On the last day of the three-day lecture series, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said lynching in the name of the cow is unacceptable. Bhagwat, while answering queries from several in the audience, spoke of several issues, ranging from section 377 to Article 370, from casteism to Hindutva. “Violence is completely unacceptable and strict action should be taken. Gau raksha should be done in a Constitutional way, but gau rakshaks should […]

Ban Friday namaz at Taj Mahal or allow Hindus to pray there too: RSS affiliate Amid an ongoing row over the Taj Mahal a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-linked organisation has now demanded that Friday prayers at the historic monument located in Agra be banned.  Media reports said on Friday that the demand to ban Friday Prayers has come from Akhil Bhartiya Itihaas Sankalan Samiti – the history wing of the RSS. Dr […]

Asserting that like the Hindu society which abolished practices like child marriage, dowry and sati, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that Muslims should mull over putting an end to the triple talaq divorce system. Naidu said it is high time that the Muslim society should introspect and have a healthy discussion on the triple talaq issue in order to give justice to their women. […]

In a spirit of brotherhood, villagers clean Nand Kishore temple in Bandipora for puja. Muslims have cleaned up and organised a puja at a temple and 1,000 specially-designed ‘Herath’ greeting cards have been produced: this Sivaratri, Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims are bonding strongly, and social media is providing the platform to relive past memories. For the first time since hundreds of Pandit families migrated out of the Valley in the […]

In Pic :The young protesters at Dhaka may not be radical chic, but they deserve our cheers WHY DID India react with such tepidness and defensiveness to the Shahbag Square protests in Bangladesh? The reference here is not so much to the response of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) as to civil society, the media and intelligentsia. The government was correct but concise in its approach and its support […]