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KANPUR: RIGHT-WING GROUPS TARGET TWO CHURCHES; TWO MEN ARRESTED FOR 'ILLEGAL CONVERSION'  [ https://thewire.in/communalism/kanpur-two-churches-targeted-right-wing ] A group of men, who were from
Bajrang Dal and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), interrupted the prayer  claiming that Abhijeet, Rajat, Jeevan, Shivansh, Sheetal, and Rana were “converting people to Christianity”.

Six people were detained from the church on Saturday, out of which two are in judicial custody. The remaining four were allegedly “illegally detained” in the police station of Chakeri in Kanpur on Saturday and released on Monday night, according to advocate Chanchal, who is handling the matter

The attacks come at a time when civil society members have sounded the alarm over a “climate of fear” among the Christian community, which they said was being targeted by using the bogey of “forced conversion”.

Forum of Environmental Journalists https://youtu.be/QrCYFuD2oHM?t=402

Gurbir Singh, Secretary Bombay Press Club:  https://youtube.com/embed/QrCYFuD2oHM?start=221&end=395

Keya Acharya, FEJI remembers Darryl:  https://youtube.com/embed/QrCYFuD2oHM?start=562&end=685

 https://youtu.be/QrCYFuD2oHM?t=868

Darryl D'Monte will be remembered for contributions to environmental movement, support to young journalists https://www.firstpost.com/india/darryl-dmonte-will-be-remembered-for-contributions-to-environmental-movement-support-to-young-journalists-6281921.html
Rajni Bakshi March 18, 2019

Soon after leaving The Indian Express, Darryl received the prestigious Homi Bhabha Fellowship, which allowed him to dedicate two years to intense research and the formulation of a critique of the development model that India was following. ‘Temples or Tombs’ went on to inform, inspire and influence a wide range of activist groups. This book nourished the political soil from which rose the slogan "vinash nahin vikas chahiye" (we want development, not destruction) — made famous by the Narmada Bachao Andolan in the late 1980s and mid 1990s...

In times of communal violence, be it in 1984 in Delhi or 1992-93 in Mumbai, Darryl insisted on viewing the violence only through the lens of human rights – never ever did he look through any political lens of making excuses for the violence, or even asking who threw the first stone.

In 1993, in the politically charged atmosphere, when the Indian middle classes first began to be polarised on communal lines, I went to him with a rather demanding proposal. By then, Darryl was resident editor of the Mumbai edition of The Times of India. That year was to mark the centenary of Swami Vivekananda’s famous address at the Congress of World Religions in Chicago....we agreed on a 6-part series which was published in the Sunday section of The Times of India accompanied by beautiful illustrations. Above all, I thank and honour Darryl for supporting and encouraging my curiosity and restless questioning as a fledgling journalist. It was Darryl who, all the way back in 1981, told me about an initiative called Lokayan – dialogue of the people.

विदेशी धरती पर भारत की बदनामी क्या तमाम Global पैमाने पर पिछड़ने से नहीं होती है? | Rahul Gandhi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=070u6LGUjYM Mar 7, 2023
W when the country gets defamed? Does the country's defamation happen when the country walks on the path of destruction due to the useless functioning of the government or when the flaws are presented as truth to save the country from the path of destruction. When Rahul Gandhi gave a speech at Cambridge University in the exact opposite style from Narendra Modi, that is, without false pride, highlighting the flaws of the present time, on the plight of the country's democracy in the era of Narendra Modi, Union Minister Anurag Thakur reacted to the BJP. That Rahul Gandhi has done the work of defaming the country by visiting foreign lands. Similarly, many leaders have also given statements on behalf of BJP, according to which Rahul Gandhi's speech has described populated India as ruined India. So let's make this a reference and see on all the global standards around the world that what has been the condition of India in the era of Narendra Modi?