The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) report titled 'Better Together: Understanding the 2022 Violence in Leicester', claims that its findings show that “no single community or group is ‘to blame’ for the violence, distrust, and tensions that erupted in 2022.” However, the report conveniently picked Hindus, Hindutva, and the BJP government in India to blame for violence and communal polarisation in Leicester in 2022.
A society that celebrates a 14-year-old’s rage-bait videos more than his education is not nurturing dissent, it is exploiting childhood for its petty political gains.
Speaking at the Guru Vandana Utsava in Hosur, the judge explained the philosophical basis of seeing Gurus as living embodiments of the divine and said he would draw spiritual strength during his remaining years of service.
Shukla told police that he was taken to a mosque, made to recite religious verses, given a forged Aadhaar in a changed name and thrashed whenever he tried to escape, before finally fleeing to a police outpost.
The book doesn’t paint a one-sided picture. It emphasizes accountability mechanisms, such as judges being bound by a code of conduct, internal complaint systems like the Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS), which handled over 1,600 complaints between 2017 and 2021, and informs about parliamentary impeachment for serious allegations.
The ASI recorded the presence of wall alignments, pillar bases and stone flooring whose orientation and layout matched traditional temple architectural plans.