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On 18 March 2012, the BBC broadcast its morning debate show the Big Questions: In the above video ( start 4.28 ) the late Dilip Lakhani of the Vivekananda Centre was lambasted by Canon Chris Sugden for the caste system caused by Hindu beliefs. Sugden further argued that Hinduism only went into its renaissance due to [...]

I am an American like many other Americans, born into a family of mixed European and Native American ancestry. My interest in my own origins started early. I knew that my European ancestors were pagans who were converted to Abrahamic faiths, and that my Native ancestors were pagans mostly obliterated by those Europeans. I knew [...]

This stotra is in Sanskrit and it is creation of Vibhishana- Ravana’s brother. Initially this stotra starts with praise of shri Hanuman admiring his virtues and describing his tremendous power. Then very wisely, God Hanuman is requested by the devotee to remove all the diseases, bad health and all sorts of troubles from the life. Further God [...]

“Time is not just a concept that we invented; it is deep-rooted in the system, in the very way we are made.” – Sadhguru Time – the invisible current behind every story. And Mahabharat is no exception. In this video, Sadhguru gives us an eye-opening insight through the ancient concept of yugas (eras or ages [...]

Bazzu Uzaman befriended, wooed and married the young girl, only to subject her to abuse; when she tried to extricate herself from the marriage, he abducted her and used his razor blade on her for nine days, leaving a mesh of surface injuries all over her body. While many faceless, nameless women are sure to [...]

A holy man uttering a special chant succeeded today in calming a group of snarling tigers that had chased five men up a tree, leaving them trapped there for nearly five days.As the holy man uttered his mantra – a mind-calming chant that originates in ancient India – the tigers turned tail and slipped back [...]

This is the richest and most powerful nation on earth, arguably the most successful society ever. Yet as Panorama revealed children go to school, hungry as their parents are forced to rely on free food handouts or eat rats. People live in drains literally beneath the glitzy glamour of Las Vegas . An operation for [...]

A county judge in San Diego CA has ruled that yoga is not always religious (Washington Post, 2 July 2013). Parents in a San Diego school district had complained that yoga is intrinsically intertwined with the Hindu religion and that its practice in a public school setting violates the constitutional separation of church and state. [...]

Hemant Bhadury (left) and Dr. Jayant Kumar Bhadury (far right) are yoga masters who travel to Israel annually to bring comfort to about 120 residents of a sheltered home for Holocaust survivors. They appear in a picture with their family, including father Shri Shri Brama Kopal Bhadury (seated, center) and Jayant’s wife Vatsala (seated, right) [...]

Many people have heard about the Kama sutra, but generally the ideas that circulate are rather distorted, vague and confused by ignorance and prejudice. [...]