Hindutva

20 Sep 2008

The first thing Niranjan Naik heard was a panicked cry from the house of his neighbour: 'Help us, we are attacked, they are killing us ...

10:11AM

A Writer's People - Ways of Seeing and Feeling

14 Oct 2007

A Writer's People - Ways of Seeing and Feeling

by V. S. Naipaul

Picador, HK$280

Trinidad's Vidiadhar Surajprasad (V.S.) Naipaul published his first novel...

7:52AM

Mixed marriage brings Hindu death threats

13 Apr 2007

Mumbai police have been ordered to protect a young Muslim man and his Hindu wife because of threats to their lives and the danger that, if they return to their central Indian home city of Bhopal...

1:31AM

Where wounds refuse to heal

25 Feb 2007

The slight young woman pulls a dust-covered suitcase from under her bed and rummages through it. She smiles briefly as she takes a photograph out of the clear plastic cover that has protected it...

7:26PM

Militant Hindus pledge to prevent mixed marriages

10 Jan 2007

Militant Hindu activists, who stormed a marriage registrar's office to prevent a woman marrying a Christian, say they will no longer tolerate anti-Hindu activities on Indian soil.

2:10PM

Report on train blaze tragedy clears Muslims, angers Hindus

7 Mar 2006

Ruling party accused of playing politics after inquiry finds fire was accidental

A report clearing Muslims of starting a deadly train fire four years ago that sparked savage communal...

10:37AM

Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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3:37AM

BJP paid penalty for ignoring rural poor

A peasant's revolt has thrown the BJP out of office. While the Bharatiya Janata Party kept proclaiming that India would be a 'developed' nation in 25 years' time, 22 rural women died in a stampede...

8:44PM

Saffron nation rises

Politically driven Hindu nationalism emerged in the early 1900s as part of India's fight for independence from Britain. A concept of hindutva ('Hinduness') was galvanised to unite majority Hindus...

5:09PM

Fair treatment in Gujarat

Regarding the letter 'Gujarat riot justice' (Sunday Morning Post, March 14), it is a travesty of truth to say that the retaliation was backed by the government.

12:57PM

Letters

Gujarat riot justice

11:33AM

Finally, justice is a prospect for Gujarat riot victims

If Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had had his way, Hindus who killed and raped 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat would never have faced trial. They would have walked away scot free - because, in his...

9:05AM

Calm of condemned man a warning to Christians

Hindu extremist Dara Singh was a picture of calm when an Indian judge sentenced him to death for leading a mob which burned alive Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons in Orissa...

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