Global Hindus

A Roman Catholic priest is collecting and saving hundreds of traditional pre-Christian religious artefacts in southeast Nigeria that new converts to Christianity had planned to burn. The collection includes carvings of pagan deities and masks, some of them more than a century old and considered central to the pre-Christian religion of the Igbo people, who traditionally [...]

While the world observes 'World Children’s Day', an 11-year-old Hindu boy was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Sindh. His body was found on Saturday in Babarloi town in Khairpur Mir's. According to family members, the boy, Kaana Sachdev, went missing on Friday evening and his body was later found in an abandoned house within the [...]

Former screen idol turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot was fined 20,000 euros by a court on France’s Indian Ocean island of La Reunion over a 2019 diatribe where she described its inhabitants as “savages”. “The natives have kept their savage genes,” the animal rights campaigner wrote in an open letter attacking the islanders for [...]

Author: Vamsee Juluri   Note: an edited version of this was first published in The Print on November 1, 2021. The version below restores some sentences and some links.   The meeting between India’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and (nobody said “Christian Expansionist”) Pope Francis reminds me of a phenomenon that media researchers have been talking about for over a century now – propaganda. Propaganda [...]

Critically Interrogating the Hinduphobia Narrative: Transcript of Lecture at Massey University CARE Institute on 25 August 2021. https://fb.watch/7BZ-d-cMi7/   [Kinakota kataha?Maori] I am professor Mohan Dutta Director of the Center for Culture -Centred Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) and I’m delighted to share with you my thoughts on Hindutva, the ideology of hate that [...]

A Hindu temple has been raided for the fifth time since May with thousands of pounds in cash stolen and rooms vandalised. Collection boxes with the money were taken from the Swindon Hindu Temple and doors were damaged in the break-in. The main altar of the temple – where the deities are placed – was [...]

  I write as a concerned Hindu academic in Australia due to a pattern of bullying by the Dean’s Chair in Communication at Massey University School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing. Professor Mohan J Dutta gave a lecture on 25 August denying the existence of Hinduphobia, arguing it is purely a political device to generate [...]

#Hinduphobia #Hindubashing #SOAS SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies. Anyone who has had the privilege of studying at this unique University of London institution can attest to how special this place is. Here you will find specialists in the languages, cultures, societies and religions of Africa and Asia, carrying out research and teaching in [...]

A group of Hindu community cricket players have been targeted by Hinduphobic racist thugs in South Australian capital Adelaide’s northern suburb Modbury Heights. As per local media reports, the Hindu group used to play cricket at Hargrave Reserve Pitch every weekend which has upset some residents. These locals allegedly think the Indian community players have taken [...]

Nine of us, Kashmiri Hindus living in FORCED EXILE for 30years now, were practicing our basic right of peaceful protest / demonstration (all being done very lawfully), when some RADICAL ISLAMISTS (i.e., not just any muslim) came into our personal space, THREATENED us, used PROFANITY and basically showed who they really are and what they [...]