Although we first published this essay by Kiran Nagarkar, one of India’s most significant authors, a year ago, it is so powerful and insightful that we are promoting it again this year — and every Christmas to come. In ‚A Hindu Festival Called Christmas‘, Nagarkar shows how even a deeply Christian festival can be transformed through the lens of another religion. Nagarkar’s essay reveals how Christmas, as celebrated in India, becomes more than just a borrowed tradition. It becomes a space of cultural translation where Hindu perspectives reshape rituals, meanings and communal imagination without erasing faith but rather expanding it.
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December 24, 2025
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