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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

Three hundred Ramayans

The epic story’s spectacular journey through the ages: An extract from The Collected Essays of AK Ramanujan

Meeras Mahal: A Journey Through Kashmir’s Timeless Heritage

SOPORE: In a picturesque corner of north Kashmir’s Sopore...

Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Shamil, شامِل, to walk together is to live together

The Religious Diversity Walk organised through the World Heritage Week in Ahmedabad by a city-based new platform called Saanjhi Virasat (Composite heritage) was facilitated by Bhavna Ramrakhiani and Jitendra Singh Rajput

Karnataka: A sudden heart attack takes away Sheikh Jaleel, Nadaswaram player

A lived examples of generational syncretic tradition of coastal Karnataka (Udipi), Shaikh Jaleel, passed away on Monday, November 13 following a heart attack

Diwali has been celebrated by Muslims for centuries

Syncretism of Diwali- How Mughal emperors celebrated Diwali and contemporary Muslims celebrate today

Epics Journeys—How the Ramayana sailed to faraway lands, Indonesia, Thailand and more

It was trade and scholarship, conquest and exchanges that took our epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata across the seas, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea onto the shores of South-eastern Asian countries: Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. Closer home, we see some influences also in Myanmar.

Once Upon an India — reminiscence at Ganesh Chaturthi

…and then in the middle of the school year, just like that, it would be time for the festival of the Elephant-headed God!

Sanskrit & the democracy of language

The claim to “save” Sanskrit is nothing but part of a manipulative conspiracy to limit and control languages under the canopy of Hindutva   

2034: A Futuristic Play Involving Magic and Dystopia

A few months ago, I Went to watch "2034",...

When I hear bloodthirsty slogans of ‘Jai Sri Ram,’ I remember Fr Camille’s ‘Ram Katha’

As the fringe slogans  'Jai Sri Ram' while ransacking shops & houses disrespecting the name of Sri Ram, I hear...

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