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As you pull into the driveway of the Sri Lakshmi Hindu Temple in the Boston suburb of Ashland, Sanskrit chants reverberate from a building across the way where free classes are being held. From seven-year-olds to 70-year-olds, people in Boston, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities over the U.S. are attending [...]

BUENOS AIRES: If you’re ever in Buenos Aires don’t forget to visit Groove, a trendy nightclub that should pleasantly surprise any Indian. Because at Groove you won’t hear salsa or reggaton music, like you do at most such places, but instead soulful Sanskrit melodies that rent the air. “I had the most unusual nightclub experience [...]

The Indus River in Karakoram Range near Skardu, Pakistan, remains a lifeline even in the modern day Climate change led to the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization more than 4,000 years ago, archaeologists believe. The Indus civilization was the largest – but least known – of the first great urban cultures that also included [...]

Dr Koenraad Elst explores the truth behind the often made claim that Buddha was a caste reformist [...]

Church of Scotland 'Worship of False Idols' remark hurt Hindus [...]

Groups representing Sikh and Hindu communities have complained about the term “Asian” being used to describe the men involved in grooming trials. Earlier this month, nine men were jailed for being part of a sex ring in Rochdale which groomed girls for sex. The groups said the men involved were “almost always of Pakistani origin” [...]

Some Hindus ask me, as a sympathizing outsider, if I have any advice for them when they want to revive their fortunes. In principle, I have no advice; it would be arrogant to pretend to know something that the people concerned are not so sure about. But then again, Hindus are no different from others, [...]

Eating food with the hands in today’s Western society can sometimes be perceived as being unhygienic, bad mannered and primitive. However within Indian culture there is an old saying that " eating food with your hands feeds not only the body but also the mind and the spirit". [...]

Kali is one of the best known, but poorly understood forms of the Goddess. She is dark destructive and terrible in image. She is allied to the forces of death and destruction. The most common image of Kali shows her dancing on Shiva. This article aims to give an insight into Hinduism\'s use of such [...]

Most 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants who are born and brought up in a country could never imagine being expelled from it, and one would hope that such an event would never happen. Yet Ugandan Indians had been settled in the country for an even longer time. They were uprooted almost overnight, their homes, businesses [...]