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Rising Concerns Over Islamist Extremism and Demographic Tensions in Bangladesh and West Bengal

Hindu Voice Team: Growing concerns are emerging across South Asia over the activities of Islamist extremist networks and their potential impact on communal harmony in Bangladesh and India’s West Bengal. Analysts warn that radical ideologies, demographic shifts, and cross-border militant influences could pose serious challenges to regional stability if left unaddressed. Allegations of Targeted Violence …

Days After Dipu Chandra Das, the Arrest of Joy Sarkar in Faridpur on fabricated blasphemy charges exposes a Chilling Climate of Fear

Police have arrested a 22-year-old Hindu youth, Joy Sarkar, from Ward Number 11, Alipur, in the Faridpur District of Bangladesh over allegations of posting “religiously offensive” comments on social media. The arrest, carried out late on 26th December 2025, took place amid rapidly escalating tensions online and on the streets. What makes the incident impossible …

When Roads close and Airfares turn predatory: The slow strangling of Imphal Valley’s residents and displaced victims

There is a particular kind of suffering that neither roars nor erupts, that makes no demands and seeks no spectacle. It simply endures. It settles into the bones of a people, day after day, until endurance itself becomes a sentence. That is the life forced upon the people of Manipur today — a population trapped …

150 Years of Vande Mataram: The Civilisational Anthem That Awakened India’s Soul

✍️ Arun Anand. Vande Mataram’, an eternally inspirational civilisational anthem of Bharat, written by sage and seer Bankim Chandra Chatterjee will be completing 150 years on 7 November this year. Though there have been multiple views about the date of its writing but now there is a broad agreement that it was written on 7 …

India’s Gen Z Too Busy Building Empires to March in the Rain!

Hindu Voice Team: While Gen Z youth across the world are taking to the streets for political and social causes, India’s young generation appears to have chosen a different path — one of enterprise, ambition, and digital innovation. A recent report titled “The Phantom Protests: Why India’s Gen Z Is Too Busy Building Empires to …

Remembering Noakhali 1946: The Forgotten Tragedy of Mass Rape & Genocide Against Hindus

Hindu Voice Team: As devotees across Bangladesh celebrated Lakshmi Puja, a festival symbolizing wealth, prosperity, and hope, history cast a dark shadow over the day. On this same day in 1946, the Noakhali district became the scene of one of the most horrific communal atrocities in Bengal’s history. Nearly half a million Hindus were subjected …

20th September: Bengali Language Day of West Bengal

20th September 2018 is a profoundly memorable day in the history of Bengalis. On this tragic day, Rajesh Sarkar and Tapas Barman sacrificed their lives to resist the sinister designs of Ghazawat al-Hind—the expansionist schemes of the Arab imperialism in the Indian subcontinent—which aimed to snatch away the linguistic rights of Bengalis in West Bengal …

In the Ashes of Calcutta: The Forgotten Heroics of Suranjan and Niranjan Samajpati during Direct Action Day

Memoir of Those Seven Days By Suranjan Samajpati August 16, Evening The city was restless even before the first scream. Rumours thickened in the lanes of Kalighat like smoke — Direct Action Day, Suhrawardy’s speeches, mobs sharpening blades openly, constables melting away. By the time Niranjan and I left our cramped rented room, we knew …

The horrors of Direct Action Day from the Diary of Unsung Hero Captain Shanti Ranjan Banerjee, Veteran, Royal Indian Navy

Day 1 – 16 August 1946 The whole day, the air was uneasy. Uncomfortable rumours of violence had spread faster than tramcars. Suhrawardy’s voice blared over Calcutta, and I could sense the mood turning ugly. I have long been uncomfortable with the Muslim League’s mindset—aggressive, self-righteous, looking for a chance to strike. My own Graham …

How the unwavering fire and unyielding steel of the Anushilan Samiti not only shook the foundations of the British Raj, but also safeguarded Hindu lives, livelihoods and places of worship during times of communal unrest 

1) Founded on 24.03.1902, by Pramathanath Mitra and Satish Chandra Bose, the Anushilan Samiti was initially founded to promote a culture of fitness and create a society capable of protecting themselves, but soon evolved into a sophisticated organisation determined to end British Rule.  2) Inspired by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Anandamath …