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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
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Raksha Bandhan: Hindu-Muslims tie Rakhi to each other in riot-hit Basirhat
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112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity
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The soul of India resides in pluralism and tolerance: Parting words of President Mukherjee
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