on seven tracks

'Reform from conviction, not compulsion', says PM, linking India’s 2047 ambitions to reforms across manufacturing, technology, defence, infrastructure, green growth and soft power.

Navy officer, who entered burning LPG tanker repeatedly to recover missing crew, awarded Shaurya Chakra

Lieutenant Commander Shivam Kumar was serving onboard INS Trikand when it was directed to assist Cameroon-flagged LPG tanker, while transiting through Houthi attack zone on 18 October, 2025.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman