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I’m an Indian Muslim, and I’m Scared to Say So
I used to answer the phone with “Salam.” Not anymore. I don’t want people to know I’m a Muslim. There is little that would identify me as Muslim to begin with, aside from my name. I don’t wear a skullcap, and in public I avoid wearing the ...
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Modi’s Temple of Lies
The sleepy pilgrimage city of Ayodhya in northern India was once home to a grand 16th-century mosque, until it was illegally demolished by a howling mob of Hindu militants in 1992. The site has since been reinvented as the centerpiece of the Hindu ...
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India’s Top Court Reverses Early Release of 11 Men Convicted of Gang Rape
The case of Bilkis Bano, who was three months pregnant when she was attacked, became a powerful symbol of communal bloodshed and of the widespread violence against women in the country.
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A Hindu Mardi Gras Where Indian Progressivism Is Alive and Well
Purbasha Roy held her 9-year-old daughter’s hand and pointed toward the towering art installation: blooming pink buds symbolizing embryos, menstrual cups shaped to form a bouquet, fallopian tubes descending from corners of the ceiling. The work, part ...
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A $96 Million Hindu Temple Opens Amid Accusations of Forced Labor
The temple in Robbinsville, N.J., about 15 years in the making, is believed to be the largest in the Western Hemisphere. But its construction has also been clouded in controversy.
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Modi’s Hindu Nationalism Stokes Tension in Indian Diaspora
The killing of a Canadian Sikh leader, carried out by what Canada described as Indian government agents, occurred amid widening divisions in the diaspora.
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Vivek Ramaswamy Leans Into His Hindu Faith to Court Christian Voters
Bristol Smith, a manager at a McDonald’s in Maryville, Tenn., came across Vivek Ramaswamy’s name this spring, shortly after Mr. Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur, announced he was running for president. Mr. Smith was intrigued. He liked the way Mr ...
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Russia’s War Could Make It India’s World
Seated in the domed, red sandstone government building unveiled by the British Raj less than two decades before India threw off imperial rule, S. Jaishankar, the Indian foreign minister, needs no reminder of how the tides of history sweep away ...