At Burdwan village Muslims join Hindus in celebrating Lakshmi Puja
Communal harmony was on display in East Burdwan where Muslims, over the decades, have been participating in Lakshmi Puja with the Hindu families for three consecutive days.
Communal harmony was on display in East Burdwan where Muslims, over the decades, have been participating in Lakshmi Puja with the Hindu families for three consecutive days.
Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds is an idiom that summarises Pakistan’s consistent tryst with religiosity.
Remembering Vidyasagar’s health care service for the Santal people of Karmatar, a little known village in the Jamtara Sadar Subdivision of present day Jharkhand state, may be a fitting tribute to him on his 204th birth anniversary.
Jaleel asked what reforms “Malappuram lovers” expect to implement in the Muslim community if they fail to address this issue.
Over the last ten years, the global community and media have persistently highlighted the extensive atrocities inflicted by China upon its minority groups, particularly the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government last week abolished religion-based reservations by scrapping 4 per cent reservation given to Muslims in Karnataka under the 2B of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category.
Superficial concerns have been raised both within and outside the UK about the status of the Muslim population, though the census statistics convey something positive.
Ramadan provides an internal retreat where the mind and its natural ‘thirst‘ for knowledge, awakening and reason is given greater precedence over the physical needs and desires of the body needs which are regularly served but rarely satisfied. Human desire in its bare essence is animalistic and somewhat selfish. It has been the evolution of teachings of faith that has kept in check much of our primitive need for constant self-gratification
An affidavit submitted in the high court on the flogging of Muslims during Navratri last year, Kheda district police officials have said that the public flogging of the detained Muslims was carried out to maintain peace and harmony in the area.
People belonging to different faiths greeted their Christian brethren on occasion.
