Congregation: Yes. Did you think that it made a good point? Rabbi: Yes. I have something to confess to all of you. Congregation: And that would be … ? Rabbi: I have never liked responsive readings.

Shortly after I started writing this column six years ago, I was chatting with a colleague about the mystifying--but, to a columnist, obsessively fascinating--topic of reader response. This colleague, ...

Joy Goswami represents that section of the Bengali middle class which looks up to Rabindranath Tagore as a shishya looks up to the guru. Only this May, Goswami wrote a passionate commentary of his ...