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Spreading Light and Love: Diwali festivities unite communities in Bareilly and beyond

Celebrating unity in diversity, from Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s Dargah to Diwali fairs in Syana and Bareilly. Through shared prayers, festive lights, and acts of kindness, India’s rich tradition of interfaith harmony continues to inspire, bridging divides and fostering peace across cultural and religious boundaries

Dubai is now home to one more Hindu temple, first one was built in 1958

Residents can now worship in one more shrine located in Jebel Ali's worship village

Hindus, Muslims worship Durga in ‘no man’s land’: Assam

Representation ImageA collective Durga Pooja celebration, across a thin,...

Members of Ganpati Visarjan procession pay respect to mosque

The procession switched the music from Hindu bhajans to Islamic devotional songs while passing by a mosque

A half baked secularism: Teesta Setalvad on caste and communalism

Drawing on the subcontinent's history of faith entwined politics and the resultant consolidation of power in the hands of the few, Teesta Setalvad invokes Ambedkar, Periyar and uses her own engagement with communalism to argue that the battle for secularism in India simply cannot be won without addressing the issue of caste. First published in Communalism Combat in April 1999.

Nafrat Chodo – Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan!

14th August “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” – Another Strategy to Fuel the Politics of Hate & Division! A day of mourning and introspection is being transformed into a day of further spawning hatred and division – India must Resist It!

Hirebedanur: Non-Muslims villagers commemorate Muharram in this Karnataka village that has no Muslims

The holy month for mourning and reflection also has other unique traditions

Kashmiri Pandits welcome back Hajis with Na’at recital

Previously local Muslims had assisted in the rescue of Amarnath pilgrims during the flash-floods

Everyday Harmony: Muslim employer ensures last rites of Hindu employee

The Patna trader said he acted in keeping with the Ganga-Jamuni culture of northern India

Muslim groups organise drinking water in flood ravaged Silchar

The Assam town's residents found government's flood relief efforts insufficient

Indians stand united, don’t allow Hate to prevail over Harmony

Amidst the instances of hate speech, outbreaks of violence and bulldozer injustice, let us take a look at the efforts of ordinary citizens who helped preserve harmony

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