Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 2 November- 9 November 2014
1. Protest over minor’s girl abduction and forced conversion Report: Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, a member of Pakistan’s National Assembly, informed the local media that Anjali, a 13-year-old Hindu girl, was kidnapped More...
IndiaFacts Impact: Mission India adds Indian director
On 18 October, IndiaFacts published the first part of a series investigating the funding sources, its modus operandi and other activities of the Michigan based evangelical organization, Mission India. The expose ran in More...
Tapan Ghosh arrested by TMC Govt: How you can help
UPDATE: According to this tweet from Tapan Ghosh he is being taken to some undisclosed location. Tapan Ghosh, President of Hindu Samhati (HS), a Hindu organisation working for the cause of Hindus in West Bengal More...
Karuna Medical College Kerala fines student for celebrating Diwali
As we all know Diwali is the pan-Indian festival of light with the light symbolizing triumph of good over evil, freedom over forces of ignorance and cruelty. All Indian traditions be they Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or More...
Muslims gang-rape a minor Hindu girl in Tirthahalli: Massive cover up to protect the rapists
(Note: This is a translation of the Kannada news report of a minor Hindu girl’s brutal gang rape at Tirthahalli in Karnataka, and how the entire establishment and media is working to save the rapists.) Tirthahalli More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 27 October 2014 — 2 November 2014
1. Caste discrimination in Government-controlled temples in Kerala Report: The Hindu Aikya Vedia has petitioned the state government of Kerala to take stringent action against the Kochi Devaswom Board for denying More...
A tale of two constitutions – India and Pakistan
(This was sent by an IndiaFacts reader and well-wisher, Newspaper Reader. @readernewspaper on Twitter) Although India was partitioned on religious lines, the Constituent Assembly of India chose to More...
Pankaja Tai, remember patience is a virtue
This is a translation of Ramesh Patange’s piece in Marathi that was published in Mumbai Tarun Bharat on 24 October. Dear Pankaja Tai, The Maharashtra Assembly elections have just concluded. No doubt you played More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 20 October 2014 — 26 October 2014
1. Hindu families under fresh threat Report: Members of two Hindu families are fearing fresh attack as the main accused in a murder case at bordering Nawdabash village in Kaliganj upazila is allegedly threatening More...
FCRA funding expose Part 2: Evangelists buying land in India
In Part 1 of this series, we saw how Organizations (primarily NGOs, but a few GOs as well) receiving foreign funds via FCRA, use that money to earn more money, and the quantum of such money in circulation within More...