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The truth is that the shift has been underway in Bangladesh for a long time now, and was visible - even ignored - under the ...
From the youth-led publication house The American Hindu, the latest book, 'Echoes of the Silenced,' shares stories of Hindu ...
India has welcomed the Taliban’s initiative to restore property to the minority Sikhs and Hindus of Afghanistan. In a bid to cleanse Afghanistan’s major cities of property mafia, the ...
There are also about 800 Afghan Hindus in the area, according to Doulat Radhu Bathija, a leader of that community. Back in Afghanistan, gurdwaras and temples always stood side by side, ...
Sikhs and Hindus have lived in Afghanistan for generations, but the end of that era is near. Afghan Sikh man mourns over a coffin during a funeral procession and cremation ceremony for those who ...
Years of religious persecution and conflict have forced many Afghan Hindus and Sikhs to flee the country, reducing their numbers to about 7,000 by 2016, and now to a mere 140 who have chosen to ...
Despite the thin number of Hindus in Afghanistan, their history in the country dates back 34,000 years or roughly during the Bronze Age and Indus Valley Civilization when Gandhara was a Mahajanapada, ...
PM welcomes ‘home’ a team of Afghan Hindus and Sikhs Delegation rues long delays in citizenship and lack of visas; Mr. Modi says India is your home ...
After taking shelter at the Gurdwara Dashmesh Pita, a Sikh temple, in the Karte Parwan neighborhood of Kabul for weeks, Afghan Sikhs and Hindus have left for their homes in different parts of the ...
09/08/2021 September 8, 2021. Afghan Sikhs and Hindus face a precarious future living in a country ruled by the Taliban. While the Islamic fundamentalist group says the minorities will be safe ...
Until the 1970s, there were at least 200,000 Hindus and Sikhs living in Afghanistan, and by 2020, their number declined to nearly 50 Hindus and about 650 Sikhs. As per data, 99% of the Afghan ...