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Osho: The God is dead; Long live the God

Shantanu Guha Ray - May 30, 2022

Crowds have thinned at the abode of Osho, the Indian guru with piercing eyes who called his commune the IBM of peace and love. Only...

How Christian missionaries appropriate Hindu religion for conversions

Bhumika Arora - September 7, 2021

The Christian missionaries had converted thousands of Hindus by spending crores of rupees for decades in India. It continues to do so in the...

Sikhs, Hindus are fleeing en masse from Afghanistan; But anti-CAAers can’t see their plight

Newsbred Staff - September 28, 2020

The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protestors have accused the Indian state of discriminating against Muslims. But these synchronized protests have no answer why their...

For a few in the family, the Independence Day carries little meaning

Sanjay K. Sharma - August 15, 2020

A sudden call from across the border took Gian Chand by surprise. His close relatives, his uncles (Chachas), settled in Pakistan were visiting India...

Europe, India and the limits of secularism

Ashish Shukla - January 18, 2019

Two years ago, on one fine afternoon, I happened to run into a congregation by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, an Islamic organization, at Kolkata. The volunteers were...

Why Vedas are critical for modern world

Ashish Shukla - September 13, 2016

This is the second and concluding part of an interview with Subhash Kak, a famous Indologist on Vedic sciences and mathematics. The first part can...

‘Lord Rama not a mythical character’

Ashish Shukla - May 13, 2016

Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar died on this day—May 13—in 1950. One of India’s greatest archaeologist, Bhandarkar unearthed the entire city of Nagari in Chittorgarh district...