There are more than 8.4 million Buddhists in India and 87% of them are converts from other religions, mostly Dalits who changed religion to escape Hindu caste oppression. The remaining 13% of Buddhists belong to traditional communities of the northeast and northern Himalayan regions....
A year ago, the Prime Minister had admonished the gau rakshaks (cow vigilantes) in no uncertain terms. He did so again last Thursday, but even as he was speaking a mob was killing a man suspected of carrying beef in Jharkhand, which is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)....
Muslims were the target of 51% of violence centred on bovine issues over nearly eight years (2010 to 2017) and comprised 86% of 28 Indians killed in 63 incidents, according to an IndiaSpend content analysis of the English media....
The recent rise in the electability of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as Britain's next Prime Minister, according to the latest opinion polls, has not made headline news. This is not surprising because Establishments everywhere, of which the media is a part, imagine that an idea can be made to vanish by playing it down....
Thousands carrying placards reading “Not in my name†sang songs and lit candles in several cities, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and London, according to reports. It included film actors in pouring rain in Mumbai. Billboards read: Break the Silence; No place for Islamophobia; Shed Hate not Blood....
Cardinal Pell has been charged by Australian police on multiple counts of sexual abuse. He will appear before a Melbourne court on July 18. He says the charges are false and is "looking forward finally to having my day in court."...
Even as people in the United States seem to have come to terms with the presidency of Donald Trump -- protests over, sloganeering subdued and hostility forgotten -- this book by a reputed professor at American University reignites the flames of resentment as it makes a curious case for Trump's impeachment....
Congress-led opposition candidate Meira Kumar on Tuesday said the presidential election is being fought on the basis of ideology and not caste and expressed pain at only the caste of her and ruling NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind being discussed, but not their achievements and qualities....
A Sikh couple in Britain were refused permission to adopt a white child here because of their "cultural heritage" and were instead advised to adopt a child from India....
If hugs and handshakes are markers to personal and bilateral relationships, then the first get-to-know meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump seems to have been singularly successful....
