Thursday, February 25, 2010

Tension as India, Pakistan talk - asia - world | Stuff.co.nz

  • Tension as India, Pakistan talk - asia - world | Stuff.co.nz

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    PROTESTING AGAINST PAKISTAN: An activist from Rashtrawadi Sena, a hardline Hindu group, holds a trishul in front of a placard during a protest in New Delhi.
    • PROTESTING AGAINST PAKISTAN: An activist from Rashtrawadi Sena, a hardline Hindu group, holds a trishul in front of a placard during a protest in New Delhi.
    • The two countries have to agree which subjects should be covered in the talks -- India wants to focus on terrorism while Pakistan eyes the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir that has been the cause of two of their three wars.

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No problem with M F Husain’s return: RSS chief - Hindustan Times

  • No problem with M F Husain’s return: RSS chief - Hindustan Times

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    • Ramesh Babu, Hindustan Times
    • Thiruvananthapuram

    • RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Thursday said his organization wouldn’t oppose if the noted painter M F Husain, who is living in exile in the middle-east since 2006, wants to come back to his country.

      “If he would have apologized for hurting the sentiments of a section of the people we have no problem. We will neither oppose nor welcome his return,” he said at a meet the press programme here.


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Thousands gather in Himachal to celebrate Buddhist fair

  • Thousands gather in Himachal to celebrate Buddhist fair

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    • Thousands of Buddhists from India and abroad have thronged to the Rewalsar lake in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district for the two-day Tsechu fair to commemorate the birth anniversary of Guru Padma Sambhava.
    • The fair commemorates the birthday of Padma Sambhava, who went to Tibet from India via Nepal and preached Buddhism there in 747 AD. He meditated for many years on the banks of the Rewalsar, around 200 km from the state capital.

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Madhya Pradesh Church battles property control | CathNews Asia







    • Catholics in India’s Madhya Pradesh state have launched a campaign to garner public support against a proposed legislation that aims to bring Church properties under government control.



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    • However, Anand Bernad, the Christian member of Madhya Pradesh’s minority commission, told UCA News he initiated the law to protect the interest of Christians in the state.
      He said several Protestant groups sell off common properties without consulting their people, thus impoverishing communities.
      According to him, the legislation will also protect the properties from land encroachers and help people use their income for their community’s welfare better.

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The Hindu : News / National : M.F. Husain gets Qatar nationality

  • The Hindu : News / National : M.F. Husain gets Qatar nationality

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    The black-and-white line drawing eminent artist M.F. Husain shared with The Hindu. Though this exemplar of secular art did not apply for it, he was conferred citizenship by Qatar.

    • M.F. Husain, India’s greatest and most celebrated artist, has been conferred Qatar nationality - something that is very rarely given. The artist gave me this news from Dubai early Wednesday morning by reading out the few lines he had written on a black-and-white line drawing that he released to The Hindu.

      “Honoured by Qatar nationality” but deeply saddened by his enforced exile and the need now to give up the citizenship of the land of his birth, which he has lovingly and secularly celebrated in his art covering a period of over seven decades. India does not allow dual citizenship, even though it has instituted the category of the ‘Overseas Indian Citizen.’ Mr. Husain will no doubt seek to acquire OIC status after completing the due procedures.

      It is important to note that Mr. Husain did not apply for Qatar nationality and that it was conferred upon him at the instance of the modernising emirate’s ruling family.

    • His work now is mostly towards two large projects, the history of Indian civilisation and the history of Arab civilisation. The latter was commissioned by Qatar’s powerful first lady – Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned, wife of the emirate’s ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The works will be housed in a separate museum in Doha.

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