Gujarat Temple Invites 100 Muslims to Break Ramzan Fast, Offer Maghrib Namaz
Wasim Khan, a Muslim resident of the Dalvana village where the temple is housed, called the invitation for Hindus and Muslims to come together an “emotional moment”.
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Savarkar as a Diehard Casteist: Evidence from Hindutva Archives
Savarkarites are claiming that Savarkar had imagined a nation free of malevolent social evils such as caste cruelty, Untouchability, and injustice towards women. A comparison of these claims with the writings and deeds of Savarkar as recorded in the Hindu Mahasabha archives.
Bhagat Singh: An Unsung Hero of Political Journalism
Bhagat Singh is widely venerated as a radical thinker and political revolutionary. However, he is seldom celebrated as a journalist; an identity that was quite intrinsic to his critical thinking, individuality and revolutionary integrity.
How Hindu Extremists, Aided by the Govt, are Tearing Apart Ancient Ties Between Muslims & Hindus
Emboldened by the confirmation of a hijab ban by the high court, Hindu fundamentalist organisations have pressured temple committees across Karnataka to keep out Muslim traders from about 60 fairs and have now escalated their demands to a ban on halal meat.
In Malerkotla, One Can Find the Vestiges of India’s Forgotten History of Tolerance
The senseless and relentless march of violence has made us forget who we are and how we have lived, worked and prayed together for centuries.
Thinking with Hands: Work as Freedom for Gandhi
Gandhi was aware that intellectual labour was necessary for the culture of the mind and accepted the necessity of a division of labour, but not the idea that bodily labour had to be confined to one class and intellectual labour to another class.
Netaji Wasn’t a Friend of Hindutva, But its Adversary
The appropriation of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose by BJP-RSS erases the historical reality that Netaji, throughout his life, stood against the values that Hindutva propagates.
Nehru’s Struggle for Secularism
The idea of secularism underlay the very foundations of free India. Gandhi insisted that the multiple faiths of India can and must co-exist peaceably in a free nation. This was a belief shared by Gandhi’s most prominent follower, Nehru.
Secularism and the State: Categorising the Nehru Model
Anil Nauriya The “Nehru Models”: The Historical Nehru Model and the Posthumous Nehru Model In most circles where opinion making on behalf of minorities takes place, one of the reasons for appreciation of Jawaharlal Nehru’s approach towards the minorities generally is his statement that majority communalism, that is, sectarianism, is more dangerous than minority communalism….