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Sep 14 2009, Nitin Ticku

Source Hindustan Times

Around 50 Kashmiri Pandits today tonsured their heads here as a mark of protest on the 20th anniversary of the first killing of a community member by separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, which resulted to their mass...

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In this Sept. 15, 2008 filep photo, villagers use their sarongs to catch offerings thrown by Hindu worshippers during Kasada festival at Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia.