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Demo held protesting at attacks on Hindus

Members of the minority Hindu community on Saturday held a rally blocking Shahbagh for the second day in protest against attacks on their homes, businesses, and places of worship in various parts of the country...

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100 of Hindus block Shahbagh to protest at attacks on them

Hundreds of people from the Hindu community took to the streets in the capital’s Shabagh area on Friday afternoon to protest against the attacks on them that had occurred since August 5, following the fall of Sheikh Hasina...

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Mass resistance brings drop in attacks on minorities

Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council on Wednesday reported a dramatic drop in the number of attacks on minorities amid a spontaneous resistance put up by people against minority repression...

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A wedding and many funerals

IT’S a challenging proposition at the best of times to trust Narendra Modi by what he promises to do for anyone. A problem surfaced early in his career when, as prime ministerial hopeful, he promised to deposit a tidy sum in everyone’s bank account from the money he said he would retrieve from stolen cash hoarded abroad...

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Authorities must investigate all attacks on minorities

THE death of 45 people of minority communities in sectarian violence in July 2023–June 2024, as a Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council report claims, is alarming. The report, made public on July 8, says that there were 1,045 incidents of attacks and rights violations against religious minorities in a year...

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Sri Lanka pilgrims flee as elephant runs amok

A Hindu religious festival in Sri Lanka ended in chaos after an elephant in the procession panicked, with 13 people in the crowd injured as they fled, police said on...

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Five die from electrocution in Ratha Yatra

At least five Hindu devotees were killed and fifty more were injured in electrocution while they were participating in a Ratha Yatra procession in Bogura district on...

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The sentencing of the Hindujas

IN HIS seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concepts. In its insidious, older form, one focused on the concept of natal alienation, slaves were chattels and assets, outrightly owned. Each slave system was distinct and protean, if marked by certain universal features...

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The waning of Hindutva

Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of earning their crust. Yet again...

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Modi prepares to lead next Indian govt

The Hindu-nationalist party of Narendra Modi agreed with allies on Wednesday to form a government after a general election in which it failed to secure an outright majority for the first time in a decade...

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Modi eyes victory as Kejriwal sent back to jail

A top opponent of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi vowed Sunday to keep fighting ‘dictatorship’ before he returned to jail Sunday, following elections widely expected to produce another landslide victory for the Hindu-nationalist leader...

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Extremism squared

ACCORDING to a prominent local human rights organisation, Bangladesh has seen more than 4,000 attacks against its Hindu community since January 2013. Unfortunately, Bangladesh has witnessed such targeted persecution against minorities...

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Modi files candidacy for India election in Varanasi

Cheering crowds greeted Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday as he submitted his candidacy for a Hindu holy city’s parliamentary seat in a general election his party is strongly favoured to win. ...

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Narendra Modi’s Hindutva-driven Islamophobia

NARENDRA Modi, a member of India’s Other Backward Class, defined as a socioeconomically disadvantaged caste, swept to power in 2014 by winning 336 seats together with his BJP alliance partners. Modi, who became well known for presiding over the...

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Unwelcome returns

WITH the prescience that philosophers share with out-of-office politicians, a hundred years ago, a leading Indian scholar analysed the combustible demography of India. In 1923, Dr Radhakrishnan wrote in his two-volume survey of Indian Philosophy: ‘India even today is mainly Hindu..

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More ‘Moditva’

THE impressive logistics of India’s nat­io­nal elections inspire considerable internati­onal coverage. This year, the process initiated last Friday will culminate at the start of June, and the potential electorate inclu­des...

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