The Constitution has not failed to define secularism. What we suffer from is selective understanding. We remember secularism ...

Lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar on Thursday said secularism cannot be imparted through “crash courses” or formal instruction ...

Javed Akhtar, speaking at the Jaipur Literature Festival, emphasized that secularism should be a natural way of life rather than a taught concept. Sharing personal anecdotes, he highlighted the ...

Addressing a packed audience during his session, titled Javed Akhtar: Points of View, Akhtar said secularism in recent times has been reduced to a “four-letter word”, but argued that secular values do ...

Are there any conservative columnists who aren’t either wooly-brained, filled with unrighteous anger, or both? Even George Will occasionally got it right, but Ross Douthat? Nope. And he writes for The ...

The 67 million Catholics in the United States represent just six percent of the global Catholic population of 1.2 billion, but we sometimes have a hard time understanding how the other 94 percent ...

The rise of a secular culture, combined with an increasing number of self-identified atheists and agnostics in western societies, has led to a certain amount of handwringing among religious believers.

In the public school I went to in the 1970s, "secular" was A neutral, descriptive word. Our social-studies teacher taught us that ours was a "secular" government, by which she meant that we lived free ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan criticized the BJP-led central government for its policies affecting Muslims, calling for strengthened secularism. Speaking at the Kerala Yatra, he emphasized ...

Secularism can’t be taught through crash courses, it’s a “way of life” that comes naturally, lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar ...