The brutal murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati (1927–2008) was blamed for sparking of a wave of killings where rampaging Hindus massacred innocent Christians in India’s eastern state of Orissa. At least that was the view from reading the western media outlets which rely heavily on extremist and hardcore fundamentalist Christian outfits for their information. [...]
Recently, several University of Pennsylvania professors made accusations in The Daily Pennsylvanian against the Indian politician Narendra Modi as part of a campaign of social pressure that managed to stop his presentation at the Wharton India Economic Forum. The facts I will present here should encourage Hindus and others who have reacted against such tactics [...]
With the Growing interest in Yoga and Ayurveda around the world its not surprising that David Frawley’s (Vamadev Shastri) popular book ‘Yoga and Ayurveda’ has hit at number 2 on Turkey’s Best Sellers List this week. ‘Yoga and Ayurveda’ together form a complete approach for optimal health, vitality and higher awareness. YOGA AND AYURVEDA reveals [...]
March 18, 2013
HHR
News updates, Review
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami ,confronting a long-standing misapprehension about our faith,showing us why Hinduism is more than a way of life. [...]
The Rg-Vedic reference to Sati The Rg-Veda contains a famous passage mentioning Sati – and preventing it. To a widow who is with her husband on his funeral pyre, the text says: rise up, abandon this dead man and re-join the living (10:18:8). The Vedic testimony proves two things: (1) Sati already existed, and (2) [...]
March 13, 2013
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights
Women in the forefront for India’s Freedom Struggle It is commonly held that the arrival of the British created new opportunities for women and greatly increased their rights. What is conveniently forgotten is that women in Britain did not even get the vote until 1918, and full equality in areas such as pay, housing, employment, [...]
February 21, 2013
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights
For Hindi Version go to : भारत का स्वरुप कैसा हो? सेकुलर या हिन्दू? “Hinduism, which is the most skeptical and the most believing of all, the most skeptical because it has questioned and experimented the most, the most believing because it has the deepest experience and the most varied and positive spiritual knowledge, that [...]
February 17, 2013
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights
It was only a matter of time before the anti-Hindu elements emerged from the gutter to exploit the horrific rape and murder of the 23 year old student in Delhi. The first was Sunny Hundal who used his platform in the Guardian to launch a tirade against the worship of the sacred feminine as providing [...]
February 2, 2013
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights
The following 4 part series of articles with a final conclusion article by Sandeep from The Rediscovery of India blog exposes the distortions and misinformation being spread by the Indian hindu hating collective. Please read and be armed with knowledge when facing such garbage which is being promoted in mainstream Indian media and academia presently. [...]
January 27, 2013
HHR
Analysis/Insights
The UPA Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, is but the umpteenth to repeat in public the notion of “Hindu terrorism” and to apply it to the RSS and BJP. Predictably, the RSS and BJP react furiously. They say they have nothing to do with Hindu terrorism, and that the lone Hindu terrorist Nathuram Godse, the [...]
January 24, 2013
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights