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  The Bihar election results are out. Now there will very likely be a lot of breast-beating or apologetics on the part of the supporters of the BJP and Modi, and gleeful crowing by their opponents.   As a consistently staunch Hindutva supporter but N.O.T.A voter, I would like to make two points which may [...]

Suddenly, everyone wants us, Kashmiri Pandits (KPs), to return to the Valley. Everyone, including Yasin the murderer and Geelani the Fuehrer. And, not just return, but return with “honour” and “dignity”. Why? Because “Kashmir also belongs to the KPs” and, believe it or not, “without KPs Kashmir is not complete”. Kashmir has also been in [...]

There are those who consider a lecture on ancient discipline as intolerable as a beheading. During the last few months many journalists have raged against perceived excesses and moral lapses of the Indian government. In turn, the journalists have been criticised in the social media for their hypocrisy. Many historians have also piled on in [...]

They were arrested at Mathiara village on Friday, a day after the attack at Jeleparha, Feni Model Police Station OC Mahbub Morshed said. An altercation over setting off firecrackers during Luxmi Puja led to the attack, police and locals said.   A pregnant woman, Tulshi Rani Das, 20, and at least nine others were injured [...]

Pakistani Hindus, who have arrived in the Indian capital in recent months, tell BBC Hindi’s Zubair Ahmed that they fled their homes to escape discrimination and religious persecution. Mala Das can just about write her name. At 16, this has been her greatest achievement. “When I came here I was completely unlettered. Today I can [...]

LONDON: Kashmiri Hindus in the UK have held an event in the British Parliament to mark the 68th anniversary of the signing of the ‘Instrument of Accession’ of Jammu and Kashmir to India by Maharaja Hari Singh. Jointly organised by the Kashmiri Pandits Cultural Society and Voice of Dogras, the event earlier this week was [...]

Far away from her homeland, her family, whom she is waiting for, in ‎India to arrive since past 2 years..a Pakistani Hindu ‎migrant Kiran dadi has a lot to share. She’s a kind of person who doesn’t need much to be happy.Her soul is full of life when life has not been so kind to [...]

Sanskrit is often referred to as the language of the Devas. But is this really true? Certainly the antiquity of Sanskrit is not in question, as there is little doubt that the vibrational and sound model for Sanskrit is considerably old, as Sanskrit as a language is traced back to at least the Brahmi script[i], [...]

Why is “Net Neutrality” important? In order to discuss this subject, one needs to understand just exactly what it is, as both sides in the debate are guilty of obfuscating what it means in order to promote their positions, both relying upon the same language of “Liberty” and “Freedom” to describe their respective views. For [...]

Masked miscreants attacked a temple and desecrated at least six Deities at Gurudashpur upazila in Natore early today. At least eight masked men entered the temple at Chachkoir village in the upazila and vandalised six Deities including Deities of Durga, Saraswati, Laxmi and Kartik around 4:30am, Madhab Sheel, president of the area’s Puja Celebration Committee [...]