Source: Associated Press By AMRIT DHILLON NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi described his first term as “filling in potholes” — shorthand for addressing the country’s basic […]
Source: The Atlantic BY Jonah Blank VARANASI, India—The seven pandits draped in cloth of gold are clearly competing against the five in saffron. In front of thousands of assembled pilgrims, […]
Source: Reuters BY Mayank Bhardwaj AYODHYA, India (Reuters) – A thumping election win for India’s Hindu nationalist party on Thursday has instilled a sense of resignation among Muslims, some of whom […]
Source: The New York Times By Mujib Mashal VARANASI, India — It was 4 a.m. at the Yadav family home down a narrow lane in Varanasi, the constituency of the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Joanna Slater and Niha Masih NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party won a landslide victory in the world’s largest election as voters endorsed his vision […]
Source: Associated Press By EMILY SCHMALL NEW DELHI (AP) — The man in the saffron robe sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, back to the wall of a cave framed […]
Source: The Nation By Ruchira Gupta On Thursday, India will announce election results that could put the country’s 200 million Muslims in danger. Over the last five and a half weeks, […]
Source: Reuters BY Krishna N. Das, Zeba Siddiqui, Aftab Ahmed NAYABANS, India (Reuters) – Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when their children played with […]
Source: The Guardian Indian elections are a marvel to behold. The rules stipulate that no citizen should have to travel more than 2km to vote. So the state goes to […]
Source: The New York Times By Vindu Goel and Shaikh Azizur Rahman BOGAKHALI, India — Riya Mondal could not stop crying. Standing in front of the burned-out shell of her family’s home […]
Source: Reuters BY Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Hindu temple on a disputed site, life in jail for killing cows and ending the autonomy of India’s only […]
Source: Reuters BY Anuja Jaiman NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Five days after a suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF personnel in February in the Kashmir Valley, playwright and director Abhishek Majumdar […]
Source: Reuters By Zeba Siddiqui BHOPAL, India (Reuters) – For nearly a decade, Pragya Thakur was known mostly as the saffron-clad Hindu ascetic shuttling in and out of Indian courts, flanked […]
May 23, 2019 By Alasdair Pal and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI/AYODHYA (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi scored a dramatic election victory on Thursday, putting his Hindu nationalist party […]
By Vineet Khare; BBC Hindi, Uttarakhand A helpless anger pervades the Dalit community in the remote Indian village of Kot. Last month, a group of upper-caste men allegedly beat up […]
May 21, 2019 (reuters_tickers) By Krishna N. Das, Zeba Siddiqui and Aftab Ahmed NAYABANS, India (Reuters) – Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a […]
Source: BBC News With an increase in hate crimes against Muslims in India in recent years, some fear the world’s largest democracy is becoming dangerously intolerant under the Hindu nationalist […]
Source: BBC News Video by Aakriti Thapar and Pooja Agarwal Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called himself the “watchman” of the nation, as part of an election campaign on securing […]
Source: NPR By LAUREN FRAYER Before dawn, men gather in a suburban Mumbai park to play team-building games, meditate, chant Sanskrit mantras from Hindu scripture and salute a saffron-orange flag […]
Source: Religion News Service By Brooke Thames KOCHI, India (RNS) — In the dirt courtyard of St. Teresa’s Women’s College, in this port city in the southern Indian state of Kerala, […]