It doesn’t happen often, but here I must totally disagree with David Frawley ( Read : Hindus Need Long Term Political Strategy And Dharmic ). Or should I say: with the Sangh Parivar, for this is the standard argument I have heard from them for more than twenty years. The central refrain is “unity”. This [...]
April 23, 2016
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Authorities have allegedly refused to make official the marriage of a Hindu man and a Muslim woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri town, fearing a resurgence of last year’s communal tensions sparked by the mob-lynching of 52-year-old Mohammad Ikhlaq over rumours that he slaughtered a calf. The couple from Chitehra village have failed to get their [...]
April 23, 2016
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AGARTALA: Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said on Thursday that he tried to open a dialogue with the Islamic State group but it rebuffed him by sending him a photograph of a beheaded man “I tried to initiate peace talks with the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) recently but they sent me [...]
April 23, 2016
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New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said yoga cannot be identified with any religion and people who think so lack integrity, coordination and balance. The Minister said yoga has a universal appeal and more than 170 countries, including 66 Muslim nations, had backed the resolution on the International Yoga Day in the [...]
April 23, 2016
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“Judges should not dictate religious practises. Political activists should not be allowed to use temples for political agitation.” – Dr David Frawley Visiting Hindu temples is an amazing experience, an inner journey through history, culture and cosmic dimensions. Each temple is profoundly unique with its own identity. Such temples represent one of the most important [...]
April 23, 2016
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Back in 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India condemned animal rights activist who have sought to protect cows from the butcher’s knife: “I feel really angry at the way some people have opened shops in the name of cow protection. I have seen that some people commit anti-social activities through the night, but act as cow [...]
Dr David Frawley a.k.a. Pandit Vamadeva Shastri speaking his view on Hindus and Hinduism in the modern day context [...]
April 17, 2016
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The Supreme Court has reduced the polymorphic religion to a bunch of meaningless myths. On the Sabrimala temple issue, the Supreme Court of India observed on April 13, 2016: “In Hindu dharma there is no denomination of a male or female. A Hindu is a Hindu.” And just like that a constitutional body has, probably [...]
April 16, 2016
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A PHD Student at IIT Bombay recently was given a anti India/Hindu propagandist leaflet at his collage campus and this is his view on it [...]
This is the video I made to show the process of creating my Sri Hanuman Chalisa Book. It goes step by step from the inspiration to the carving of the blocks to the printing, painting and digital design. It is accompanied by a Hanuman Chalisa being sung by David Estes (Ananda Rasa kirtan) and me. [...]