The Blahcksheep
The Blahcksheep X The Unredacted Podcast
The author (a teenager) talks about her lingering childhood memory and what God means to her. I perfectly remember those days of my childhood, when I used to live in a place where one could clearly hear the Azaan (I didn’t know what it’s called…I googled this while writing) from the loudspeakers of a nearby …
I have been led to believe that God resides in temples and mosques, that they live in monasteries and gurudwaras. God was the personification of hope, a perfect childhood and hearty laughter, to me God was sunset lies and bottled remorse. Allah resides in 8-year-old Imran of Afghanistan as he runs free through the vast …
thousands and thousands of years ago began an intricate system of faith thousands and thousands of years later the reasonable fine lines between faith and grandiosity between faith and superstition between faith and manipulation between faith and unruly practices have been vanishing in quite some bizarre fashion my tender yet dubious heart never comprehended the …
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I follow the orthodox religion in Russia. I like going to church. I like feeling the energy of people there. Religion, for me is belief in the supernatural. It is waiting for a miracle. My work has divine light, my work has saving lights. I explore religion through art. Marina Alaeva Marina ( b.1983) is …
Outside the Masjid, I see a pool of footwear. And I recall the feet of men and women in them. The grey boots are of Hasan – the barber who told me that both mandir and masjid have six letters, and Hindi and Urdu do not. But if Hindus wear a hijab, wouldn’t you mistake …
[This article by Ananya Narain Tyagi first appeared in a blog, Law and Other Things. It has been co-edited and coordinated by Mariyam Mayan, Gayatri Gupta & Anushri Bhuta] “It was one of those moments best described as irreconcilable: both joyful an tragic, both authentic and spurious, both natural and manipulated. It opened doors and …
“Naked and like a raisin, a wrinkled knob of our imagining…” a poem on God by Mitra Visveswaran My friends and I make fun of godHe is a shrivelled up prune by our doorwaysNaked and like a raisinA wrinkled knob of our imagining It is a child-like cruelty that has us do soGod god godNow …
Most atheists turn to atheism after having had some exposure to the ideas of religion and God. But the vice versa isn’t true when it comes to theists – at least the present-day ones. I belong to the category that says ‘I don’t know, so I’ll be as aware as I can and control what I …
[ April 5 21:00 “Sarva Shaktimate Parmaatmane Sri Ramaaya Namaha.”] She stresses on the ‘Sri. Shi-ree. She’s said it 25, now 26, now 27 times. Repeated sounds usually throw me into panic but I’m standing on both feet equally. Maybe it’s because I’ve been busy calculating the number of times she’s going to say the …
Having grown up in a Sikh family, the author opens up on her encounters with Sikhism and draws a distinction between organised religion and personal belief/faith. You can also read this piece in Hindi, translated by Aarohi Vaidya here. I suffer from depression, borderline personality disorder and OCD. I have time and again been told …