Analysis/Insights

It shows that the older spiritual idea of India is still strong and is undergoing a resurgence. Today two different ideas of India are struggling with each other in a cultural war that is likely to continue for some time. The first can be called the “Nehruvian idea” of a modern post-independence India as a [...]

Aside from the Bhagavad Gita and a sampling of the vast compendium of Hindu dharmic teachings, relatively few important texts have a comprehensive and detailed modern translation.  This is especially true for the Vedas.  For insight and understanding in English of ancient texts, such as the Vedas, one must often rely upon translations dating back [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over the recent years there’s been a whole range of Hindu Blogs appearing over the net promoting Hindu based news.Much of the material is often plagiarized from various other blogs and even from the HHR website.But what’s been more worrying is that HHR has received several complaints over time claiming that many of these blogs [...]

Back in 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India condemned animal rights activist who have sought to protect cows from the butcher’s knife:   “I feel really angry at the way some people have opened shops in the name of cow protection. I have seen that some people commit anti-social activities through the night, but act as cow [...]

The Supreme Court has reduced the polymorphic religion to a bunch of meaningless myths. On the Sabrimala temple issue, the Supreme Court of India observed on April 13, 2016: “In Hindu dharma there is no denomination of a male or female. A Hindu is a Hindu.” And just like that a constitutional body has, probably [...]

Pakistani journalist Shaan Khan’s piece “What’s Really Behind India’s Rape Crisis,” published this Friday (25/3/16) on The Daily Beast, looks at China and India — two countries with similarly skewed sex ratios — and asks why India in the last few years has experienced a “rape crisis,” while China has not. At the outset, one [...]

A SUGGESTED sermon produced by the Church of England for clerics attempting to tackle the stigma of mental health pulls no punches. Written by the Rev Eva McIntyre on behalf of the Church’s Archbishops’ Council and the Time to Change mental health campaign, it suggests John the Baptist, St Paul, St Francis and other figures [...]