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India lost its pioneer anti-nuclear activist and eminent Gandhian Shri Narayan Desai last month. Narayan bhai founded ’Anumukti’ (freedom from nuclear) after Chernobyl which became India’s first anti-nuclear magazine.

Remember Rajeshwar Singh, the RSS functionary and president of the Dharm Jagran Samiti (DJS) who was at the forefront of the reconversion or ‘ghar wapsi’ programmes in Uttar Pradesh in which some Muslims and Christians were reportedly ‘reconverted’ to Hinduism. DJS in league with the Bajrang Dal was behind the reconversion of Muslims at Agra on 8 December 2014.

It is not enough to condemn the killings. We need to understand how our own intolerance of free-thinking and of questioning religious belief and thought contributed to a climate conducive to such an atrocity.

A tribunal in Dhaka Wednesday initiated contempt of court proceedings against 23 eminent persons for a statement they issued expressing concern over the sentence of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman for demeaning it.

Md Oyasiqur Rahman Babu , aged 27 years is dead. A travel agency executive by profession and a secular blogger by passion he was killed by radical Islamists in Tejgaon, Dhaka when he was going to office in Motijheel. The three assailants - who did not personally know each other - met just for planning the murder and then executed it with military precision.