Some Thoughts on Overseas Indians from Minorities
It is not a secret that “minorities” receive preferential treatment at our foreign office. The reasons are not hard to fathom: Bharat is a vibrant and plural democracy, and it…
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Hindu sisters Reena and Raveena become face of forced religious conversion in Pakistan
Ajbi Lal sat quietly weeping outside an Islamabad court while she waited to learn if her teenage daughters would be returned to her. People passing by pointed and laughed at…
Hindu Today, Muslim Tomorrow – Reports Of Forced Conversion In Pakistan
For the first 16 years of her life, Ravita Meghwar was a Hindu girl living in a village in Pakistan. But today her name is Gulnaz Shah, and she is…
Forced conversions, marriages spike in Pakistan
Sixteen-year-old Suneeta and her 12-year-old sister were walking home in March when they were kidnapped. The men who took them forced the girls to convert to Islam. “We were walking back…
Minorities in Bharat: Who Decides?
In the year 2017, Sri Ashwini Upadhyay, a lawyer and senior BJP leader had filed a PIL in the Supreme Court of Bharat asking, primarily, for section 2(c) of the National Commission…
Another Underage Pakistani Hindu Girl Forcefully Converted to Islam
A Hindu girl named Komal Meghwar aged around 14 was kidnapped from Golimar, Karachi and converted to Islam. Her family is from Tando Allahyar. Karachi is the capital of the…
Congress Ups the Anti-Hindu Ante in Poll-Bound Karnataka
In under 6 months, Karnataka will be going to the polls. The current Congress Government led by CM Siddaramaiah has under-performed on most counts, although you wouldn’t think so going…
Core and the Rationale Behind Equal Rights for All Institutions
This article is a response to the article titled “Jamia and the Rationale Behind Special Rights for Minority Institutions” published by The Wire on the 22nd of August 2017, in which the…
US Religious Freedom Commission’s “Alternative Facts” Attack Hindu Dharma and Bharat
Last Friday, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a quasi-governmental advisory body, released a new report, Constitutional and Legal Challenges Faced by Religious Minorities in India, authored by…
Secularism in Bharat
The print media reported that the Supreme Court declined to reconsider 1995 order on the meaning of Hindutva and rightly so. But the media quoted the Representation of the People…