Topic: Kashi Temple
Modi’s Kashi project is living up to a continuing ancient tradition of rebuilding temples
We have enough legends, stories and texts to justify and praise the Kashi project. I only hope that the effort to reduce dirt and debris is taken up at other sites as well.
Varanasi court orders ASI probe to settle Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque dispute
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Hours after the Varanasi court gave its ruling, Sunni Central Waqf Board chairman Zufar Ahmad Farooqui said the order will be challenged in the high court.
BJP, opposition argue over vaccines on ABP News, Kashi temple history lesson by CNN News 18
A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.
In photos: Kashi’s alleys are stuck between a facelift & cultural crisis
Under the BJP govt’s Kashi Viswanath Temple Corridor project, over 200 buildings have been demolished, which locals allege is changing Kashi’s cultural identity.
On Camera
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India’s blasphemy beheadings have a new audience—and they’re sitting behind smartphones
Videos on social media have become a key feature of blasphemy killings. Each inspires communal competitors to stage a more macabre act of revenge.
RBI intervenes with multi-pronged strategy in battle against rupee fall
The Reserve Bank’s challenges include crashes in forward dollar premiums to rising open interest in futures that adds to pressure on the currency.
Defence
India and Egypt work towards building strategic relationship with focus on defence & security
From holding joint military exercises to exporting wheat as Russia and Ukraine stop supplies, New Delhi and Cairo are redrawing their relationship as geopolitical tensions rise.
Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.