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Chief of India’s ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi (L) worships artists dressed as Hindu Gods Rama and Laxman during the Dussehra festival celebrations in New Delhi October 21, 2007

MUMBAI, India (Reuters) – Two of India’s best loved epics about gods, demons and cataclysmic wars are making a comeback on Indian television, hoping to recreate with [...]

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Sangh Parivar activists arrested for blasts in RSS office

The cat is finally out of the bag. In numerous bomb blasts that have taken place in the country, the investigating agencies as well as the media swoop on certain Muslim organisations and brand them as terrorists, who perpetrated the ghastly crime.

Irrespective of whether the crime has [...]

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Author of this article,  Praful Patel is an Ugandan national of Indian origin. He is currently working as the Vice President, South Asia Region of the  World Bank. He is sharing his views about poverty in India, which he witnessed during his recent visit to Gujarat, a state ruled by India’s extremist Hindu nationalists. Gujarat [...]

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Hindu leaders in Udipi seek ban for monk who went abroad
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) – Conservative Hindu leaders in the pilgrim town of Udipi in Karnataka are seeking to prevent a monk from heading one of the country’s most popular temples saying he had become “impure” because he had travelled overseas.
The debate has divided [...]

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Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Children younger than 6 years of age account for a sixth of India’s population, and yet just 1 percent of the federal government’s budget is spent on them.
In a country where a quarter of the population is estimated to live on $1 a day or less, lack of state funding is [...]

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