Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
"It will have dangerous consequences if the Delhi Government does not control the extremist Muslims that are flouting and disregarding all law & order in the national capital by forcibly constructing a mosque on the Municipal Corporation land!” stated Sri Ashok Singhal, Patron of Vishva Hindu Parishad (International) in a media conference here. He asked: “Is it the teaching of Islam to forcibly offer Namaz flouting all law and setting aside the orders of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court on the Corporation and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) land?” He informed, “Without concord, any big Dharmic or religious activity whatsoever and especially the question of constructing a mosque is contrary to even Muslim law.” Forcible construction of mosque in front of the Red Fort and offering Namaz there are acts of provocation, aggression and invitation to rancour and disgust between the Hindus and Muslims in the region of Delhi that needs to be prohibited. ...