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A Hindu Identity, Conversions, Missionaries in India, Distortions, Misrepresentation about Hinduism, Hindu Dharma, Hindu Social System »

[1 Apr 2008 | 11 Comments | 60 views]

Some of you probably read 20,000 Christians threaten to revert to Hinduism but today I came across 12 Lakh Vanniya Christians “contemplating” reverting to Hinduism (by A.V. Ragunathan):   
VILLUPURAM: Over 12 lakh Vanniya Christians in Tamil Nadu will revert to Hinduism if they do not get a fair deal from the church.
The church, that has not taken any worthwhile measures to abolish caste discrimination, should not put the blame on the Vanniya Christians for creating divisions within the flock, C. Arokkiadas, founder of the Vanniya Christhava Sangham, told The?Hindu.
The Christians were verily divided …

Godhra, Indian Media, Politics and Governance in India, Politics of Minority Appeasement, Ram Janambhoomi, Ayodhya »

[1 Apr 2008 | 24 Comments | 3 views]

As the Supreme Court asked the Narendra Modi government to set up a Special Investigiation Team to probe the major Godhra riot cases, I came across this article, “A Requiem for Godhra“ by U. Narayana Das. Below are some excerpts (emphasis mine):
Excerpts:
“….When the whole body is on fire, the victim is “beyond exhaustion,  locked into a private world where all existence is a miasma” to use a  popular novelist’s quaint description of pain and “the will to survive ceases”, to invert his expression. The body prays the good lord to end it all!
…This was …