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Tipu Sultan , On Naraka Chaturdashi, towards the end of 18th Century, Massacred around 1000 (some say more ) Iyengar Brahmins. date the Hindus of Melukote Don’t Celebrate Diwali to Highlight Tipus atrocities Ganga Jamuni Historians never will tell you that - Rapper Pandit [...]

Diwali will be a New York City public school holiday starting next year in 2023. Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks announced Thursday the school calendar was moved around to make room for the important holiday for many religions. [...]

 Hindutva is a compassionate, empowering, unifying & humanistic worldview. It existentially challenges supremacist religions who thrive on mind control, dictats & the outsourcing of swa-dharma / logic / compassion to an all-conquering god, rather than ones own head & heart >> [...]

Diwali on the Square Festival In London Music and dance brightened up central London on Sunday as Diwali on the Square was staged. The annual event featured 200 colourfully dressed dancers, with performances by the Hindus. It is a free family event organised by the mayor of London, with visitors able to try their hand [...]

In the 2001 film, The Believer, a former Jewish student in a New York yeshiva becomes a Nazi skinhead who wants to exterminate his own community. The movie is based loosely on the life of Dan Burros. Born to Jewish parents, he attended a Hebrew school and had his Bar Mitzvah. Later he joined Lincoln [...]

Mohammad Manik, risking his own life jumped into a sudden flash flood that hit the Mal river in Bengal to save people who were unaware of the flood rushing towards them during the Durga Dieties immersion. He saved at least nine people, among them three children and four women. [...]

“Hinduphobia has absolutely no place in our society anywhere and we must all fight this together,” – Sir Keir Starmer.   UK Opposition Labour Leader Keir Starmer vows to combat ‘Hinduphobia’ Addressing one of Europe’s largest Navratri celebrations here on Wednesday evening, Labour Leader Keir Starmer told a gathering of hundreds of British Indians that [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) -- An East Palo Alto man with a criminal record in Santa Clara and Alameda counties is charged with more than a dozen hate crimes targeting older Hindu women of Indian descent. In some cases, it's believed he broke women's arms and beat their husbands all for their gold jewelry. According to [...]

It seems long before Dandiya- Stick Garba and its later offshoots like Michael Jackson Moon Walk Garba or Disco Garba or Bollywood Garba the traditional dance goes back to Talwar-Sword Garba. This makes more sense as the Goddess herself is armed with swords and among the ancient 'Pagans' it's the Hindus who produced some of [...]

The Coolie Emerges One factor that united media outlets across the political spectrum since the attacks on Hindus in Leicester and then Smethwick was how they blamed the street jihad violence as a natural outcome of Hindutva, Hindu nationalism and Hindu fascism in the UK. Of course, none of these media giants could provide any [...]