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Delhi’s Chandni Chowk temple vandalism has broken the hearts of BJP supporters

Abhishek Banerjee - 3 July, 2019

The otherwise outspoken CM of Delhi is silent on Delhi temple desecration, but so what? There is no joke bigger than him anyway.

Opinions

The not-so-syncretic Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb and the false wails of how ‘Sanghis’ turned Urdu into a ‘Muslim language’

kabirpandit - 1 July, 2019

Often one sees 'liberals invoking Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or the Syncretic Hindu Muslim culture of North India every time they hear the idea of New India. In reality, they see it as an attack on anything Muslim by the BJP.

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: In an initiative taken by local BJP MLA, Hindus gift burial ground to Muslims in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff - 30 June, 2019

Some people of the Muslim community said that Muslim should also show equal sensibility and stop politicising and staking claims on the disputed Ayodhya Rambhoomi site

Law

In a first, a Delhi court convicts a man for bursting crackers on Diwali

OpIndia Staff - 26 June, 2019

The Delhi police had booked him under Section 188 CrPC for disobeying their orders by continuing to burst crackers despite issuing a warning.

Crime

Mirzapur: Mob beats up young man going to temple, Sunauvvar Ali and others arrested

OpIndia Staff - 26 June, 2019

Speaking to OpIndia, a police official confirmed that three accused, namely, Sonu, son of Maksood, Sunauvvar Ali, and Waheed have been arrested for attacking and beating up the young man.

Government and Policy

34 Pakistani migrant Hindus from 3 districts of Rajasthan granted Indian citizenship

OpIndia Staff - 24 June, 2019

19 from Barmer, 10 people from Pali and 5 from Jalore district were granted Indian citizenship in Rajasthan last week.

Opinions

No Prakash Javadekar, ‘Jai Shree Ram’ is not an ‘Indian cheer’, it’s a manifestation of the Hindu faith. Don’t cheapen it

Nupur J Sharma - 23 June, 2019

Unless the remainder of the interview to Times Now which is yet to be released gives a different picture of Javadekarr's answer, he came off as a defensive, confused man who couldn't stand by his or his party's faith.

Opinions

The elite apathy of self-consumed Indians and self-identified ‘South Asians’

Guest Author - 15 June, 2019

The truth is that none of this lot feels a thing when the name Hindu is napalmed, no, irradiated like Chernobyl actually, because it doesn't affect them much.

News Reports