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Shared Muharram Heritage: Hindus lead Tazias, Sikhs serve water

Across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Jammu & Kashmir, families and communities came together during Muharram through processions, acts of service and remembrance. Whether by preparing Tazias, organising processions, distributing water or joining commemorations, these local traditions continue to reflect mutual respect and peaceful coexistence among people from different communities.

Tales of love: Choosing humanity over religion in 2022

When hate sells, it is tales of everyday harmony that get lost in the clamour for blood. It is such stories of fraternity that not only bring a ‘feel-good’ factor in our daily news, but reaffirm the Indian people’s basic commitment to co-existence, pluralism and tolerance

Sikh family donates land for mosque; to help with building it too

This is being done to help the Muslim families, who have to travel five kilometers to pray. The village currently has only a Muslim graveyard.

When silence is eloquent

The tortuous course of the law

How little Arshad held on to Priyanka’s fingers when the bridge collapsed in Morbi

Neighbours, close in life, found dead together in the Morbi tragedy.

Everyday Harmony: Heroes to the rescue – Muslims amongst many pitch in to save lives in Morbi

A silver line of hope as migrant workers, neighbours, agniveers risk their lives to save those drowning in the Machhu river

Visakhapatnam: Muslims serve food to devotees of Ayyappa

Image courtesy: Times of IndiaVISAKHAPATNAM: Setting yet another example...

Everyday Love: When Diwali becomes that much more special

Each day, every festival, brings as many tales of...

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

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