Shantigiri Maharaj, who is contesting from the Nashik Lok Sabha seat as an Independent, has refused to withdraw his candidature even though the ruling alliance has requested him to do so ...

Saint Nilus, who had Constantinople as his homeland, was a disciple of Saint John Chrysostom. He had formerly been an eparch of the city, then became an ascetic on Mount Sinai. He wrote epistles and ...

After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will ...

Siddharta renounced everything to take up the life of a wandering ascetic. Six years later, he attained enlightenment while ...

In Jane Schoenbrun’s new feature, two teens search for their true selves through their shared obsession with a horror TV ...

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Molière’s 360-year-old satire remains relevant as ever in this well-executed production, on stage through May 5.

Shakila, the unlikely celebrity, is overjoyed. How a vegetable vendor’s unschooled daughter, who at 12-13 became the second ...

Manor Lords is unusually idiosyncratic sim that will keep you curious and delighted with its many intricacies.

Although he was born into a royal family with a silver spoon in his mouth, Prince Siddhartha was an ascetic at heart with a ...

He locates the shared presence in their writings of what he calls "ascetic modernism". The perfectionist novelist and the poet agonized by redemptive possibilities meet and blend in these pages; the ...