Last month, a video of Prabodh Swami leader Anand Sagar Swami’s satsang in Boston went viral. This led to Gujarat Brahmo Samaj accusing him of insulting Hindu god Shiva.
On 4 October, 10 men were caned for stone pelting that allegedly happened a day before. Muslim villagers claim trouble started when the sarpanch decided to organise ‘garba’.
On the 3-day-visit, he will declare Modhera as India’s first 24×7 solar-powered village & lay the foundation stone of projects worth Rs 1,300 cr at Ahmedabad's Civil Hospital.
VHP and Bajrang Dal have been passing diktats against Muslims' entry at Garba venues. But things didn't change much on the ground—until police and politics got involved this year.
Police inquiry has been ordered into public flogging of Muslim men by cops in plain clothes. Incident happened day after 'stones were pelted' at garba event in Undhela.
10 men were held against an electrical pillar and caned in the incident Tuesday. Villagers allege that the men indulged in violence and disrupted a garba event the previous night.
The incident occurred Saturday after after a group of people objected to members of another community trying to put up a religious flag alongside their flag on an electricity pole.
In an India that was post-Mughal but pre-British Raj, diplomacy, popular religion, and a constellation of genius painters created the most spectacular Ramayana adaptation ever.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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