Nearly 10,000 rounds of bullets were fired in police shootings that killed 93 Muslims and 77 Hindus. In total 27,901 Hindus and 7,651 Muslims were arrested. Preventive arrests of 17,947 Hindus and 3,616 Muslims were made. 61,000 Muslims and 10,000 Hindus fled their homes. Muslim-owned businesses suffered the bulk of the damage. This in turn prompted retaliatory attacks against Muslims and general communal riots on a large scale across the state, in which 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were ultimately killed and 223 more people were reported missing.ĥ23 places of worship were damaged: 298 dargahs, 205 mosques, 17 temples, and 3 churches. 58 Hindu pilgrims, mostly women and children returning from Ayodhya, were killed in the attack. On 27 February 2002, the Sabarmati Express train was attacked at Godhra by a large Muslim mob as per a preplanned conspiracy.
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The 2002 Gujarat violence was a series of incidents including the Godhra train burning and the subsequent communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat. Haiku poems composed in Sleshmantak ban : It also urged the government to manage a graveyard for the Christian community.
Issuing a press statement, the Samiti urged the Christian community not to convert Sleshamantak forest, a holy place listed in the world heritage list that has tourism, religious and cultural importance, into a graveyard. Sanatan Dharma Sewa Samiti (SDSS) has expressed its concern over the news reports carried out by some media that "some Christian people have made Sleshamantak forest at Pashupatinath area, which is said to be the center of the devotion of the Hindu people, a graveyard". Sleshmantak ban is a small, serene forestĪcross the holy temple of Pashupatinath in Kathmandu.ĭon't make Sleshmantak forest a graveyard To read his other poems, visit this link: His other works are coming up in Buddhist Poetry Review and Essence Poetry Journal. His poems have appeared in The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, Mad Swirl, Of Nepalese Clay, Poddle (Poddle Publications, Dublin), Locust Magazine, Snow Monkey Journal, The Applicant, and Cuckoo Quarterly, among others. Misty Mountain Review, an online journal of short poetry. A member of The Society of Nepali Writers in English, he is a teacher of English by profession. He is a graduate in English and American literature from Tribhuvan University.
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