December 13, 2015
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/BJP-warns-Rajinikanth-against-playing-Tipu-Sultan/articleshow/48965507.cms
BJP warns Rajinikanth against playing Tipu Sultan
TNN| Sep 15, 2015, 08.45 AM IST
December 13, 2015
http://www.dailyo.in/politics/meat-ban-rape-sexual-harassment-jainism-child-abuse-devendra-fadnavis/story/1/6185.html
Are cows more important than women in India?
Is religion easier to sensationalise in our country?
| BELOW THE BELT | 3-minute read | 11-09-2015
For the past few days a news story has forced me to think hard on what the priorities of this nation really are. Yes, I am talking about the move to prohibit meat for four days in Mumbai, coming a few months after the controversial beef ban in Maharashtra, for the Jain festival of fasting.
The ban was first imposed by the Congress in…
December 13, 2015
http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/kerala-house-beef-row-kejriwal-says-delhi-police-acting-like-bjp-sena/story-u7NtSrdTB8GSV9bOCwS8zL.html
Kerala House beef row: Kejriwal says Delhi Police acting like BJP sena
- HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
- Updated: Oct 27, 2015 14:01 IST
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Kejriwal said on Twitter that Delhi Police “had no business to enter Kerala House”. (PTI File Photo)
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Congress on Tuesday criticised the Delhi Police for acting on a complaint that beef was allegedly being served in the canteen of Kerala House, saying the force had exceeded its jurisdiction.
December 13, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34589995
Indian protests after Dalit children burnt alive in caste attack
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21 October 2015
- From the sectionIndia
Protesters have blocked a key highway in India to protest against the death of two children who were burnt alive in an arson attack near the capital Delhi.
A toddler and a nine-month old died…
December 13, 2015
http://zionica.com/2015/10/14/texas-passes-law-permanently-banning-muslim-sharia-laws/#
- Once again the nation looks to Texas for the way things ought to be. This time the Texas Legislature has passed a law permanently barring Muslims from trying to institute their own sharia-based savagery on their own communities in the Lone Star State.
Shoebat.com reports that the anti-sharia law was passed this week.
WOAI State Sen. Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels) doesn’t mention Islamic Koranic law, or ‘Sharia Law’ in her bill. She simply says it guarantees that no laws fro ‘foreign courts’ will be adopted by Texas civil court judges.
“It’s just to provide some belt and suspenders to make…
December 13, 2015
http://zeenews.india.com/news/himachal-pradesh/repeat-of-dadri-trucker-killed-by-mob-in-shimla-for-cattle-smuggling_1810965.html
Repeat of Dadri? Alleged cow smuggler lynched in Himachal Pradesh
Zee Media Bureau
Nahan: At a time when the whole nation is debating on lynching of a man in Dadri, a truck driver in Himachal Pradesh was allegedly killed by a mob on Friday on suspicion of smuggling cattle.
The…
December 13, 2015
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/506732/muslims-can-live-india-they.html
Muslims can live in India but they have to give up eating beef: Haryana CM
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar sparked a controversy by stating that Muslims can continue to live in India, but they have to give up eating beef as cow is an article of faith.
Describing the Dadri incident as an outcome of misunderstanding, he claimed that the victim had made some hurtful comments about cows which angered the mob and made them take such a step, reports Indian Express.
However, he further said that any…
December 13, 2015
Banning Ghulam Ali Will Fan Cultural Fascism In India
Protest Letter By Cultural Personalities
12 October, 2015
Countercurrents.org
We, the following writers, artists, film makers, poets, musicians, dancers, theatre persons and art lovers strongly condemn the act of the Shiv Sena preventing the renowned singer Ustad Ghulam Ali from singing in Mumbai. The concert was organised in order to commemorate the death anniversary of Jagjit Singh, another very well-known ghazal singer.
Born in 1940 in British India, Ghulam Ali was a disciple of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. After Independence Ghulam Ali endeared himself to the entire Indian subcontinent as well as other parts of…
December 13, 2015
After Sashi Deshpande steps down, Akademi explains its silence
December 13, 2015
BJP MLA Sangeet Som purchased land for meat processing unit in UP
- S Raju, Hindustan Times, Meerut
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- Updated: Oct 09, 2015 19:43 IST
BJP MLA Sangeet Som said he would quit politics if his role in the factory was proved. (HT Photo/Dheeraj Dhawan)
Firebrand BJP leader Sangeet Som, along with two others, purchased land for a meat processing unit in Aligarh in 2005, reveal registry documents accessed by Hindustan Times.
The documents show that Som, who was among the directors of Al Dua Food Processing Private Limited along with Moinuddin Qureshi and Yogesh Rawat till March 2008, bought the land for the company.
Talking to HT, Som admitted that…