Religious Experiences in America

Women’s dressing has always been a sore point in most social circles across the world. In India when several Catholic co-educational colleges in my hometown (Bangalore) passed laws preventing their girl students from wearing skin-tight and/ revealing clothes there was a huge outrage. Feminists rampaged across the streets claiming that it was suppression of women’s […]

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I recently read this article on News Blaze about the inauguration of a Unity Church of Today. According to the news report Rajan Zed, a self-proclaimed Hindu leader and Public Relations Officer of the Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada, has been invited to inaugurate and bless the church in Nevada’s capital Carson city. The article […]

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One of the things I have noticed about religious spaces, irrespective of any faith is that these buildings are usually grand and beautiful to look at. I presume this is because the religious space belongs to the community and each member contributes towards its creation, maintenance and upgradation. And added to it the state/ federal […]

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Yesterday we had driven down to the US-Mexico border city of Laredo which. The large city has been dissected into half by the Rio Grande river which has been used by the governments of both nations to mark off the borders. I remembered the border between India and Burma (Myanmar) which is also marked by […]

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While I was in India I was disgusted with politicians perennially using religion/ community/ caste/ language etc to garner support and get elected to power. I was always under the impression that since US was a self-proclaimed Christian nation, religion wouldn’t be playing so much of a role in vote gathering. But now having lived […]

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