Hinduism should be practiced according to the laws of nature. This cultural heritage has been handed down from the sages. It is a good sign for the whole world that today the youth are attracted to these cultural things. Hindus should be able to live as Hindus.

Every Hindu needs to perform Panchamahayagya. Coming to one's Guru for spiritual enlightenment is the real Sravani. PadmashriVibhushitDharmabhushanSadguruBrahmeshanandacharyaSwamijienlightened all the Hindu religious people through his blessings that it is necessary to preserve this science-based spiritual tradition started by our sages over the years.

Sri DuttPadmanabhaPeetha, SrikshetraTapobhumiGurupeetha- Goa The "ShravaniVidhi" organized under the divine guidance and guidance of spiritual leader,PadmashriVibhushitDharmabhushanSadguruBrahmeshanandacharyaSwamiji successfullycompleted the occasion on Thursday 11th August 2022.

MLA of PatodaConstituency ShriVijay Sardesaiand MLA of MayeConstituency ShriPremendraShetwere present on this occasion. The aura of the festival was so blissful. Manydevotess had the divine feeling while many get to know more about the culture ofhinduism as well as theSanatanDharma.They also focused on the part of nature which is an intrinsic medium to connect with the One.

On the occasion of this Shravaniritual, Bhavikanahad the privilege of seeing thousands of Hindu devotees at Tapobhoomi.Thousandsof Hindu religious people from Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka as well as national and international levels gathered under thebanner of Main Hindu and Hindu representatives from various fields participated in thisShravani ritual. Rituals likeYajnopavitharan,Havan,Tarpan,Marjan,Sabhadeepdan werecompleted.The program concluded withAartiPasaidan and Mahaprasad.

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A special ardas samagam (prayer congregation) was organised in memory of the people who lost their lives during Partition at Akal Takht.Prayers were also held at other major gurdwaras under Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) management. Earlier, Akhand Path (the continuous and uninterrupted recitation of Guru Granth Sahib) was also carried out and the hazuri ragis jathas Golden Temple performed Gurbani Kirtan.

Hindu and Muslim representatives also attended prayers at Golden Temple.

Gangveer Rathur, who had approached Jathedar with idea of offering prayer, said, It is big step in understanding the pain of partition and its impact on the present and future of Punjab. The future generations need to understand why partition took place.

Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh said that the governments of India and Pakistan should pass condolence resolutions in their Parliaments for the of people who lost lives during Partition. Visas should be granted to them so that they can easily visit their ancestral and religious places. Panjabis suffered the most in Partition followed by Bengalis. People of these two states fought the British fiercely but they were punished by dividing their states and their properties were seized, he said, adding that the pain is still there.

The people want to see their birthplace and want to visit the holy shrines. If stopping Muslims from going to Haj, Hindus from visiting Katas Raj is a crime, Sikhs should also not be stopped from visiting Nankana Sahib and other shrines in Pakistan. Both the countries should take up the matter and grant visas generously to people of every faith to visit their religious shrines, the Jathedar added.

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar addresses mediapersons in Patna

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It should be noted that the main entrance of the world famous Vishnupad temple of Gaya has a 'non-Hindu entry barred' written on it. But Nitish Kumar took the Muslim leader along with him.

The pictures triggered much outrage on social media while BJP attacked the Bihar chief minister for taking such a step. Vishnupad temple secretary Gajadhar Lal Pathak said, "Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visited the temple along with Muslim minister Mansoori which is against our law. It is clearly written that a non-Hindu is not allowed inside the temple premises."

"Nitish Kumar has hurt the sentiments of crores of Hindus. He should apologise to everyone, further action will be after meeting with temple committees," he added.

Taking an opportunity to hit out at its former alliance partner JD(U), BJP MLA Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul said that Mansoori should immediately resign for violating the rules of a holy structure. Nitish Kumar has committed a sin by allowing a Muslim to enter the temple."

At the same time, Mansoori told media said that he was fortunate to have entered the sanctum sanctorum of Vishnupad temple with CM Nitish Kumar.

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With 20 months left for the general elections, a group of seers have drafted a new constitution for a Hindu rashtra, shifting the national capital from New Delhi to Varanasi and disenfranchising Muslim and Christian Indians. With the 11 convicts who raped a pregnant Bilkis Bano and killed her daughter walking out of Godhra jail, preceded in 2018 by former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani being acquitted after first being sentenced to 28 years in jail in the 2002 Narodia Patiya massacre of 97 Muslims, this new constitution may imply that religion overrides justice.

What is even more disturbing is a senior Supreme Court advocate and a so-called defence expert were part of those who drafted this constitution showing a map of akhand (=unified) Bharat which comprises Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar as a single entity. Drafting a Hindu constitution which deprives Muslims and Christians of their right to vote is a criminal offence which attracts three years in jail under sections 153 (a) and (b) of the Indian Penal Code, apart from other penal laws. But the police are keeping mum.

Although it seems farcical, the mechanism for replacing our Constitution with the Hindu one is mystifying. Under this Hindu constitution, Muslims and Christians can work, study, and enjoy all rights except the right to vote. Only the Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs can vote after turning 16 years or contest elections on turning 25. This Hindu constitution totally ruptures the basic structure of our existing Constitution, so those who drafted it have committed a criminal offence.

Criminalising triple talaq obliterated Islamic obscurantism, criminalising beef-eating and conversion to either Islam or Christianity, while allowing reconversion to Hinduism or ghar wapasi were further steps in making India a de facto if not a de jure Hindu state. The alleged dilution of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 by raising the Gyanvapi mosque dispute and the toppling of the Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra on the grounds he had jettisoned hardcore Hindutva already proved India of 2022 is not India of 1950. We are a Hindu state.

Apart from Nepal which was a Hindu monarchy till 2008, there has never been an official Hindu state in Asia. A Muslim has never become prime minister in India nor completed a five-year-term as a chief minister of any Indian state. But India has had a Muslim President and Chief Justice but never a Christian. In a Hindu rashtra, however, only a Hindu will be considered eligible for these top posts.

This Hindu constitution declares 543 members will be elected to the Parliament of Religions which will abolish the British parliamentary system of democracy so that government and parliament will be conducted on the basis of the varna system while the judiciary would have to follow the Treta and Dvapara yugas which seem absurd because all the law records will have to be rewritten in Sanskrit. The varna system is anti-thetical to our Constitution which ensures reservations for the deprived castes and classes. That is why Constitutional morality is the opposite of religious morality.

This new constitution may have the RSS tacit approval but Dr BR Ambedkar in his essay The Annihilation of Caste pointed out the impracticality of enforcing caste or varna in modern government as per the ancient Hindu texts like Manusmriti. This would prove detrimental to the Hindus themselves because not all are Kshatriyas or Brahmins. The ancient Hindu texts insist the Kshatriyas advised by the Brahmin sages must rule the people.

This Hindu constitution declares the Gurukul education system will teach ayurveda, mathematics, nakshatra, bhu-garbha (whatever that might mean) and astrology while it is not clear if western physics, chemistry, biology or medicine will be taught. Every citizen will get compulsory military training like Israel, just as the youth of the Bajrang Dal are trained to use weapons. Agriculture will be totally tax-free. Whether the penal law of this utopian Hindu state will follow that of the ancient dharmasastras or that of the law-giver Manu remains unclear.

What makes all this fascinating is the fact that an advocate from the Supreme Court had earlier petitioned the judges to delete the word secular from the preamble of the Constitution because it was introduced by Indira Gandhi in 1976. This petition is still pending in the apex court but this advocate has been rewarded by the Sanathan Sanstha at Ponda in Goa as a saint for working selflessly for the Hindu cause. His son is an advocate-on-record in the apex court which implies this father-son duo have a sound grasp of modern law.

There is no doubt that India is now a Hindu state, which has departed from Nehruvian socialism as the preamble proclaims, because the existing fundamental rights such as freedom of religion for Christians was diluted by criminalising propagation of their faith under the Freedom of Religion laws. Poor Muslims right to livelihood was effaced by banning cattle slaughter even before 2014 during the Congress regime. Today, the so-called secular Constitution with its laws and policies eroded the rights of minorities in innovative ways.

Theoretically, these changes are reversible because the basic structure of the Constitution remains intact. The emphasis on individual freedoms, civil liberties and fundamental rights has shifted away from the citizen contravening the wishes of the first Constituent Assembly. But with a Hindu government in power at the centre and in the states, the state has been given power to curtail even the fundamental right to life and liberty which is why the 11 rapists have had their life sentences commuted by the Gujarat government. They were seen being feted and garlanded.

We have to accept that Hindutva is a sinister species of Hinduism because it is Hindutva and not Hinduism which demonises Muslims as the eternal enemy within, followed closely by the Christians. This new Hindu constitution has done what our sovereign Parliament cannot do which is to override the Constitution enacted 75 years ago with 395 articles, eight schedules and 22 parts.

This is why religion is regarded by the poor as true, by the wise as false and by those who govern us as a useful tool to fool everybody.

The writer holds a PhD in law and is a senior journalist and advocate at the Bombay High Court

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In the Hindu majoritarian atmosphere of India today, liberals have been scorned as out-of-touch, Westernised elites, alienated and disconnected from the pulse of a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. They have been branded as being inauthentically Indian, hostile towards Hinduism, and anti-national.

Indian liberals have long suffered from crises of identity and legitimacy. Architect of the Indian Constitution BR Ambedkar wondered aloud whether liberal democracy would be only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic.

However, as India celebrates its 75th anniversary of independence, it is important to remember that the nation was built on a solidly liberal foundation. Liberalism constitutes modern Indias original political ideology.

Its champions were not self-serving elites: they constructed an increasingly universal and democratic vision of rights and freedoms which would bridge Indias religious, ethnic, and linguistic faultlines. These politicians nurtured liberal roots in Indian society, which are far deeper, stronger, and more pervasive than meets the eye.

To understand these roots, we must return to the 19th century, well before the generation of MK Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru which led India to independence. It was here that Indian leaders steered emerging politics onto a thoroughgoing liberal trajectory.

The 19th century was a moment of horror, humiliation, and hopelessness for most Indians. Indias textile manufacturing economy largely collapsed, leading to mass impoverishment. Indian political authority and agency crumbled as the British Raj consolidated its control of the subcontinent. Tens of millions died from a spate of devastating famines: the British journalist William Digby estimated that the death toll was at least 28.8 million for just the period between 1854 and 1901.

Yet Indias first modern political leaders did not throw up their hands in despair. Instead of hate, they offered hope, looking to contemporary Western politics for solutions. Reformer Rammohun Roy was the first to imbibe Western liberal ideas of rights and freedoms and put them in an Indian context. With the encouragement of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, he was even prepared to represent India as an MP in the British Parliament to pave the way for his countrymen. By the 1850s, Indians formed their first modern political associations, petitioning the British Parliament for political reform.

On paper, their demands could seem moderate, hemmed in with cloying language about the benefits of British rule. But it was clear that many of them had more ambitious goals in mind. As early as 1859, Bhau Daji Lad, a Bombay doctor and civic leader, declared at a public meeting that the time will surely come when that first principle of free governments shall be introduced with safety into India. India would be a nation of free men.

Indian liberals clamoured for representative government. Instead of marginalising certain groups or promoting majoritarianism, they sought out political systems which would reflect Indias diversity. Liberals therefore scrutinised governing models employed around the world.

In 1867, WC Bonnerjee, fresh from having qualified as a barrister from Londons Middle Temple, looked to the United States for inspiration. He suggested a bicameral Indian assembly which, per the American model, could have veto power over the executive branch in this case, the British viceroy.

Bonnerjee, who in 1885 would become the first president of the Indian National Congress, pointed to traditional panchayats to argue that ordinary Indians possessed the capacity for self-government. To understand the people, you must go to them direct, he stated. You will find that they possess a remarkable degree of intelligence.

He rubbished the idea, propounded by many colonial officials, that Indias religious diversity and Hindu-Muslim tensions in particular would make representative government unworkable. Indians, Bonnerjee maintained, were united by a common nationality.

While they did not advocate anything approaching universal enfranchisement hardly a mainstream idea in the 19th century Indian liberals envisioned a robust, expansive future electorate for the country. They did not simply advance the interests of their fellow English-educated elites.

Allan Octavian Hume the founder of the Congress, a Scotsman who identified as a native of India designed an electoral system for Congress representatives which incorporated a wide cross-section of the Indian peasantry and accommodated minority representation. By 1887, this electorate numbered three million more than the electoral turnout at British parliamentary elections, Hume was quick to point out.

At its 1889 session, the Congress included female delegates a radical departure, at the time, for any political organisation worldwide and featured a brief debate on Indian female suffrage. Despite deep-set patriarchal norms in India, many liberals expressed remarkably progressive ideas about womens rights.

Dadabhai Naoroji argued for gender equality in India and actively campaigned for female suffrage in Britain. In 1917, two years before the United States gave women the right to vote, the Congress selected as its president Annie Besant, the fiery Anglo-Irish matriarch.

The Congress advocated a multi-pronged agenda of comprehensive reform, keeping in mind the poverty and destitution of the average Indian. Its leaders railed against corruption in the police force, worked towards empowered municipal bodies, and fought against systemic discrimination in the judicial system.

Congress politicians championed universal education, vocational and industrial training, and policies to stimulate industry and commerce. They thought in big, bold terms, suggesting the establishment in India of cutting-edge educational institutions modeled on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics.

In contrast to India today, where the medias independence has eroded, liberals who cut their teeth as journalists and newspaper editors were staunch defenders of freedom of the press and freedom of speech. They pushed back against government censorship, and some of them, like Surendranath Banerjea, editor of the Bengalee of Calcutta, went to jail for their outspokenness. It was in newspaper columns that Indians spoke truth to power, attempting to hold their colonial rulers to account.

At the same time, liberals used the press to inform Indians about the rest of the world. While intensely proud of their country, they did not possess a smug satisfaction about Indias innate civilisational superiority.

Instead, they believed that India had much to learn from other societies. Sant Nihal Singh (who, with great literary flourish, anglicised his first name to Saint or St), became Indias first roving world correspondent, translating his travels into lessons for his fellow Indians.

Surveying Meiji Japans achievements, he impressed upon Indians the importance of universal education and womens rights. In the American South, he visited the Hampton Institute, the black college which counted Booker T Washington, a prominent Black leader and adviser to US presidents, among its alumni, and pleaded for a similar institution to be founded in India to promote agricultural and industrial education.

Liberals were not hostile towards Indias religions. Far from it: many were deeply religious, and several were authorities on Hinduism and Sanskrit literature. But they were, by and large, not bigots. They celebrated the glories of Indias past, but they could be quite clear-eyed and realistic about pseudo-historical fantasies, the kind of which have gained increased traction in recent years.

We cannot afford to be dreamy and self-contained, and turn back from our present opportunities to a past which cannot be recalled, judge and reformer Mahadev Govind Ranade, himself a noted expert on Maratha history, remarked in 1893.

Admittedly, Indian liberalism had numerous blind spots. Public enthusiasm for social reform and womens rights did not always translate into practice in their homes. Despite strenuous efforts to broaden their base, the liberals achieved nothing like Gandhis success after 1919 in generating popular enthusiasm for nationalism.

Most egregiously, liberals could be quite dismissive about caste discrimination and the plight of lower castes and Dalits. In my own research, I have been struck by the sheer absence of these issues in the writings and correspondence of many liberal leaders.

That being said, liberals did accomplish one remarkable achievement: setting out a vision for India which was inclusive, democratic, and relatively open-minded. This vision was further nurtured by Gandhi, Nehru, and Ambedkar. It survived the horrors of Partition, the many unfulfilled promises of Indian independence, and lurches towards authoritarianism like Indira Gandhis Emergency.

On the 75th anniversary of its independence, however, it remains to be seen how much longer that original liberal vision of India will last.

Dinyar Patel is Assistant Professor, History, at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.

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On August 8, six Dalit Christian women were arrested by police in Uttar Pradeshs Azamgarh on charges that they were forcefully converting people of the Hindu faith into Christianity. The police acted on a complaint filed by a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) member who accused them of luring others with money to take up the Christian faith.

What happened in Uttar Pradesh is nothing new or unusual, nor will it be the last such incident. Be it Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, or anywhere else in the country, Hindutva outfits are ever ready to cry wolf over what they call forced conversions or forced mass conversions.

Also read: Over 300 Instances of Violence Against Christians Were Reported in Nine Months of 2021: Report

Every time the question of someone accepting the Christian faith comes to the fore in India, even the popular perception is that the person concerned has converted either only under duress or due to some inducement. This view is not just held by zealous Hindu fundamentalists, who unleash violence on members of the Christian community, but even by those who swear no allegiance to the Hindutva ideology. In popular parlance, therefore, the word converted assumes a pejorative connotation, for the crossover to the Christian faith in India is always believed to have taken place unconsciously and unwillingly by converts.

A March 25, 2015 photo shows a protest against anti-Christian violence in the country. Photo: Reuters

At one level, the reason for such a view to gain currency is the myth peddled by the anti-Christian brigade which alleges that mass conversions would result in a sizeable number of Hindus accepting Christianity. On the other hand, implicit in such a view is a casteist angle, the perception of it being a foreign religion, andthe ignorance of the evolution of the faith and its contemporary form in India.

Dent to the Hindu demography?

The view that mass conversions are affecting the preponderance of Hindus in the country is a factoid rather than a fact.

According to the data available from Census, the size of the Christian community relative to the countrys population has either been static or been on the decline since 1971. The 1971 Census estimated that Christians accounted for 2.6% of Indias population. By 2001, this figure dropped to 2.3%. While the religious composition of 2011 Census figures has never been released, leaked data has shown that there has been a further decline in the size of the community.

On the contentious issue of religious conversion, a Pew research report released in June 2021, notes that it is rare for someone in India to make a switch from one religion to another.

An overall pattern of stability in the share of religious groups is accompanied by little net change from movement into, or out of, most religious groups. Among Hindus, for instance, any conversion out of the group is matched by conversion into the group, the report underlines.

The report was based on a survey carried out among nearly 30,000 Indians from various religious backgrounds. Among Hindus, for instance, any conversion out of the group is matched by conversion into the group: 0.7% of respondents say they were raised Hindu but now identify as something else, and roughly the same share (0.8%) say they were notraised Hindu but now identify as Hindu, the report notes.

Also read: Complicity of Police; Forced Conversion a Myth: PUCL on Attacks on Christians in Karnataka

However, these estimates still do not convince many about the myth of mass conversions. Nobody, including Christians themselves, believes the official figures, nor what surveys portray on the size of the community in the country. This is because a large number of them are crypto Christians, for they officially present themselves as Hindus while practicing their Christian faith privately. This dual identity is essential for Christians populating Indias hinterlands to face a host of social and economic challenges that arise from the time they accept the Christian faith.

Even if we were to include the crypto Christians, the population size of the community would still not be anywhere near what the peddlers of the mass conversion myth portray. According to statisticians Todd Johnson and Kenneth Ross, Christians account for 4.8% of Indias population. Some, including Jason Mandryk, puts it at 5.84%. At best, the community in India can be termed as a mini or minuscule minority, relative to other minority religious groups.

However, for many Indians, their flawed perceptions about the community blind them from seeing the reality on the ground. As a result, they make outlandish claims and raise a false alarm about the Christian missionary mafia taking over India.

For instance, recently an English-educated upper caste Hindu young man from a metro city, who presented himself as a liberal (I-have-Christian-and-Muslim-friends), told this writer that Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (a practicing Christian) was giving Rs 50,000 per person in his state to convert Hindus into Christianity. Not only is this a falsehood, but it is laughable, for it even defies any common sense. It is surprising that a politician as shrewd as Reddy would be more interested in increasing the headcount of Christians by putting his political future at stake at a time when extra vigilant Hindutva outfits are eagerly ready to expose any such attempts. In reality, such a view is reflective of the contempt a large section of our society has for a practicing Christian who is a chief minister.

This anti-Christian sentiment, therefore, is not just confined to Hindu fundamentalists but runs deep in our society, portraying Christians as a community whose sole purpose in their lives is to proselytise and see their numbers grow.

Members of Christian community and supporters hold placards during a protest rally against the Anti-Conversion bill, which was tabled yesterday during the Winter Session of Karnataka Legislative Assembly, in Bengaluru, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. Photo: PTI.

Social realities of the community

This suspicious and contemptuous view of the community is also reflected in various judgments and laws passed in Independent India. From 1977 when the Supreme Court in Rev Ft Stanislaus v State of Madhya Pradesh case upheld Madhya Pradeshs anti-conversion law to a string of such laws enacted in 14 Indian states with more teeth recently, the practice and propagation of Christian faith in India can attract criminal charges. The fact these laws clearly violate Article 25 of the Indian constitution which allows individuals the liberty to profess, practice and propagate their religion freely does not seem to apply in the case of the Christian community.

Also read: India 10th Most Dangerous Country to Live in for Christians: Report

Whether by design or otherwise, such laws are paradoxically called the freedom of religion act in most states where such laws exist. Something as simple and private as accepting and practicing faith now requires potential converts to go through a convoluted bureaucratic process. They now have to give advance notice to district magistrates explaining the real intent behind such conversion. The proof of burden strangely rests with the person who wishes to convert rather than with those who accuse them of forced conversion. Failing to do so can attract criminal charges which make it a non-bailable offence, requiring them to cough up hefty penalties and serve jail terms.

The rising attacks against Christians can be safely described as attacks on Dalits and the marginalised of this country. As many as 74% of Indian Christians belong to lower castes, and Dalits and Tribals together account for 57%. Given that Dalits who accept Christianity are stripped of their access to reservations as they lose Scheduled Caste status (only officially, but socially still face the humiliation as Dalits), they face double discrimination both for their faith and their social location.

What many get wrong about Indian Christianity today is that they still view it as a foreign religion, relying excessively on overseas contributions for its survival. However, a large part of the contemporary Indian Church has long delinked its connections with the West.

A number of churches and prayer halls in remote parts of India do not in any way claim association with any pope or papacy, or any diocese or archbishop. They are established with limited means pooled in from the small faithful congregations in their own villages. All they can promise is a sense of community and spiritual well-being but nothing in terms of material benefits (inducements). Most of them hold prayer meetings in makeshift tents or tin-roofed rooms, reflecting their own socio-economic conditions. No doubt large-scale Christian organisations still do exist, but their hold and influence on the Indian Christian community have declined greatly.

This is because these charismatic or new-age churches are an outward projection of the democratisation that has taken place in the Indian Christendom. Unlike in Hinduism where the priesthood is still an exclusive privilege of one community, in Christianity, one does not have to belong to or have a certain level of educational qualifications to become clergy in their churches. Often, they empower men and women of all age groups and social statuses to interpret the Biblical doctrine and preach to their brethren in their local language and idiom and connect it to their own physical world. However, one must also bear in mind that this is limited to the spiritual realm while their social lives are still plagued by caste realities.

Therefore, in reality, the bogey of mass conversion is indicative of collective frustration and insecurity on the part of Hindutva outfits at the perceived injustice to and rejection of the Hindu faith by some converts. The stark reality, however, is that Christianity in India in no way poses a threat to the demographic and philosophical might of Hinduism. But the political ideology of Hindutva leverages this paranoia for electoral purposes to consolidate Hindus (often divided along caste lines) in the name of religion.

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New Delhi Majnu ka Tila area in Delhi is inhabited by Hindus who came to India from Pakistan. These Hindus moved here in 2011, Since then many leaders came and made various promises. Since then, many leaders came and gave various promises but none of them were fulfilled, the refugee Hindus said. On the one hand, there was talk of providing flats with all facilities to the Rohingya Muslim infiltrators, but nothing was given to us. Such regret is being expressed by them. 145 Hindu families are living in this place.

1. In India, however, Hindus who own farms in the Sindh provinces are now forced to sell mobile phone covers. They say that the Government has not helped us in the last 10 years. Basic facilities such as water, electricity, etc. have not been provided. After the Court order, electricity has started 3 months ago and water has started last year. They said that 1-2 Hindu organizations have helped.

2. Some said that they were able to come to India after getting a visa from Pakistan. Many of them who could not get visas are suffering torture in Pakistan.

3. Women here refuse to allow their photographs to be taken by journalists, fearing that if their photographs are published, they will be identified and their relatives in Pakistan will suffer.

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Temples are the forts of Hinduism. We read in the books of history how Brihadeeswara Temple in Tanjore, Sreekalahasti Temple in Kalahasti, Ramappa Temple in Hanamkonda etc were built by different emperors of those times.

Like Kakatiyas, Cholas, Pallavas and Vijayanagara Kings the name of Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhara Rao can never be erased as long as Hindu temples exist on this planet.

This is really a Herculean task to build a temple investing such huge amounts from the government exchequer in these democracy days. Only KCR could do this, without even asking for donations like others did for building other big temples.

Moreover, the temple was built in such a style with unbeatable ancient technology that it can withstand nature for millennia. The Krishna Shila used for this temple was brought from Guntur and Prakasam districts of Andhra Pradesh.

Another interesting fact is that the labor worked for bringing these stones are about 600 and 80 of them are from Muslim fraternity. Not only that many of Muslim sculptors worked on making some statues and designs on these rocks.

KCR never kept anybody around him at bay in the name of caste, creed and religion. He is the real democratic leader with the aura of bygone emperors who ruled this soil.

KCR released about Rs 1000 Cr in six years for building this temple with the incessant hard work of countless sculptors and architects day and night.

The situation of Yadagiri Gutta was not so pleasant until a few years ago. The roads used to be very bad and the surroundings were filled with filth and hygiene. The one acre temple premises has now become 14 acres. The roads are immaculate and the aesthetics are meticulous. The greenery and guest houses are pleasant.

Yadadri has now become the Tirumala of Telangana. KCR deserves all kinds of praises as he built not only the temple but also made Mallanna Sagar Reservoir and Kaleshwaram project within eight years of his rule.

The newly built Yadadri Temple is open from today for the devotees.

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New Delhi, March 27

A PIL in the Supreme Court has demanded a special investigation team (SIT) to identify those responsible for the alleged genocide of Hindus and Sikhs in Jammu and Kashmir during 1989-2003.

Filed by We the Citizens, the petition seeks a census of Hindu and Sikh victims/survivors of the genocide to identify and rehabilitate them.

It is the second petition on the issue in the top court in the past one week. It demands that the sale of properties after the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs in January 1990 whether religious, residential, agricultural, commercial, institutional, educational or any other immovable property be declared null and void.

The NGO says it has done research by going through books, articles and memoirs of migrants from Kashmir, including My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir by former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Jagmohan and Our Moon Has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita, with a first-hand account of the genocide and exodus of Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs in 1990. The failure of the then government and police administration and finally the breakdown of the constitutional machinery have been explained in these books. The then government and state machinery did not act at all to protect the life and limb of Hindus and Sikhs and allowed anti-nationals, terrorists and anti-social elements to take control of entire Kashmir. As a result, Hindu and Sikhs citizens lost faith in the government and were forced to migrate to other parts of India, the public interest litigation (PIL) reads.

Earlier, Kashmiri Pandits organisation Roots in Kashmir had moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored investigation by the CBI/NIA or a court-appointed agency into the alleged mass murder and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir during 1989-90, saying the Jammu and Kashmir Police had miserably failed in making any progress on the hundreds of FIRs pending with them.

In a curative petition in the top court, it questioned the courts 2017 order dismissing a petition for a probe into alleged ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits. Curative petitions are generally not taken up in open court and are heard by circulation among the members of the Bench.

The instances referred in the petition pertain to the year 1989-90 and more than 27 years have passed by since then. No fruitful purpose would emerge as the evidence is unlikely to be available at this late juncture, the top court had said in its April 27, 2017, order.

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After his controversial clip of condescending remarks against Hindus went viral, The Maulvi from Rajauri has issued a statement for his hate speech in a much calm demeanour. On Friday, the Maulavi was seen issuing threats to filmmakers and Hindus saying that they will have face consequences if they do not stop screening the movie The Kashmir Files, in an address over the Jumma Namaz.

After his snides on the Hindu community and threats on The Kashmir Files were called out by people on social media, the Maulavi has now issued clarification for his remarks. In a recorded video, he has now asserted that Kashmiri Pandits are the pride and prestige of the valley and without them Kashmir is incomplete. We requested the current dispensation that a recent film which has showcased atrocities on our Kashmiri Pandit brothers should be taken down. It has shown only one side of the story and would hence create rifts in society. While my full statements werent shown in the video, I was misquoted by some people. I did not mean to offend any particular caste or religion.

In an issued video message he stated, Although if my comments have hurt someone then I duly apologise. I was not referring to any particular religion. However, he stood by his stance that the films like The Kashmir Files should not be released. Being an excellently received film across the globe, the film has resonated with people with its honest and truthful portrayal of the Kashmiri Hindu Genocide in 1990. The film has collected over Rs 220 crore until Saturday.

While addressing a gathering at a mosque in Jammu, in an enraged tone, said Maulvi Farooq was heard stating, Dont you agree that the movie The Kashmir Files should be banned? There should be restrictions on this movie. We(Muslims) are peace-loving people, we intend to keep the country peaceful.

He went further targeting, We have ruled this country for 800 years, however, you (Hindus) came to power just 70 years ago. You want to target us. The reality is you will face death and consequences, but you cannot do anything to Kalma-chanting Muslims.

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