hinduism

In the 2001 film, The Believer, a former Jewish student in a New York yeshiva becomes a Nazi skinhead who wants to exterminate his own community. The movie is based loosely on the life of Dan Burros. Born to Jewish parents, he attended a Hebrew school and had his Bar Mitzvah. Later he joined Lincoln [...]

The Coolie Emerges One factor that united media outlets across the political spectrum since the attacks on Hindus in Leicester and then Smethwick was how they blamed the street jihad violence as a natural outcome of Hindutva, Hindu nationalism and Hindu fascism in the UK. Of course, none of these media giants could provide any [...]

A meeting of influential Hindoos was held in Benares, to listen to an account of a visit paid by Kaboo Surajee to the Australian colonies, and to receive a proposition to form a Hindoo Missionary Society for these countries. The chair was taken by Maharaja Hyder Sawib who opened the proceedings by welcoming the distinguished [...]

Hindu Human Rights celebrated the first dictionary entry of the word Hinduphobia in mid 2021. Lexico online dictionary, powered by Oxford University Press, recognises the origins of Hinduphobia are mid-19th Century. This is around six decades before the Lexico origins of Islamophobia in 1920s. So why has it taken this long for the human rights [...]

Bharat Singh Walia practising the real traditional Hinduism that defeated Abrahmic imperialism otherwise like all the other ancient civilisations Hindus would also be in a museum.   [...]

Today Voice of Bangladeshi Hindus (VBH) on twitter was threatened by an alleged ‘fact checker’ @TheGuyFromBklyn is a guy with no followers and who follows only one handle: @DefMil- Bangladesh Defence Observer (BDO). It was a small thing that reminds of the Bangladeshi Hindu pogrom last year when ISKCON and other Bangladeshi Hindu accounts were [...]

The highly talented and expressive 5-year-old Atmanand, also called Unnikutan by Matha Amritanandamayi Devi has given many inspiring spiritual talks. More than 100 Children below 10 in Vallikau Ashram inspired by him have also become experts in Gita and other Hindu Scriptures. [...]

Today, many Ukrainians, including Ukrainian Hindus and others, are displaced and need help. Many of these Dharmic Ukrainians even refer to India as their spiritual home. Should India come forward to do more for these victims of war? [...]

Amazon series Man in the High Castle is based upon a book by the same name. Deviating quite substantially from the original book by Phillip K Dick written in 1962, it nevertheless keeps the basics of the plot. This is a world in which the Axis powers have won the war, with Germany having developed [...]

In a short clip from a recent debate, Madhu Kishwar points out while every mosque and madrassa create activists for Islam, the Hindu temples on the other hand regardless if they are in India or America, push the usual that just take darshan from the deities, say a few mantras and that's somehow Hinduism. [...]