Sri Lankan authorities arrest and mistreat Tamil Nadu fishermen, sparking protests and demands for intervention and justice.

The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity ...

Sri Lanka's act of tonsuring Tamil Nadu fishermen's heads insults self-respect, with Indian government being a mute spectator.

Teacher reportedly brandishes a gun to intimidate students A teacher in Thailand was fired after he shaved bald spots into ...

Archbishop Elpidophoros Holds Rassophoria, Stavrophoria, Tonsure of Readers, and Blessing for New Students at Hellenic College Holy Cross ...

My favorite is the tonsure-bedecked monk sitting on a throne holding his sampler, like a piece of manuscript marginalia transported to the modern age. Teenage Engineering EP-1320 Medieval If you ...

monk-favoured tonsure look. So does the notable hair help? Obviously the supreme skills of the famously un-hirsute Kojak blows this theory out of the water. Sometimes the great sleuths have to ...

In some quarters of the Catholic Church, tonsure, the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp, is mandatory for new priests and monks. Despite the practice being ...

In his youth he was sent to seminary in Novgorod where he received a good education and later taught Greek and other subjects. Having received the monastic tonsure with the name Tikhon, in the same ...

Its detailed design includes a crowned Virgin Mary holding the Christ child and kneeling to her right is a monk looking up at her, identified by his tonsure. He would have attached the matrix to a ...

A husband insists on taking his two children to his family deity’s temple in Tamil Nadu for their tonsure ceremony. Without informing his wife, he books the tickets and when the wife tries to ...