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4 Oct, 2015

Liberal Hindus, arise: Reclaim your faith from extremists – TOI Blogs

The brutal Dadri lynching, the unspeakably tragic, numbing, and horrifying death of the innocent Akhlaq and the grievous injury to his 22-year-old son Danish should make every Hindu bow his head in shame, to cry out loud, to scream in anguish and demand to know, what is happening to Hinduism? Where is the philosophy of Bhartrihari, of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, of Meera, of Krishna Chaitanya and of Gandhi? Where is the glorious tradition of vaad, vivaad and samvaad? Where is the tradition, that if there are differences, the impulse to dialogue and argument enshrined in every Hindu text?

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