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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

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