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Opinion: India's Religious Violence Doesn't Meet Its Founder's Vision

As India is facing major tensions over a new law Muslims say discriminates against them, NRP's Scott Simon notes the country's history of rich religious diversity.
An employee checking flags at the Indian National Flag Production Center in the southern state of Karnataka.

Years ago, I covered a protest by thousands of people in their underwear.

Civil servants in Calcutta, now called Kolkata, opposed a plan to replace the nylon kurta, that loose, long blouse worn by many Indian government workers, with

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