धार्मिक कट्टरपन
November 2, 2016
The Hindus of Nasirnagar area in Brahmanbaria district who had chosen not to flee despite massacres committed against them during the 1971 Liberation War are now thinking of it as the last option to save their life.
Two Hindu women offer devotion before an idol of Lord Shiva, broken from an attack on the temple at Makhalpara, Brahmanbaria on Sunday. The photo was taken yesterday MAHMUD...
November 2, 2016
Right-wing movements are repackaging ideas from white nationalism into a new, more middle-class culture by using the strategies and language of the left (4,500 words).
This article first appeared in Waging Nonviolence.
A Trump supporter at an April PSU Students for Trump event. Credit: WNV/ Shane Burley. All rights reserved.
A murmur began in May around Berkeley and the surrounding...
November 1, 2016
राश्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ की विचारधारा ने जो सबसे घिनौना काम किया है वह है महात्मा गांधी की हत्या। आज पूरी दुनिया में भारत की पहचान अगर किसी एक व्यक्ति से होती है तो वे महात्मा गांधी हैं जिन्हें दुनिया के तमाम कमजोर लोगों के दमनकारी षक्तियों के खिलाफ आंदोलन और पर्यावरण संरक्षण हेतु आंदोलन अपना आदर्ष मानते हैं। इस अपराध का कलंक राश्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ कभी धो नहीं पाएगा भले ही नरेन्द्र मोदी उनके नाम...
November 1, 2016
A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims in the state.
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A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims in the state. In all these incidents Muslims were the main targets.
According to the findings of a team of All India Secular Forum, more than 40...
November 1, 2016
Only 30-35 policemen were deployed to control a 3000-men strong crowd, which later turned into an unruly mob and vandalised about 100 homes and 10 temple in the district's Nasirnagar upazila
The conjoint idol of Radha and Krishna-- Hindu god and goddess, somehow survived an attack launched on different temples in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar on Sunday, October 30, 2016Dhaka Tribune...
November 1, 2016
Barely four days ago, October 27, 2016 to be precise, addressing a rally at no less a historic spot than Etawah, known for being politically savvy strongman Mulayam Singh’s home turf, BJP’s chief strategist and party president, Amit Shah took us all down memory lane. He told a public rally and through this the voters of Uttar Pradesh (the state goes to the polls in the first...
October 31, 2016
Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims
October 31, 2016 is the 141st Birth Anniversary of the Iron Man, India’s first home minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
In 1996, scholar and politician, Rafiq Zakaria delivered the Sardar Patel Memorial lecture titled “Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims.” (They were divided in two parts: the first, dealing with the Sardar’s...
October 31, 2016
Police have filed two cases against more than 1,000 people over Sunday’s attack on temples and homes of the Hindu community in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria
An unruly mob of hundreds of people armed with locally-made weapons demolished at least 10 temples to the ground along with vandalising hundreds of houses of the Hindu community at Brahminbaria‘s Nasirnagar upazila on Sunday...
October 31, 2016
As Sikhs were being massacred in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Zail Singh stood by helplessly, Home Minister Narasimha Rao played cool.
On November 1, 1992, The Pioneer newspaper, then edited by the legendary Vinod Mehta, published a story that Amit Prakash and this reporter had stitched together. Titled, 1984: The Price of Inaction Revisited, we based our story on...
October 31, 2016
The Quranic injunction providing the option to a divorced couple to reunite has been trivialised in ulema-sanctioned common practice to the extent that it is extremely degrading and humiliating to women, defies all standards of human decency.
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Religious and social customs in almost all societies and in all walks of life were constructed by males to give them greater...