Culture and History
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Watch: Hanuman Chalisa and chants of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ reverberate in Hauz Qazi Durga Mandir that was earlier desecrated by Muslim mob
Hindu activists today organised a prayer event and recitation of the Hanuman Chalisa at the Durga Mandir in Hauz Qazi that was earlier vandalised.
Fanatics at the front door: The case of Hauz Qazi
Democracy is all about giving a voice to the voiceless and representation to the faceless. This is what went missing in the initial period of the incident of Hauz Qazi in Old Delhi where a Hindu temple was vandalized.
Dear Mahua Moitra, it’s not the Right-wing that is the same everywhere, it’s the Left
Mahua Moitra, is the new darling of the Left.
I am a Hindu: Breaking of temples brings back the worst of my civilizational memories
The incident in Chandni Chowk, in the heart of Delhi, in today’s India, causes a deep pain. It reminds us of the humiliation that our ancestors suffered for being Hindus in India.
The not-so-syncretic Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb and the false wails of how ‘Sanghis’ turned Urdu into a ‘Muslim language’
Often one sees 'liberals invoking Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or the Syncretic Hindu Muslim culture of North India every time they hear the idea of New India. In reality, they see it as an attack on anything Muslim by the BJP.
No, The Dalai Lama is not a ‘Racist’ or ‘Islamophobe’ for defying the Multicultural Doctrine
Dalai Lama has reiterated that Europe should belong to Europeans.
Leila: Who would question Prayaag Akbar or Netflix?
I expect a political storm over Leila, a six-part TV serial on Netflix, the first season of which went on air last week.
Yoga is rooted in Hindu spiritual traditions and so is Vande Mataram, disassociating them from Hinduism an insult to our ancestors
The Communist Chief Minister of Kerala pontificated on how none of the Asanas performed on International Yoga Day had anything to do with any religion.
The Partition of Bengal: Supported by all sections of Bengali Hindus to protect their own lives and identity
On West Bengal day, we revisit the partition of West Bengal and how all Bengali Hindus fought for their homeland
The elite apathy of self-consumed Indians and self-identified ‘South Asians’
The truth is that none of this lot feels a thing when the name Hindu is napalmed, no, irradiated like Chernobyl actually, because it doesn't affect them much.
