Global Hindus

Priests and devotees at temples in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are in a state of fear as half-a-dozen such places of worship have been vandalised and burgled over the past ten days, with cash stolen from donation boxes and even ornaments adorning idols stolen. [...]

Hinduphobia, of course, has not been clearly argued or presented, despite being a word with a far longer anti-colonial, anti-“White supremacy,” history than a word like Islamophobia, it remains stuck in fringe social media usage because of the sheer obliviousness of our Starbucks activist upper class Hindus. Hinduphobia is not seen as a human rights reality [...]

Unlike most Hindu orgs run by self-appointed Hindu spokespeople who don’t even know the ABC of Hinduism or have the skills to articulate the Hindu cause , Australian Hindu Association has a clear strategy backed by active Hindus along much more as explained by Shree Amendra Singh,Councillor Suman Saha and Namrata Singh. Check for more [...]

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 is everywhere, even [...]

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 [...]