If one looks at mass conversions in India over the last four decades, a large number of Dalits are embracing not just Buddhism but also Islam and Christianity.
Many from Yadgir district's Dalit community are adopting BR Ambedkar’s Buddhism which focuses on social justice. Over 100 men and women chose to convert at an event held Friday.
Mission Jai Bheem, a group founded in August last year, was the main organiser of last week's 'mass conversion' event. It says such events happen every year across India.
When Jesuits reintroduced Christianity in China in the 16th century, dragons became associated with a Westernised explanation–the devil. Why do they appear at all?
Citing 'debt of gratitude' Tibetan Buddhists in Ladakh owe Dalai Lama, Kushok Thiksay, head of Thiksay monastery and a former Rajya Sabha MP, wrote to Lieutenant-Governor Monday.
Though China is no longer a Buddhist majority country, it’s economic gains, spiritual desires, and Asian characteristics will enable Buddhism to make a comeback.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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