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India expects Australia to return 900-year-old ‘Dancing Shiva’ statue, other sculptures: Indian High Commissioner

India expects Australia to return 900-year-old ‘Dancing Shiva’ statue, other sculptures: Indian High Commissioner

India last Wednesday said it expects Australia to return a 900-year-old ‘Dancing Shiva’ statue and another stone sculpture bought from a disgraced Indian antiquities dealer. “We are satisfied with the steps taken and cooperation extended by the Australian government in response to this issue,” India’s High Commissioner Biren Nanda said in Melbourne. “We had formally requested [...]

June 7, 2014 HHR Archives, India, News updates 0

Modi Speech Galvanizes Sindhis Around the World

Modi Speech Galvanizes Sindhis Around the World

A recent speech by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the praise of Sindhi culture has created a sudden interest in the Sindhi heritage and culture and has galvanized the Sindhi communities around the world. “I just finished listening to the PM’s remarks as Rita (my wife) got a YouTube link to it just today! [...]

June 6, 2014 HHR Archives, HHR Videos, India 0

Muslim woman who married a Hindu refuses to back down

Muslim woman who married a Hindu refuses to back down

For the last seven years, Zarinah Abdul Majid had been making frequent trips to the Shariah Court and the National Registration Department (NRD) hoping to remove the word “Islam” from her identity card, as she is not a practising Muslim. She said she spent thousands of ringgit hiring lawyers to help but it was all [...]

June 5, 2014 HHR Archives, Malaysia 0

Sanskrit finally goes Hip in Indian Parliament

Sanskrit finally goes Hip in Indian Parliament

Sanskrit was the new cool on social media on Wednesday after three cabinet ministers were seen taking oath as members of Parliament in the ancient language. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan took oath in Sanskrit as members of the 16th Lok Sabha. But were they [...]

June 5, 2014 HHR Archives, India 0

Kashmiri Pandits threaten to ‘fast-unto-death’ unless temple and shrines bill is passed in J&K

Kashmiri Pandits threaten to ‘fast-unto-death’ unless temple and shrines bill is passed in J&K

Kashmiri Pandits on Wednesday staged a protest at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk and threatened to launch fast-unto-death sit-ins if the Kashmir Temples and Shrines Bill was not passed in the J&K Assembly. The Bill is pending for the past five years. Apart from the Temples and Shrines Bill, Kashmiri Pandits asked the state government to investigate [...]

June 5, 2014 HHR Archives, India 0

Ancient Hindu temple statues returned to Cambodia

Ancient Hindu temple statues returned to Cambodia

Cambodia has welcomed home three ancient Hindu statues, which were stolen from a temple decades ago. Authorities said the statues were looted from the Koh Ker temple in Siem Reap province, which also houses Angkor Wat, during the civil war. The statues which were returned from the United States, depict mythological figures Duryodhana, Balarama and [...]

June 4, 2014 HHR Archives, Cambodia - Kampuchea 0

Secularism : A Christian Sect ?

Secularism : A Christian Sect ?

This will no doubt come as a shock to the advocates of secularism in India . Dawkins’ statement is a frank confession of how far from being devoid of ‘religion’, secularism has always been an intimate twin of Christianity. The term "secularism" was first used by the agnostic (not ‘atheist’) British writer George Jacob Holyoake [...]

June 3, 2014 Ranbir Singh Analysis/Insights, Archives, News updates, World Focus 0

Close on heels of BJP win in India, Hindu-American activists pitch for select US candidates

Close on heels of BJP win in India, Hindu-American activists pitch for select US candidates

WASHINGTON: Close on the heels of the spectacular BJP win in the general election, Hindu-American activists in the United States have for the first time, under the banner of a political action committee, publicly endorsed a slate of congressional candidates in the 2014 US primaries. Leading the list of candidates winning support from the Hindu [...]

June 2, 2014 HHR Archives, News updates 0

HRD Minister Smriti Irani wants ancient texts in education

HRD Minister Smriti Irani wants ancient texts in education

New Delhi: The new BJP government has taken initial steps towards introducing the Hindu perspective in the education system. It is learnt that human resources development minister Smriti Irani has asked HRD officials to develop educational material that encapsulates the contribution of ancient Indians in different fields like science, mathematics, social sciences, philosophy, grammar and [...]

May 30, 2014 HHR Archives, India 0

2002 Gujarat riots : What The Media Dont Want You To Know

2002 Gujarat riots : What The Media Dont Want You To Know

On a visit to UK (2015) we once again witnessed recycled half-truths and vilifications replete with false allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi doing their rounds in the Indian and Western media regarding the 2002 Gujarat Riots. One of the biggest accusations by the media has been that as chief minister of Gujarat Modi never [...]

May 29, 2014 HHR Archives, India 1
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