Mercenaries

A religion founded on ahimsa — the sacred principle of non-violence — produced some of history’s most feared armies. The Shaolin monks of Tang-Dynasty China and Japan’s sōhei warrior monks …

Imagine a word so charged with fear that enemies of a medieval sect invented it as a slur — and it stuck so well it became a permanent fixture of …

Imagine being purchased as a child, transported thousands of miles from your homeland, and handed a sword. Now imagine that this is not a sentence of misery — it is …