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How India celebrates menstruation

Once every year, at Kamakhya, one of the most profound celebrations of womanhood unfolds. The doors of the temple close. Not because of the...

If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women?

If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women? I am sure most of us have come across this line at some...

How did the Muslims justify the destruction of Hindu temples

In his celebrated historical work Kitab al-Yamini, Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbarul-Utbi, who served as the secretary to Mahmud of Ghazni, provides...

The truth about St Xavier that we must know

There are over 230 educational institutions if no less in the name of St Francis Xavier, popularly known as St Xavier, across India. Xavier...

The acknowledgement

Muslim testimonies tell how and why they destroyed Hindu temples

It’s not easy to be Hindu in Bangladesh

Purnima Rani Shil, a 12-year-old Hindu girl, was raped on 8 October 2001. Her fault? That as the polling agent of the Awami League...

Your gateway to revisiting oral traditions

Reimagining the Myths of Himalayan Birds

When Gandhi defended Buddhism against Christianity

If I found myself entirely absorbed in the service of the community, the reason behind it was my desire for self-realization. I had made...

How Communism and Islamism kept Hinduism on defensive

This United Front—Islamism and Communism—functions mostly at a psychological level. But it presents itself as a political alliance also whenever specific issues affecting the...