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Indian Muslims on the ongoing conflict between the sects of the same religion in Punjab. “That brings me to some really troubling happenings in Punjab recently. Apparently there is a sect called Dera Sacha Sauda that claims a following of 15 million people. 15 million is a huge number even in India and I did not even knew of its existence. The headquarters of Dera are located in Sirsa district of Haryana spread over 700 acres.”
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Jaspreet discusses how some Indian men have to balance between their love for cricket and obviously for their wife.
“There are two kinds of marriage payments — dowry and brideprice, with significant differences among their prevalences in time and across societies,” - informs J. Rahman at Mukti.
Ameena Hussein at Groundviews tries to analyze why there is a growing tendency among Sri Lankan Buddhists to embrace violence and hatred.
Sabrina from USA is visiting Bhutan and she is in love with the country. She blogs about her adventures and here is one post in which she describes how the birthday of the King of Bhutan is celebrated.
Undiscovered Indian treasures Blog reports that Kodhini, a town in Kerala, India, with a population of only 2000 villagers has around 350 twins. This rate is 700 times of the global average.
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And ram rahim ordered his followers to kill newspaper editor and another dera follower ranjit singh. Definitely not a character of a pure saint.