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The Nazification of the Holy Aum, the Hindu Symbol of universal harmony and an assault on the spirit of Diwali. It is with sadness that we write regarding an act of great harm and religious violence, the depiction of the Hindu and Sikh sacred image, the Aum/Aumkar syllable, in a manner associating it with the [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the British parliament in London, United Kingdom [...]

Hindus have been putting up with a lot more fashionable hatred than any other community in the world today. Can you picture a protest against a political figure in today’s tolerant and liberal world which involves a sacred symbol of his religion being used on the backdrop of a Nazi flag? Try picturing it. A [...]

Pakistani Hindus, who have arrived in the Indian capital in recent months, tell BBC Hindi’s Zubair Ahmed that they fled their homes to escape discrimination and religious persecution. Mala Das can just about write her name. At 16, this has been her greatest achievement. “When I came here I was completely unlettered. Today I can [...]

LONDON: Kashmiri Hindus in the UK have held an event in the British Parliament to mark the 68th anniversary of the signing of the ‘Instrument of Accession’ of Jammu and Kashmir to India by Maharaja Hari Singh. Jointly organised by the Kashmiri Pandits Cultural Society and Voice of Dogras, the event earlier this week was [...]

Why is “Net Neutrality” important? In order to discuss this subject, one needs to understand just exactly what it is, as both sides in the debate are guilty of obfuscating what it means in order to promote their positions, both relying upon the same language of “Liberty” and “Freedom” to describe their respective views. For [...]

The attack on Sri Vishweshateertha Swami of the Udupi Pejawar Mutt took place not far from the Sri Krishna Mutt in Belagavi leading to speculations that it was pre-planned. Unidentified people pelted stones at the convoy of vehicles carrying one of the most powerful gurus of Karnataka, Sri Vishweshateertha Swami of the Udupi Pejawar Mutt, [...]

DEHRADUN: In M Night Shyamalan’s ‘The Sixth Sense’, the character played by Haley Joel Osment tells Bruce Willis, a child psychologist in the Hollywood blockbuster, that he sees dead people. It was a line that went on to define the film. Hollywood superstar Sylvester Stallone, the man many in the world know as ‘Rocky Balboa’, [...]

Accused of being a witch, an Air Force contractor working at a dental clinic at Fort Meade, Maryland, has been fired. Seriously. Deborah Schoenfeld, a dental technician at the clinic, and a Hindu, was fired on September 2, immediately after filing a formal complaint about the religious harassment she was being forced to endure, which [...]

Germany on Monday returned to India a 10th century Durga Murthi which had gone missing from a temple in Kashmir over two decades back and was later found in that country. The Murthi was handed over by visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after their talks in New Delhi, three years [...]