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Unifying cultural celebration weaponised: Ganesh processions turned into stages for hate speech & moral policing
Ganesh Chaturthi, once a symbol of shared community celebration, was exploited this year by hard-line groups across India to amplify anti-Muslim and anti-Christian rhetoric, transforming a festival of harmony into a tool of exclusion
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Fireworks and Firearms: The Festival of Lights in the Mughal Court
"With the aroma of honey and almond wafting through the heavy air of decadence, the kufuri-shama casting silhouettes of a glorious past, and Nazeer Akbarabadi’s nazms resonating with a sense of coexistence, the last Mughal Diwalis were a curious confluence of tears and laughter."
Muslims donate to renovate Hindu temple in Gujarat
Minority community members help with event management during a three-day yagna, also offer free beverages to devotees
Muslim man in Ayodhya takes lead in organising Durga Puja
Mohammad Taufeeq says that he considers it a matter of good fortune to serve and pray to Maa Durga with a sincere heart.
Assam’s Shivsagar sees joint Durga Puja celebrations by Hindus & Muslims
Image Courtesy: pipanews.comIn a reassuring display of communal harmony between the...
Mohammed Manik jumps into turbulent Mal river, saves 9 lives
28-year-old, Mohammad Manik becomes the hero of the Durga Dashami immersions saving lives caught in a sudden swell in the river
Over decades, it is Muslims who design tableaux for Cuttack’s Durga Puja
The Alis family has got contracts from various Puja Committees in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Rourkela and even Hyderabad as people love their finished work, he said.
Kaushambi: Muslims welcome Ram Dal performers and priests
When a traditional procession passed through a Muslim neighbourhood, residents offered participants refreshments
Dubai is now home to one more Hindu temple, first one was built in 1958
Residents can now worship in one more shrine located in Jebel Ali's worship village
Hindus, Muslims worship Durga in ‘no man’s land’: Assam
Representation ImageA collective Durga Pooja celebration, across a thin,...
Members of Ganpati Visarjan procession pay respect to mosque
The procession switched the music from Hindu bhajans to Islamic devotional songs while passing by a mosque
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