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UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge

Be it the attack on the Gogamedi shrine in the Hanumangarh district of northern Rajasthan or the Neja Mela in the Sambhal district of western Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva’s systemic attack on India’s syncretic traditions, past and present, reveals its rigid and Brahmanical ideological orientation: imposition of a strictly hierarchical, exclusionary and structured notion of faith and practice

Tihar Jail’s poor inmates walk free as Jamiat deposits fine against them

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Two Lakh people form Human Chain to defend “Karnataka for Harmony”

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Gandhi’s Teachings Not Been Imbibed Sufficiently: Hamid Ansari

The program was followed by a march to Gandhi...

All Is Not Well within the SC & this needs Correction: Kamini Jaiswal

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Pursuing Peace

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For Mirza Ghalib, Banaras was a Place of Natural Beauty & Spirituality

Mirza Ghalib, the poet who wrote in Persian and...

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#IamChristian#IamMuslim#IamHindu#IamSikh#IamParsi, Jain, Buddhist,Jewish...And in the wise words of Rehman Bhai,...

O Bahre ओ बहरे – Take your Good Days Back by The Banned

O Behre" is dedicated to the so called "Good...

Similarities in Beliefs and Practices between Hinduism and Islam

The general perception of the Muslims is that Hinduism...

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