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The testimony of a sanyasi or mendicant who renounced the world and follows an ascetic life cannot be accepted in a civil dispute by a court of law, the Supreme Court has held. The order came on a plea filed by the sanyasi’s family which wanted the Haryana government to return their 30 acres in [...]

Last week a few marginal media reported that archaeologist KK Muhammad had a startling revelation on the responsibility for the Ayodhya controversy and all its concomitant bloodshed.   Young people may not know what the affair, around 1990, was all about. Briefly, Hindus had wanted to build proper temple architecture on one of their sacred sites, [...]

Pro-Isis slogans and threats of an imminent terror attack have been daubed on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in a small village in north-western India.Images from the scene showed the face of the white statue had been smeared with brown paint, while the rest of the statue was covered in crude writing, including the word [...]

Not one person has been convicted, leave alone punished for the massacre of more than a thousand Hindus of the Valley. January 19, 1990, a date etched in our collective memory, a date that is hard to forget no matter how hard one tries to erase the memories of that night, they come back to [...]

Namaste readers! My name is Stephanie Ellison.  I am a Sanātani (Hindu) and have been for many years at varying levels.  I first became exposed to it when I was studying to be a Natural Hygienist in Austin, Texas in 1994-95.  Natural Hygiene has many of the elements of taking care of your health in [...]

People of Karnataka revere him as ‘Nadedaduva Devaru; ‘Walking God’. When you see the amount of work done by this frail 108 year old Seer in the field of education and rural development, you know exactly why. When I entered the small village a few kilometres before the town of Tumkur that houses the SiddaGanga [...]

The death of a teenager who was set on fire by three people, including two brothers, who accused him of stealing vehicle batteries has acquired a communal colour in Pune. While the 17-year-old’s father has alleged that his son was burnt alive after he identified himself as a Hindu, a purported video of the boy [...]

A French museum has returned the head of a 7th Century Hindu statue to Cambodia 130 years after it was taken. The statue, a representation of the Hindu gods Vishna and Shiva, had its head taken in French colonial times. It was returned by the Guimet Museum in Paris at Cambodia’s request and reattached to [...]

DASNA/RORI/MEERUT: From the outskirts of India’s capital to the Uttarakhand border, an outfit known as Hindu Swabhiman is raising and training what it calls a “dharma sena” to wage war against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), which it believes will occupy western UP by 2020. Its leaders claim there are already 15,000 “soldiers” who are [...]

As part of his latest book launch of ‘The Battle of Sanskrit’ author Rajiv Malhotra gives a thought provoking talk at the Samskrita Bharati, Bangalore relating to various subjects in the book and much more…In English and Hindi [...]