India

LAST week I wrote about a group that was determined to prove that Hindus had always killed cows since the Vedas had allowed it. To support their assertions, practically every Sanskrit shloka has been mistranslated in order to fit into the theory. I spent five years looking at translations when I wrote my dictionaries on [...]

Says Vatican-backed Norway is sidetracking his effort at brokering seminal peace deal between Colombian government and FARC guerillas  India’s foreign office is keeping itself updated on an interesting, if trifle peculiar, slugfest that’s currently on between the Vatican and Indian spiritual guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The Art of Living (AOL) Foundation founder is miffed [...]

Video Shows The Shocking Reality Of The Way Our Gods Are Treated After The Festivities Are Over As thousands of devotees from across India are immersing the Ganpati Murthis into the rivers. This shocking video shows what happens after the festivities are over. Our ‘Gods’ are disrespected and chucked into dirty rivers. [...]

What are the reasons that have made Mark Zuckerberg, a 31-year-old, a household name? You will say hard work, razor sharp brain, impressive tech vision, incredible business acumen, right opportunities and probably just a tiny bit of luck. All that is true, but yesterday, as he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Zuckerberg added one more [...]

The deafening silence of Hindu outfits on the hateful statements of Asiya Andrabis arises from some noble wish to keep peace. If Asiya Andrabi had been a Hindu in an Islamic country and had she tried to assert her religious right, she would have been Supurd-e-Khaak by now. She must thank her stars that she [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mourned the death of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, whom he considered as his guru. “Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji’s demise is a personal loss. I pray that his soul attains eternal peace,” Modi wrote on Twitter, soon after he landed in New York today. “My thoughts are with the countless people inspired by [...]

VARANASI: Following the police action and cane charge to disperse the gathering of Ganesh Puja organisers and seers and immersing the Murthi  of Lord Ganesha in Laxmikund (pond) instead of river Ganga on Tuesday midnight, the emergency ward of the divisional hospital, where injured seers are admitted, has been seemingly converted into a political center on [...]

REODAR/SIROHI: This Rajasthan district has restored both gender and green balance by planting trees to mark the birth of a girl child. Five-year old Sugna enters the temple complex and embraces a neem tree her own age, as her mother Wagtu Devi looks on. The mother and daughter are particularly attached to this tree at [...]

NEW DELHI: India has taken the final decision to ban all animal testing of soaps and detergents, with an environment ministry committee taking the view in a meeting held late last month. Pushed actively by minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi, the testing ban will soon be notified by the Department of Industrial Policy [...]

The letter, signed by the organisation’s secretary Debtanu Bhattacharya, also claimed that Hindus have “cooperated” with Muslims in the past during festivities. An outfit of Hindu activists wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday demanding a ban on slaughter of cows and beer in the state during Durga Puja next month. Reacting to the [...]