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India’s Stance on Refugees
May 31, 2018
India hosts the largest population of refugees in all of South Asia. At the end of 2016, there were 207,070 persons of concern in India, out of whom 197,851 were refugees and 9,219 were asylum seekers. As per the Global Trends report on Forced Displacement in 2016, published by t...
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L’Histoire dans la rue
January 23, 2018
Construit par l’empereur moghol Shah Jahan, le Taj Mahal, a récemment été supprimé d’une brochure touristique car pas assez « représentatif » de l’Inde. Dans un contexte tendu de revendications identitaires fondées sur une histoire parfois recomposée, un autre mouv...
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Ajmer : temple rouge et ville d’or
August 28, 2017
Monument symbolique de l’histoire du jaïnisme (une religion née en Inde dans le courant du Xe siècle ou IXe siècle avant notre ère), ce temple d’Ajmer est une véritable merveille architecturale. Derrière sa structure extérieure de grès rouge ouvragé, le temple ...
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The obscurity of Minority Affairs in India
March 18, 2017
Equal opportunities and a dignified acceptance are probably the most critical demands of the minority groups in India. Some of the schemes rolled out by the Indian government deserve applause while large scale negligence remains prominent.
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World Sufi Forum 2016
March 22, 2016
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the need to build peace and harmony in the world, as hundreds of people attended the World Sufi Forum from March 17-20, 2016 in New Delhi. With an aim to strengthen global peace, stand against violence and spread spiritual messag...
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