
On the sacred night of Mahashivratri, when chants of “Har Har Mahadev” were meant to echo across the hills of Sitakunda, the bells of Chandranath Temple were drowned not by devotion, but by screams. They arrived barefoot and fasting with brass vessels of milk and sacred Ganga water from Assam, Tripura, Manipur and from every distant corner of Bangladesh …

Hindu minorities and their temples are not safe in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh. A fresh case has been reported from the Sitakunda district of Bangladesh. On the night of 24th of June, unidentified miscreants targeted a Kali Mata temple in Kedarkhil village under the Sayedpur union of Sitakunda. The perpetrators entered the temple around midnight by breaking the lock of the …