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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
गुजरात में गोरक्षकों ने मुस्लिम युवक को मार डाला
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नवरात्रि पर मिलेगा डोमिनोज़ का शाकाहारी पिज्जा
Image(Representational) Courtesy: Onegreenplanet.orgनवरात्रि के दौरान माँसाहारी व्यंजनों की बिक्री...
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