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Four Coordinated Incidents of Land Seizure, Arson and Temple Vandalism Targeting Hindus in Post-Election Bangladesh on 13th February

On 13th February, four separate incidents unfolded across four different districts of Bangladesh — each targeting vulnerable Hindu families and their property. Each incident has its own local context. But taken together, they paint a deeply disturbing picture of insecurity, impunity, and a growing climate of fear for minorities. 1) Land Seizure and Assault in …

Exclusion by Design: How Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami-linked IBN SINA Pharmaceuticals is Institutionalising Gender and Religious Discrimination in Corporate Sector

A senior legal position advertised by IBN SINA Pharmaceutical Industry PLC, a company controlling a vast network of hospitals, diagnostic centers, medical colleges and training institutes across Bangladesh, explicitly bars women and non-Muslims from applying. Their advertisement for “Executive/Senior Executive, Legal Affairs” role posted on 26 January 2026, specifies that candidates must be male and …

Why All Political Parties Play Caste Chess and How General Caste Indians End Up as Residual Citizens

In India’s caste-saturated democracy, communities classified as Savarna or General Caste occupy an increasingly anomalous position: they carry numbers, fiscal responsibility, and institutional expectations — without any durable form of political protection. The General Caste voter has become the silent underwriter of a system that no longer even pretends to reward merit, economic vulnerability, or national cohesion. What we …

Inclusive Optics, Hollow Power: The Narrow Possibilities and Hard Limits of State Governance in Manipur

The recent reconfiguration of Manipur’s political leadership has been presented by the Central Government as an exercise in inclusiveness as well as an attempt to restore balance, calm, and administrative credibility in a state devastated by nearly two years of ethnic violence and mass displacement. On the surface, the appointments appear carefully calibrated with a …

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 …