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Religious conversions - Road to Hindu state ?? So we've been hearing about the religious conversions going on all around the country. I'm sure we all have our opinions about them. But as we are in the 21st century we ought to ask ourselves is this really the direction we wish to go in? So let's begin. (Reuters)(Dec,21)  The head of India's most powerful Hindu group vowed to press ahead with a campaign to convert Muslims and Christians to Hinduism, stoking a sensitive debate that has stalled parliament and threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic reform agenda. Mohan Bhagwat of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, which is also the ideological wing of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said India was a "Hindu nation" where many Hindus had been forcibly converted to other religions. "We will bring back those who have lost their way. They did not go on their own," Bhagwat said in a speech late on Saturday. "T...

Reservations - good or bad? INDIA 's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru has anticipated that within 30 years india would have no need of reservations as there would be no backward castes and government would bring education to every common man. But this isn't the scenario now... Politicians do not strive to remove the reservations but instead they promise public that they would increase them. They intentionally or non-intentionally say that they would not help in the up liftment of the backward societies but drag them into abyss. People in INDIA fail to understand that increase in reservation means that there is no development in the country. Even after 60 years of independence, people still need reservations. WHY? Why are people so obliqued to the reservations? People ask for reservations because they are financially low and cannot meet the expenses of the higher education. But do they really need reservation in the education? I mean reservation for th...