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United Nations too Christian, claims report

United Nations too Christian, claims report

Study calls for greater religious tolerance with Hinduism and Buddhism under-represented and funding a major issue Christianity dominates the United Nations and more diversity is needed to increase non-Christian representation in world peacemaking, according to a study. Research undertaken by Prof Jeremy Carrette, with colleagues from the University of Kent’s department of religious studies, has [...]

January 3, 2014 HHR Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

Was Jesus really born?

Was Jesus really born?

“Let me tell you at the outset that Jesus is no mythological mumbo-jumbo like your Rama and Krishna, and even Buddha. On the contrary, he was a solid historical figure whose miracles were witnessed and vouchsafed by many contemporary people,” said a Jesuit missionary to Sita Ram Goel. Let us have a closer look at [...]

December 25, 2013 HHR Analysis/Insights, Articles 0

The Secular Princess and the Hindu Pauper

The Secular Princess and the Hindu Pauper

Back in 2013 India was involved in a heated verbal exchange with America over the treatment meted out to Devyani Khobragade, Deputy Consul General in the Consulate General of India in New York. Khobragade hired Sangeeta Richard, an Indian national, in November 2012 as a nanny and domestic servant. She was charged on 11 December [...]

December 20, 2013 Ranbir Singh Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

Shape Shifting World of Maya

Shape Shifting World of Maya

‘Thus, Maya is not an ignorance, a separation from the totality of the truth, but a transcendental power that is the expression of a divine integral knowledge, where each and every force and form that manifest is united in a totality of truth.If I see a beautiful painting, it is not an illusion that separates [...]

December 14, 2013 HHR Analysis/Insights, Archives, Hindu Wisdom, News updates 0

Amnesty fears attacks on Hindus

Amnesty fears attacks on Hindus

Amnesty International has expressed apprehension that hanging of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla will trigger reprisal attacks with country’s minority Hindu community bearing the brunt of it. It also termed the execution as a disgrace as the rights body is opposed to the death penalty in “all cases without exception.” “The execution of Abdul Quader [...]

December 13, 2013 HHR Analysis/Insights, Bangladesh 0

How Movie Slumdog Millionaire Was Distorted into Anti Hindu Propaganda

How Movie Slumdog Millionaire Was Distorted into Anti Hindu Propaganda

In the framework of Europalia India, a string of institutions including my Alma Mater, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, hosts a series of exhibitions, performances, films showings, conferences and lectures. Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal was to speak in Brussels and Leuven, but he didn’t show up, being detained in a sex scandal. [...]

December 13, 2013 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights, Archives, Hinduphobia, World Focus 1

In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

Perhaps surprisingly in a country where so many people view cows as sacred, India could soon become the world’s biggest beef exporter, according to the USDA. DELHI/MUMBAI: Symbols of India’s emergence as an economic powerhouse line the four-lane highway to Jaipur out of New Delhi: a factory owned by the world’s biggest motorbike maker, glass [...]

December 12, 2013 HHR Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

Homosexuality and Hinduism

Homosexuality and Hinduism

Hindu texts have discussed variations in gender and sexuality for over two millennia. Like the erotic sculptures on ancient Hindu temples at Khajuraho and Konarak, sacred texts in Sanskrit constitute irrefutable evidence that the whole range of sexual behavior was known to ancient Hindus. When Europeans arrived in India, they were shocked by Hinduism, which [...]

December 12, 2013 HHR Analysis/Insights 0

Proud to be ‘educated’?

Proud to be ‘educated’?

Indians have brains. This news has spread by now. I read about an Indian girl in a school in U.S. who complained that her American peers expected her to excel simply because she was Indian. There are statistics which show that NRIs in U.S. are doing exceptionally well, that their percentage in organizations like NASA [...]

December 3, 2013 HHR Analysis/Insights 0

Notorious Wendy Doniger hosted by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

Notorious Wendy Doniger hosted by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

“On Hinduism is a treat. For those who already know and admire Wendy Doniger’s work, this is a handy (if hefty) compendium of many of her essays…. For those who are reading her for the first time, the book is a marvellous introduction to the multiple ways that Hinduism can be approached and understood through [...]

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