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112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity
Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.
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
A half baked secularism: Teesta Setalvad on caste and communalism
Drawing on the subcontinent's history of faith entwined politics and the resultant consolidation of power in the hands of the few, Teesta Setalvad invokes Ambedkar, Periyar and uses her own engagement with communalism to argue that the battle for secularism in India simply cannot be won without addressing the issue of caste. First published in Communalism Combat in April 1999.
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