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The British public no longer fit into just three social classes, with society now split into seven based on economic, social and cultural measures, a major new study has discovered. Unlike the three traditional class divisions the new classes range from the privileged ‘elite’ to the deprived ‘precariat’  More than 160,000 people took part in [...]

‘We are told (inaccurately) that the Maoists principally dominate tribal areas because these populations are among the poorest of the poor. What is ignored here is the sheer and demonstrative brutality of the Maoists — cold-blooded killings; the cutting off of limbs for the smallest of infractions; harsh and humiliating punishments for “co-operating” with the [...]

The impending 2014 American withdrawal from its Afghan quagmire is beginning to impact on India in many ways, most manifest of which was the latest episode of Pakistani jihadi violence at the Balnoi sector in the Poonch region along the Line of Control (LOC). Gruesome as it is, the sneak killings of our soldiers Sudhakar [...]

In February 2002 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) along with other international broadcast networks reported on the outbreak of communal violence in Godhra, in the Indian state of Gujarat. From the BBC report one would have got the impression that Hindus were not even victims of the violence. Instead Hindus were blamed for the violence [...]

“Love is present not only in human beings but also in all creatures, birds and beasts.  Nor is that all. It is in fact all-pervasive.  Love pervades everything in creation.  Man’s humanness is vitiated when he fails to recognize this love” Sathya Sai Baba   [...]

          Washington, Nov 7 — While all five Indian-American candidates hoping to enter the US Congress lost out, Tulsi Gabbard today created history by becoming the first Hindu-American to enter the US House of Representatives. An Iraq war veteran, 31-year-old Gabbard defeated K. Crowley of the Republican Party with a handsome [...]

Scarcely can there ever have been such hype surrounding the news that a British High Commissioner in Delhi was to visit one of India’s States. Yet the visit of His Excellency James Bevan to Gujarat and the announcement that he will meet with the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi has been greeted with both rejoicing and [...]

From heroin and opium to barbiturates, cough syrup and painkillers, three out of four young people in Punjab are drug addicts. Over the last few years, the number of private detox centres has exploded. In some districts, pharmacies outnumber grocery stores. Why are drugs such a problem in this state, one of the richest in [...]

Calls for Fiji to become an officially Christian state have been rejected by one of the country's main Hindu groups. [...]

HINDRAF is the most successful Hindu/Indian resistance movement outside of India, which offers certain basic lessons in running effective Hindu movements. On 24th Nov 2007 HINDRAF organised the most successful demonstration in Kuala lumpur which had hit all major news channels around the world. About 30-40 thousand people participated. However, according to certain reports, if [...]