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Gunga Din is a character from a classic Rudyard Kipling poem, and was adapted into a film of the same name in 1939. In that production, Gunda Din is a simple water bearer who sacrifices his life in order to save the white British soldiers from rebel forces of the Thugee. The film is now [...]

Over the Wendy Doniger Book withdrawal (NOT BAN) from Penguin we have seen worldwide protests from a veritable swarm of defenders of freedom of speech. As usual these self-righteous pompous airheads have been calling Hindus fascists, extremist Nazis, fundamentalists and anything else that their plethora of vilifying vocabulary can be employed in order to make [...]

If a poem is a projection of the poet’s mind and heart, this one being taught at Calicut University has made many people uncomfortable. Why? Because the poet here is an ideologue of terror group Al Qaeda! Ibrahim al-Rubaish’s ‘Ode to the Sea’ captures his feelings during his incarceration in the Guantanamo Bay prison on [...]

The recent withdrawal from Penguin Publishing of ‘The Hindus’ by veteran anti-Hindu academic and rabble rouser Wendy Doniger has brought out the usual useful idiots who clamour for freedom of speech. What these ardent democrat so conveniently forget is that it is demagogues like Doniger who have used their positions of influence to crush that [...]

Bollywood actor Salman Khan went to Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai, this Sunday(Feb 9) to offer his prayers along with co-actor Daisy Shah. Apparently, the actor wanted to thank God after his latest film entered the Rs.100-crore club. The much-awaited film, which released on January 24, did not draw an overwhelming response from the audience and [...]

  The Ganju family are among 500,000 Kashmiri Hindus who were forced to flee their native land because of terrorist acts committed against them. “We Hindus were threatened,” said Chandramukhi Ganju, who left Kashmir with her family in 1989. “We had to run from that place.” Kashmir, whose population is mostly Muslim, has been bitterly [...]

ITANAGAR, Arunachal Pradesh — Though the event they advertised had passed a month earlier, the neon-colored posters remained, clinging to the state capital’s walls, lampposts and storefronts. On them were invitations to Indigenous Faith Day celebrations on Dec. 1, with slogans like “Culture without faith is body without soul,” and, more pointedly, “Imitation of alien [...]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking ban on use of images of Hindu deities on packets of tobacco and other products as well as wedding cards and calenders, saying that respect to God is an issue of “personal sentiments”. The petitioner has said use of pictorial representations [...]

Satkhira is enlisted as one of the ‘vulnerable’ areas of the country where specialised forces are running drives Twenty Hindu families received anonymous letters yesterday, threatening them to leave their homes in Satkhira – an area considered to be a stronghold of Jamaat-e-Islami. “You have been living here for a long time. Not anymore. Either [...]

Even after demonstrating physical, mental and spiritual fierce resistance for a thousand years,  while all other ancient civilisations ended up in a museum, today’s Hindu seems to be apologetic over his or her own existence, and desperately begs for acceptance by others especially the very people that attempted to destroy them in the first place. [...]