Hindu-Muslim riot in Dhulagarh: A report
This report was filed by Rajarshi Nandy and first appeared on SirfNews. It is being republished with permission. Communal riots broke out between Hindus and Muslims in Dhulagarh area on 13 December, about 28 km from West Bengal capital Kolkata. In the night of the 12th, there were reports of serious clashes between Hindus and Muslims after the celebrations of More...
Monthly Hindu Persecution Digest: September-October 2016
September: 1. Bangladesh: ISKCON temple attacked for singing Kirtan during Muslims’ prayer, 7 injured Locals attacked the ISKCON temple at Kajo lshah area of Sylhet district in Bangladesh for singing Kirtan More...
No Peace, Only Pieces – The Sufi Mission in Kashmir!
The article has been republished from author’s blog with permission. Of late, eminent intellectuals, perfumed or otherwise, have been raising a stink about how as a society we should be ashamed of the many things More...
Monthly Hindu Persecution Digest: July-August 2016
July 2016 Hindu priest hacked to death in Bangladesh A 45-year old Hindu priest, Shaymanonda Das, was hacked to death in front of a temple in Jhinaidah district headquarter, 300km south west from the capital Dhaka More...
Report on Kaligram Muharrum riot, October 2016
The report has been prepared using eye-witness accounts by social worker and technologist Bhaswar Goswami, who hails from Kaligram village and is currently working in Bengaluru. Durga Puja is a time for celebration, More...
Contemporary challenges facing Hindu society
Waking up to the sonorous voice of Birendra Krishna Bhadra, reciting the intensely poignant Mahisasuramardini, announcing Mahalaya, is a moment of extraordinary significance for Bengali Hindus. Its memory prompted More...
Why are the tribal regions of Central India being Rapidly Christianized?
[contextly_sidebar id=”7i2bARvN1zKdcOP7nJi8DKZujbnou9Oh”] In the first part of the article on Christianisation of tribal India, we investigated the rising Christian numbers in the tribal heartlands of More...
The Rapid Christianization of Tribal Regions of Central India-the Story in Numbers
In our previous articles, we spoke of the areas where Hindus are under the imminent threat of becoming the minority: Western Uttar Pradesh [1], parts of West Bengal [2], Assam [3], Kerala and south Tamil Nadu [4], More...
AIPF Report on Bastar: Is it another Maoist propaganda document?
All India People’s Forum (AIPF), a Communist platform formed in 2014 to “take on the offensive of communal and pro-corporate policies that are being spearheaded by the Modi government”, recently published More...
Spread of fundamentalist Islam in Rajasthan: Are we missing the trap?
With the growth of religious pluralism on a global scale, freedom of religion has emerged as a fundamental human rights issue. It also intersects with political, social and economic development. One of the most More...