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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 [...]

Over the last few weeks, Hindus in Aotearoa have been shocked to find out about a publication by Massey University promoting Hinduphobia and Hindumisia. The paper titled ‘Cultural Hindutva and Islamophobia’ was authored by Prof. Mohan J. Dutta, Dean’s Chair Professor in Communication, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University. The paper was a [...]

This vicious unprovoked war against Hinduism has been going on for a long time, causing huge damage not only to Hindus and the Indian subcontinent but to the entire human kind, [...]

There is a well-known observation among Hindu Activists Outside the Sangh that most of the usual performative academic experts on Hindutva haven’t probably heard about. Sita Ram Goel, the tallest of figures in that small but important category of Hindu Activists Outside the Sangh, observed, as early as the 1950s, that the typical reaction of [...]

  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 [...]

A controversy has broken out over a reported conference at the University of Toronto in Canada. The topic of the conference is reported to be 'Dismantling Global Hindutva'. Members of the Indian diaspora in Canada reportedly held protests against the conference, asking the University to withdraw its endorsement of the event. They reportedly marched to [...]

A prominent American State Senator has strongly condemned hosting of the ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ conference and described it as an anti-Hindu gathering as several universities asked the organisers to remove their logos from the site of the event which has generated outrage among Hindu Americans. “This conference represents a disgusting attack on Hindus across the [...]

A 12-year-old Hindu soccer player of Indian origin Shubh Patel was sent off the field for wearing a religious necklace made of basil wood beads (kanthi mala). The Toowong club member told Channel Seven News that it is against Hinduism to remove the beads necklace. [...]

. In fact can we even use terms such as left and right-wing, because, with regard to Hindus, the Labour Party takes on a disturbing resemblance of the ultranationalist Nazi-style outfits which demonised people of colour? These attacks on minorities were not just speeches and propaganda. They took physical form, as does the Hinduphobia pushed [...]

The HHR protest joined by other Hindu Orgs and Hindus. A video recording of the anti-Blasphemy Law demonstration at the Pakistan High Commission, protesting against the sentencing of an 8-year-old Hindu boy charged with Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code. By Charlie Sen bksheeshfilms [...]