PUNAHA POKHRI (UTTARAKHAND): Thousands of Dalits led by outgoing BJP Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay and local activist Daulat Kunwar defied a centuries-old tradition on Friday and stormed a temple where their entry was earlier prohibited. However, soon after the community asserted their right to equal worship at the Silgur devta temple in Chakrata, around [...]
May 21, 2016
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The civil society and human rights activists staged a protest outside HPC on Thursday against the rape and murder of 10-year-old girl, Darshana d/o Sarwan Bajeer resident of Umarkot. On that occasion Advocate Bhagchand Bheel, Advocate Ashokh Bajeer and others said that now days the peaceful land of Sindh is being turned into land of fundamentalism, while [...]
May 19, 2016
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Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu (13th May 2016) – The Christian-majority Kanyakumari district saw a horrendous case of temple desecration by its majoritarian Christian police. The Koottalumoodu Bhagavathi Amman temple In Kanyakumari district of Tamilnadu (where christians are majority), conduct summer time festival every year. During the festival they burst firecrackers as part of festival at mid [...]
Hearing about the incident, more than 150 persons, belonging to various Hindu outfits gathered at Pudumund Police station .Tension prevailed near Hindustan Photo FIlm (HPF) area in the tourist town of Udhagamandalam (Ooty), following damage to eight Murthis of different gods in a temple, as a 40-year-old woman was taken for interrogation in this regard. [...]
May 13, 2016
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New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday submitted charge sheet before a special court against 10 accused in the double murder case of BJP leaders in Bharuch, claiming the killings were part of a larger conspiracy involving co-accused located in Pakistan and South Africa. Reportedly, the Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company had lured people by [...]
May 11, 2016
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East and west aren’t just directions in Girgaum’s Sicka Nagar. They are two vastly different educational concepts that reside in one building here. Right behind The Modern School — whose students troop in to class in a black-white-and-red camouflage of pants and chequered skirts — hides a traditional school, whose 100 students turn up daily [...]
In this article, Well known author Galina Krasskova examines how monotheism became the domain theme in our thinking, and how the deep spiritual beliefs of ancient and great civilisations were suppressed and obliterated with horrific violence. The same nefarious forces which now target Hindus committed crimes against humanity with their carnage and intolerance. It is [...]
When applied as such to the Indian culture, it leads to anti-Hinduism instead of anti-misogyny. To begin with, feminism has acquired a very wide scope in both geographical and opinion terms. If one googles the subject, one sees numerous kinds of feminists across countries and religions like radical feminists, sexist feminists, Marxist feminists, liberal feminists, [...]
Does Britain’s Labour Party have a Hindu Problem? In 2016, Hindu Human Rights exposed the Hinduphobia that was rampant in the Labour Party. Now with the exposure by BBC Panorama about not just apathy but actual complicity within the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn of antisemitism, it is timely that this report is updated with [...]