This is the paradox at the heart of Dasa Mahavidya: Gesture, Form and the Feminine Divine, an exhibition that brings together the works of Krishnanand Jha (1947–2018) and Santosh Kumar Das. For ...

For a long time the hippest word in art criticism was “transgressive”. One of the things that defined a work as modern was the breaking of taboos. And there were so many taboos to break: depictions of ...

In the classic narratives of adultery, such as those of David and Bathsheba or Lancelot and Guinevere, infidelity was viewed as a profound transgression against divine law and moral order. Adultery ...

Infidelity in monogamous relationships poses a seeming paradox. On one hand, it is universally considered a moral transgression, a source of concern for partners, an oft-cited cause of divorce, and a ...

Clergy sin, but they rarely advocate sin. There is an apparently apocryphal story about the famously reticent President Calvin Coolidge: Upon returning from church and being asked by his wife what the ...

Assalaamu alaykum. A person wants to supplicate to get a righteous and practicing wife who has praiseworthy qualities like Taqwah (piety), knowledge, good manners, etc., and at the same time he asks ...