An amendment to the Equality Act 2010 has banned discrimination based on caste. What will be the effect of this? The starry-eyed idealists who backed the legislation purport that it will give protection to Asians in Britain who have hitherto been denied the safety net of basic dignity. These anti-caste groups are equivocal that Hindu [...]
A video that exposes some Lords including Gunga-dins in UK playing caste politics to attack the Hindu community by lying with facts and figures at the House of Lords.Some of these ‘Lord’s have links with christian fundamentalist groups. So this debate is part of a larger agenda set for breaking up India. [...]
What is Yoga? Hinduism. Some 5,000 years ago, there were people living in a place which came to be known as the (H)indus river valley. It was these (H)indus that created the religious language known as Sanskrit. The Sanskrit/Hindu word “Yoga” means: “Yuj Atman Brahman ca,” (“To yoke to one’s individual Soul and Soul Source.”) [...]
Note. Personally cant really see any problem when most of the HHR team are all born in the West and are not only proud Hindus but Hindu activists as well ) How do you teach your children about religion, particularly your own? Are the parents responsible for this vital task, or should they call in [...]
In media accounts today, particularly in India, it seems that any group which identifies itself as Hindu or tries to promote any Hindu cause is quickly and uncritically defined as ‘right-winged’. In the Marxist accounts that commonly come from the Indian press, Hindu organizations are routinely called fundamentalists, militants or even fascists. This may be [...]
April 8, 2013
Vamadev Shastri
Analysis/Insights
Pandit Vamadev Shastri shows how western academics and Indologists lack the insight to the deeper meanings behind Vedic Symbolic Language used in the Vedas to come to their conclusions. The Twofold Modern Denigration of the Vedas: Historical and Spiritual The nineteenth era marked a twofold assessment of Vedic culture that arose from western scholars and [...]
April 4, 2013
Vamadev Shastri
Analysis/Insights, Archives
Dr Koenraad Elst puts forward his view there is no mention of Reincarnation in the Rig Veda. We will follow this up in part 2 to see if if it is mentioned : No rebirth in the Rg-Veda In my article about Sati, I had written that Sati dates back to the time when the [...]
April 4, 2013
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights, Archives
IN THE upper reaches of the Ganga, numerous hydel projects threaten the river’s ecosystem. And in the plains, as the river flows through the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, a toxic mix of untreated sewage, discarded garbage, agricultural run-off and industrial waste flow unabated into it. Hindus regard the Ganga water [...]
Devotees went for a traditional bath to mark the Karthik Purnima religious ceremony celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu calendar month of Karthik Images of the foam-coated river show the extent of the pollution of the Yamuna around New Delhi Indian government has spent nearly £200 million trying to clean up the [...]
The allegation that the chief minister of Gujarat did nothing to prevent a ‘series of orchestrated riots’ in 2001 is indeed serious. This needs some deliberation and analysis since this has been the most frequently made charge against Modi, says Colonel (retd) Anil Athale. Just when one thought that enough ink has been spilled on [...]
March 27, 2013
HHR
Analysis/Insights