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How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand
What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar
Sikh NGO provides aid to the marginalized in NE
United Sikhs are serving two meals and breakfast and tea to the impoverished in Guwahati and Shillong
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Service to humanity is the only motivation for Aasif Mujtaba
Setting an example: Muslim devotee donates sprayer for Tirupati temple sanitization
Abdul Ghani, 45, is an ardent disciple of Lord Venketeswara and has made several donations for public service there in the past
‘Seva’, the Sikh langar, from Bhai Kanhaiya to Delhi Violence, 2020
As I coordinate with someone in Delhi who wanted...
Hopeful in surreal, dystopian Delhi?
As Gurudwaras, standing as a pillar of solidarity, embrace all the affected, and Dalits lend a helping hand to the co-oppressed, a young girl, still full of hope, asks me, “What kind of action should an individual take to stop the genocide?”
Stories of Harmony over Hate: Delhi violence
Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Dalits and other communities have all come together to help each other and change the hateful narrative spread by Hindutva elements
Is the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb, so intrinsic to Delhi, being made irrelevant?
The syncretic spiritual practices, literature, aesthetics, culinary traditions, crafts and weaves that encompass the long-standing tradition called Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb are very much present in contemporary North India. Why then, do a section of communally charged people deny its relevance and existence?
Harmony over hate: Married Muslim man to be head priest of a Lingayat math
A follower of Basavanna’s philosophy Diwan Sharief will begin his duties as the main priest on February 26
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Mahatma Gandhi: ‘My Ramrajya means Khuda ki Basti… but a Secular State’
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