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Vasant Panchami refers to the religious Hindu festival of Saraswati Puja or Shree Panchami. It is a seasonal spring festival which is observed in many regions of the India. The festival also marks the start of preparation for Holika and Holi, which take place forty days later. Let’s find out more about the significance and importance of this festival in this episode of Culture Shauk with Sunita Iyer.

Apart from labelling UP CM Yogi Adityanath as a mosquito, NCP’s Rajya Sabha MP Husain Dalwai said that Pakistan was created after a demand for Hindu rashtra arose. 

Bangladesh cricketer Mustafizur Rehman tweeted a rather helpless message to his people as his side embarked on a tour to Pakistan. 

In a controversial statement, AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi said that it was his forefathers that created Charminar and there was no need to show papers related to citizenship 

Jitendra Awhad, an NCP MLA and Maharashtra minister of Housing has said that Muslims know the burial places of their ancestors as they bury them, while Hindus don’t know because they cremate them. The statement comes in the wake of protests against CAA.  

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that when their organisation claims that the country belongs to Hindus, they mean the citizens of India are Hindus. He also stressed how RSS's ideology gathers people from all communities to stay together

The anti-CAA protests have shown that, apart from the unease over the citizenship law, even Hinduism was being targeted. 

Columnist Sunanda Vashisht, a Kashmiri Hindu, testified at a US Congressional hearing on human rights last year. One of the stories she narrated on the issue of the plight faced by Kashmiri Hindus will leave all of us teary-eyed. 

Three decades marking the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, let’s take a look at the horrifying incidents that unfolded during those days, forcing Hindus to flee

Several cases of abduction and forced marriages of minor girls in Pakistan have come to light. Reacting to this, officials from India summoned Pakistan high commission and staged a strong protest over the recent cases.

Journalist-author Saba Naqvi, who courted controversy for peddling fake news on social media with regard to Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), has once again hurt Hindu sentiments after sharing a picture of a poster with shattered swastik on Twitter

In Pakistan, senior leader Mani Shankar Aiyar openly spoke ill of PM Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah in relation to the NPC. Incidentally the tall leader has a history of blabbering such politically insensitive remarks against the PM