Noakhali riots

"And so when the news came that they have been stopped at last in one place and that 400 of them had died, I felt that the balance had been very slightly righted," Nehru had written.

Jawaharlal Nehru had expressed relief after security forces killed 400 Hindu peasants protesting against Noakhali massacre in 1946, said it balances mob violence

Today on the 75th anniversary of horrific 'Direct Action Day', Rabindranath Dutta, a survivor recalled the brutality Islamists had inflicted on innocent Hindu women during those days.

Scroll and The Swaddle columnist Genesia Alves not only justified violence unleashed upon Hindus in Bangladesh by an Islamist mob for celebrating the Hindu festival Vijayadashami/Dussehra but also gave 'context' to the same justification.

A frenzied mob of radical Islamists attacked ISKCON temple in the Noakhali district in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh.

Videos have emerged where violent Muslim mobs are seen pelting stones at makeshift Durga Puja pandals in Bangladesh. There are also reports of rampant loot and molestations.