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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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‘Men for Others’

Xavier’s Social Service Society, AhmedabadAmong the young and the...

‘Bosco made an enormous contribution to me as a person’

Courtesy: deccanchronicle.com   Mahesh Bhatt Film DirectorI do not think that I can...

‘We believe that every one is a child of God’

​Mukta Jeevan Hospital, ShahpurNinety kilometres from Mumbai, in Shahpur...

Why Sonali Bendre gifted Rs. 25 lakhs to St. Catherine’s Home?

St. Catherine’s Home, MumbaiIn October 2000, film actress Sonali...

Victory over Poverty

St Vincent de Paul SocietyWhile the name given to...

A people’s priest

A Christian priest who has won three journalism awards,...

Agnel Baba, ‘Servant of God’

Like Saibaba of Shirdi, Moin–ud–din Chisti of Ajmer and...

Wedded to the catholic value

 Courtesy: ShutterstockThe misgivings caused by the Vatican Declaration Dominus Iesus...

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