In it they grow. Deprived of it they wither. Yet it’s a busy world — true now, true 700 years ago when a monkish aristocrat, or aristocratic monk, named Yoshida no Kenko (c. 1283-1350 ...

As religious hostilities tore India apart, MS Golwalkar, the monkish, bespectacled leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), saw an opportunity to reinvigorate the Hindu revivalist ...