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Intolerance only rising in media: Stop bashing Mr Modi, Vedic science

Intolerance only rising in media: Stop bashing Mr Modi, Vedic science

There are those who consider a lecture on ancient discipline as intolerable as a beheading. During the last few months many journalists have raged against perceived excesses and moral lapses of the Indian government. In turn, the journalists have been criticised in the social media for their hypocrisy. Many historians have also piled on in [...]

November 4, 2015 HHR Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

Indian Film Festival rejects world’s third Sanskrit Film ‘Priyamanasam’ for showcasing Hindu deities

Indian Film Festival rejects world’s third Sanskrit Film ‘Priyamanasam’ for showcasing Hindu deities

HENB | Kochi | Oct 16, 2015:: The 20th International Film Festival of Kerala being staged in Kerala has placed a ban on Sanskrit movie ‘Priyamanasam’. According to reports, the movie that was shortlisted was later omitted to suit the conveniences of certain individual interests and because the movie “showcased Hindu deities”. “Priyamanasam” is  the third-ever Sanskrit full [...]

October 21, 2015 HHR Archives, India 0

Was the Dadri lynching really about ‘eating beef’?

Was the Dadri lynching really about ‘eating beef’?

‘Even if the media is partisan, the BJP, governing at the Centre, has the most to lose if India descends into widespread communal violence.’‘Fanning the flames either by vested political interests or by partisan reports only plays into the hands of those seek a conflagration,’ argues Sankrant Sanu.A recent article in the Washington Post leads [...]

October 9, 2015 HHR Archives, India 0

Dissecting Hinduism : The Curious Case of Dr Christopher Wallis the Tantrik

Dissecting Hinduism : The Curious Case of Dr Christopher Wallis the Tantrik

Among the many attacks on Hindus and Hinduism  comes a whole movement to dissect away many Hindu practices like Yoga and now Tantra  as ‘non’ Hindu . Dr Koenraad Elst debates with Dr Christopher Wallis on this dissection in the following interactions ‘ HHR editor > In the Indian media, I once saw a beginning [...]

August 28, 2015 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights 0

How YOGA became ANTI-YOGA

How YOGA became ANTI-YOGA

On a spring day a long time ago, a hunter killed one of a pair of birds while in their courtship dance. Such cruelty said the sage Valmiki can only mean one thing. We are now bereft of values and social and ecological disaster looms for future generations. “Is there no one that is upright [...]

July 27, 2015 HHR The Yoga Snatchers 0

The ‘Respected’ Hinduphobic Academia Vs Rajiv Malhotra

The ‘Respected’ Hinduphobic Academia Vs Rajiv Malhotra

It was once prophesised that fascism or at least various forms of totalitarianism would sneak back by camouflaging themselves as an indefinable ‘freedom’. Now under this ‘freedom’ western academics and their willing collaborators in India’s universities, media and political chattering class were able to crush anything remotely smacking of India’s civilisational genius as reactionary Hindutva [...]

July 24, 2015 Ranbir Singh Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

Central Russian Officials Crack Down on Yoga in Bid to Stifle Spread of Occultism

Central Russian Officials Crack Down on Yoga in Bid to Stifle Spread of Occultism

Officials in the city of Nizhnevatrovsk reportedly fear that Hatha yoga is a practice with “an occult character.” Officials in the central Russian city of Nizhnevartovsk have moved to prevent municipal buildings from hosting yoga classes in a stated bid to stifle the spread of religious cults, the Kommersant business daily reported. Representatives of at least two of the city’s Hatha yoga studios — the Aura and Ingara — have [...]

July 1, 2015 HHR Archives, World Focus 0

Church bodies in Nagaland and Manipur oppose Yoga Day on Sunday

Church bodies in Nagaland and Manipur oppose Yoga Day on Sunday

A church body in Mizoram has gone a step further and urged people not to take part in Yoga Day. Two days before the Centre’s plans to celebrate International Yoga Day kicks off, church bodies in both Nagaland and Mizoram have expressed their opposition, saying the events to mark the day would hurt religious sentiments [...]

June 20, 2015 HHR Articles, News updates 0

Have Hindus been systematically written out of the script by the Mainstream Media in India?

Have Hindus been systematically written out of the script by the Mainstream Media in India?

A very interesting debate hosted by Dr Manish Pandit discussing secularism, monotheism, Narendra Modi and general Hinduphobia with Panelists: Maria Wirth, Dr Gautam Sen, Saiswaroopa Iyer and Prakash Shah. [...]

May 2, 2015 HHR HHR Videos 0

Time to speak up against the Hinduphobia of foreign writers

Time to speak up against the Hinduphobia of foreign writers

Vamsee Juluri, professor of media studies at the University of San Francisco, speaks up for the anonymous Hindu who, he says, was silent all those years of colonial rule only to be criticized as an ‘oppressor’ post-Independence. His new book ‘Rearming Hinduism’ seeks to restore to the millennia-old faith its intellectual heritage by reintroducing Hinduism [...]

March 29, 2015 HHR Analysis/Insights, Archives 0
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