India

I was shocked and aghast to read the comments of author Wendy Doniger calling Indian Judiciary as the main villain in this case. Equally shocking was the article of Ram Chandra Guha carried by your esteemed newspaper stating that courts have failed to protect artistic rights. Equally stunning was the letter of Arundhati Roy calling [...]

If a poem is a projection of the poet’s mind and heart, this one being taught at Calicut University has made many people uncomfortable. Why? Because the poet here is an ideologue of terror group Al Qaeda! Ibrahim al-Rubaish’s ‘Ode to the Sea’ captures his feelings during his incarceration in the Guantanamo Bay prison on [...]

New Delhi:  All copies of American scholar Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus: An Alternative History”, published by Penguin, will be recalled and destroyed as part of a court-backed settlement with a group that called the book “insulting to Hindus.” Penguin India reportedly agreed to “pulp” all remaining copies of the book in a pact signed in [...]

Bollywood actor Salman Khan went to Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai, this Sunday(Feb 9) to offer his prayers along with co-actor Daisy Shah. Apparently, the actor wanted to thank God after his latest film entered the Rs.100-crore club. The much-awaited film, which released on January 24, did not draw an overwhelming response from the audience and [...]

ITANAGAR, Arunachal Pradesh — Though the event they advertised had passed a month earlier, the neon-colored posters remained, clinging to the state capital’s walls, lampposts and storefronts. On them were invitations to Indigenous Faith Day celebrations on Dec. 1, with slogans like “Culture without faith is body without soul,” and, more pointedly, “Imitation of alien [...]

“INCULTURATION” is an (Christian) evangelist policy to keep the native culture but replace the native religion with Christianity.”.. Rajiv Malhotra ·   Read the Book : Catholic Ashrams  Sannyasins or Swindlers by Sita Ram Goel The book is about missionaries that established “Ashrams” in India and incorporated Hindu customs in their “Ashrams”. Read the book [...]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking ban on use of images of Hindu deities on packets of tobacco and other products as well as wedding cards and calenders, saying that respect to God is an issue of “personal sentiments”. The petitioner has said use of pictorial representations [...]

What is scandalous is the corruption after the takeover of temples as politicians and officials loot the temple’s wealth and land, and divert donations of devotees to non-religious purposes The Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment on January 6, 2013, allowing my Special Leave Petition that sought the quashing of the Tamil Nadu Government’s G.O. [...]

Let me begin by admitting that I would not be writing about the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits today if I had not been shamed into doing so. I would have written about the flip-flop currently going on in the Congress over whether Rahul Gandhi should be declared their future prime minister or not. The [...]

  Amid chanting of religious hymns, late BJP leader Dilip Singh Judeo’s son washed feet of tribal Christians on Sunday to mark their return to Hinduism at a Hindu religious meet organized by Dharam Jagaran, an organization backed by the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS), at Pathalgaon in tribal Jashpur district in Chhattisgarh. Nearly 1,200 [...]