The Kerala HC annulled the marriage of Shafin Jahan and Akhila, sent her back to her parents
Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Pravin Togadia addresses a Hindu convention organised by VHP, in Ahmadabad.
Workers prepare a mass of balloons for the 2016 Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia.
Ambedkar and his wife Savita converting to Buddhism in Nagpur
Ghar wapasi Christians ‘returning’ to Hindu fold in Hasayan, UP
Ritual cleansing A baptism in Nagpur
Return ticket A ghar wapasi at Kharmadanga village, Birbhum
To be or... A ghar wapasi in W. Bengal
Christian tribals perform rituals pledging to Hinduism at a programme organised by Vishwa Hindu Parishad at Kharmadanga village near Rampurhat in Birbhum district, West Bengal.
People take part in a religion conversion ceremony from Christianity to Hinduism at Hasayan town of Uttar Pradesh on August 29, 2014.
Families who had embraced Christianity performing prayers at a Gurdwara before being re-converted to Sikhism in a 'Ghar Wapsi' programme conducted by Dharam Jagran Manch at Guru-ki...
U-turn? A man chips out a cross at his home in Hasayan, UP, after converting to Hinduism
MP Dinesh Kashyap at a VHP Christian ‘ghar vapasi’ event in Bastar, Oct 2014
Christians protest the church arson attack in Delhi with a candle-light vigil, Dec 7, 2014
Forces deployed at Kalvari church in Ludhiana after Shiv Sena attack, Dec 11, 2014
A Sangh supporter flies a saffron flag atop a vandalised church in Muniguda, Orissa
“What crime have we commited?” Bhagvati Prasad Bhagla with his family in Aligarh
Workers of the Babri Masjid Action Committee protest against the alleged conversion of the Muslims, in Moradabad.
No home this A Sangh conversion ceremony for Muslim men
Muslims holding a protest against alleged conversion of some of families of the community, in Agra.
A 16-year-old Hindu girl's alleged abduction and conversion in Pakistan has created an uproar among the minority community
Activists allegedly belonging to the right-wing Hindu Yuva Vahini (HVY), founded by Yogi Adityanath, today created ruckus
Police stopped a church event attended by more than 150 people, including 10 American tourists, here after the right-wing
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today said Hindu population was reducing in India as they "never convert people", while minori
Raking up the issue of conversions, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today said such attempts are unlikely to be successful in the
Hindu tradition does not allow conversion by means that amount to aggression on an individual's human rights, RSS chief Mo
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev today said Christians did charity but also indulged in conversions while Hindus refrained from such
In the wake brutal thrashing of Dalits in Una, at least 1,000 people from the community in Banaskantha district have so fa
A Pakistani Senate committee today declared the forced conversion of Hindu girls to Islam as un-Islamic and appealed
A Christian priest and his two women associates were arrested by police today after a man accused them of "forcibly conver
R. Jagannathan joins issue with Tahir Mahmood, member of the Law Commission, in the DNA:
The Law Commission's opinion on Islam and bigamy is well intentioned, but it's really a double-edged sword. For two reasons. First, it is not appropriate for a non-religious body to quote the scriptures to justify a stand it wants to take for reasons of gender equity and justice.
Second, once a religious justification is used to promote a cause -- monogamy in this case -- what is to stop narrow-minded loonies from quoting the same books for whatever mayhem they have in mind? If the courts and law agencies start using religious justifications for secular causes, how can they uphold the Constitution?
There is no need to go down that slippery slope.
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Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph:
A pogrom is the first step in the Gujarat model. The object of the pogrom is polarization, specifically the consolidation of a Hindu majority. The third ‘P’ in this grim sequence is political victory at the polls. What we’ve seen in the last week in Orissa is the BJP’s political establishment explicitly owning this strategy. The long history of rivalry and tension between the largely Hindu Kandhas and the largely Christian Panos has been brought to fever pitch by the violence
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