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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

Visit My Mosque: How a tour inside mosques is promoting harmony

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A short guide on your voting rights and duties ahead of 2019 polls

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We need more Gladys Staines in India to defeat hatred

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A Community Poster that Speaks for Peace: Bombay 1992-1993

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Kashmiri Pandits gather support for starving family in South Kashmir

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Bulandshahr temple opens gates for Muslims to offer Namaz

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Remembering V P Singh: A defender of diversity and secularism

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Kashmir’s plural ethos and communal harmony

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