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a festival-selected short film about yoga, cultural appropriation, Hindu identity and what happens when a child is made to feel ashamed of his own culture. Shiv is a 10-year-old boy who does not want to be seen as Indian or Hindu. At school, he keeps his distance from Kali, his twin sister who is proud [...]

The whole world knows about the Western transatlantic slave trade or the Arab- Trans-Saharan, Red Sea, slave trade, but one that most don’t know or is intentionally ignored is the slave trade that took part during the Islamic period of India, first with invasions and then their rule of India. But then why blame others [...]

A bronze statue of Maharishi Sushruta, widely regarded as the Father of Surgery, has been unveiled at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, honouring India's ancient medical legacy and its historic ties with Scotland. Believed to have lived around 600 BCE, Sushruta authored the Sushruta Samhita, documenting hundreds of surgical procedures, diseases, medicinal plants and [...]

An Indian-origin homeowner in Texas said he was advised to remove a statue of Lord Ganesha from his residence after a realtor suggested that visible Hindu religious symbols could discourage potential buyers. The incident comes amid growing debate over immigration and changing demographics in parts of the United States under President Donald Trump’s stricter visa [...]

An 81-foot statue of Lord Ram, set to be the tallest in Bangladesh, has been forced to a grinding halt at 80% completion [...]

The right wing is presently going into cardiac arrest over a major exhibition in London at the National Portrait Gallery that has reopened the debate over Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine of 1943, which claimed up to three million lives.. The same people he quoted about when he said, “I hate Indians. They [...]

Israel is installing a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and the reason goes back 2000 years. The Bene Israel, one of India's oldest Jewish communities, served in Shivaji Maharaj's army and navy along the Konkan coast, fought in the Maratha Empire, and later distinguished themselves in the British Indian Army. Associate Editor Radhika Dhawad tells [...]

With a civil war about to be unleashed, thanks to the continuing appeasing by the Government which is now letting a city council decision overturn a decision for a Hindu temple to be now taken over by Islamists, it is no surprise. Worshippers from the Bharat Hindu Samaj temple on Rock Road in Peterborough are [...]

Anyone who has seen the classic Vampire Diaries series will recognise the talented Ian Somerhalder, who starred as Damon Salvatore, a chief vampire with a whole history of cruel violence and madness going back over a 100 years from where the story starts. So it’s probably natural he’s now hanging around with a Hindu pagan [...]

In a country of a billion Hindus, where Hindus get killed regularly while Hindus cry online and Hindu temples never raise these issues, another Hindu was killed when A 17-year-old Surya Pratap Chauhan,a school student, was savagely stabbed to death in the Khoda area of Ghaziabad on Thursday during Eid celebrations by Arab colonised slaves [...]