Only a person who knows his religion and language can appreciate other’s which alone guarantees harmony and unity

It has also led to a strange role reversal where the ‘secular’ BJD is supposedly playing the religious card while the BJP is left crying foul!

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor says it is the duty of the grand old party to defend the secular space, and the answer to the party's woes in the Hindi heartland does not lie in 'majority appeasement' or offering some sort of a 'Hindutva Lite' like a 'Coke Lite'

Shyama Prasad Mookerjee’s famous slogan 'Ek Desh Mein do vidhan/Ek Desh Mein do Nishan/Ek Desh Mein do Pradhan/Nahin Chalenge, Nahin Chalenge' has remained a war cry for various Hindu Right organisations in their campaign since the early 1950s

By providing financial grant to Puja pandals across the state, the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal has struck against the shaky edifice of secularism in the country

In her complaint at Golabari police station in Howrah, Ishrat Jahan accused her brother-in-law and her landlord of threatening and abusing her for taking part in the religious function.

The right-wing political party in a memorandum handed to Prime Minister K P Oli demanded that Nepal should be declared a Hindu state with complete religious freedom by revoking the provision of secularism.

A perception is being manufactured that Muslims, especially Kashmiri Muslims, are settling down in Jammu city under an ‘Islamist’ plan to change the demography of the region and "encircle" the city. Some groups have been consistently fanning such perception.

"It does not dent the country's secular fabric and secularism does not bar issuance of coins to commemorate any event," the bench said.

Hegde sat in the House for a while listening to opposition protests against his controversial statement