Biswajeet Banerjee

Biswajeet Banerjee is an author at Religion News Service.

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Virus lockdown changes how Hindus celebrate holy period

By Biswajeet Banerjee and Gary Fields — April 2, 2020
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Hindus around the world are in the midst of a nine-day period called Chaitra Navaratri that began with what for many is considered the Hindu New Year.

Tens of thousands in India demand rebuilding of Hindu temple

By Biswajeet Banerjee — November 25, 2018
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Tens of thousands of Hindus gathered in northern India on Sunday, renewing calls to build a Hindu temple on a site where a 16th-century mosque was attacked and demolished by Hindu hard-liners in 1992.
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