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Lakhbir Singh, a 35-year-old man was found hanging with a chopped left hand to an inverted police barricade at the Haryana-Delhi Singhu border outside of Delhi on Friday morning. The incident sent shockwaves across the country. Hours later, Nihang Sikhs claimed responsibility for the assault, which brought the spotlight back on the group. 

The demographic imbalance in Uttarakhand has become a cause of concern for the government and the administration of the state. Security agencies are concerned over the fact that there has been an unprecedented increase in the Muslim population in specific areas of the state bordering Nepal, which is seen as problematic.

Secularism seems to require separation between religion and State. Regarding India, itwould be better to speak of ‘equidistance’ between State and religious denominations. Nonetheless a ‘balanced treatment’ towards the religions leaves the question open as to what form that equidistance should take. This is the reason of some contradictions in today’s Indian social and political life. It is likely that without the Moghul and British domination Hinduism would not have acquired a militant identity. It was the ‘epiphany’ of well-armed, powerful ‘Others’ (Muslim, Christian or secular) which generated frustration and fear to such an extent that a religious nationalism (Hindutva) was born.

Today while running through deep searches for some specific content regarding Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi I came across mention of this author Ramchandra Guha. So, when Amazon was showing books written by him, there was this one book which caught my attention immediately "Chipko Movement". Excited to know what this movement was all about as I have never heard of any such andolan before in my life, I started going through many articles and synopsis submitted on the topic.

We have always been told that as a Sanatani, that we pray nature, but does it mean one would be ready to giver his/her life for that? Well, Chipko Movement was one such agitation where women of villages would go and hug tree tightly so that it can not be cut by contractors for commercial purposes. Their intention were very clear "let our bodies be cut, before tree can be touched".

Bollywood and controversies have a strong relation. Whether the talk is about casting couch, decadence, nepotism, bias or connections to the high and mighty, Bollywood has surely for long taken centre stage in the global media.

VARANASI: For the first time, Hinduism will be taught as a subject in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and students will learn ancient knowledge, tradition, arts, science and skills under this course in the University’s Faculty of Arts. The university is starting the Hinduism course of two years with 40 seats. An entrance exam will be held on October 3 to shortlist the students for the course.

Students are the pillars of a nation's future. Swami Vivekananda in his discourses always mentioned that education is the manifestation of perfection that is already within us. So it becomes a deeply painful situation for any society when its students are involved in communal riots. Natasha Narwal, a student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), was arrested on May 30 for her role in communal riots that engulfed Northeast Delhi in February 2020.

Is Indian Muslim community really marginalized? Almost every other week if not month we all hear that socio-economic status of the Muslims in India is worse than any other community. Is it true? Not only do we hear this but we also hear about a report published in 2006 called as Sachar Committee report. Ever since the report was published Mr. Owaisi refers to it every other day.

हमारे देश में शिक्षा व्यवस्था तथा पाठशालाएं अंग्रेजों ने प्रारंभ कीं ऐसा कहा जाता है। अंग्रेज़ों के आने से पहले देश में शिक्षा के मामले में अंधकार ही था, ऐसा भी बताया जाता है। किन्तु सत्य परिस्थिति क्या थी? अंग्रेजों और मुस्लिम आक्रांताओं के आने के पहले भारत में जो शिक्षा पद्धति थी, उसका मुक़ाबला संसार में कहीं भी नहीं था। अत्यंत व्यवस्थित पद्धति से रची गई यह भारतीय शिक्षा व्यवस्था, सभी आवश्यक क्षेत्रों में ज्ञान एवं प्रशिक्षण प्रदान करती थी।

Our India was a slave to the British for about 200 years. India was first ruled by the East India Company from 1757 to 1857 and then the Queen of England reigned till 1947after the first freedom struggle of 1857. The British government realized that the people of India are proud of their ancient culture and that is their glory. The British knew very well that Indians would never be slaves until they were associated with their ancient culture. Then British create a conspiracy to control Indian mindset by creating hatred for their own culture among them because when Britishers first stepped into India they saw that Indians were very rich and they found no beggar in India.