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Aside from the Bhagavad Gita and a sampling of the vast compendium of Hindu dharmic teachings, relatively few important texts have a comprehensive and detailed modern translation.  This is especially true for the Vedas.  For insight and understanding in English of ancient texts, such as the Vedas, one must often rely upon translations dating back [...]

Pastor Lordson Roch cnverting Hindus in Orissa [...]

NONGPOH: A cremation ground of the Hindu community at Nongpoh area manned by Nongpoh Hindu Society was dismantled by one Rodnay Syngkli as authorized by Raid Nongkhrah under Nongpoh Elaka Sirdarship in Ri-Bhoi district prompting the Society to lodge a complaint with the police. The cremation ground is located at Kjat Lum Kyntang of Raid [...]

SACRAMENTO — A masked gunman’s acts in a house of worship has left members of a Sacramento Hindu temple stunned. A place of prayer and peace was shaken by a violent encounter with a masked gunman. The Dutt family was among the worshippers inside this Fijian Community Hindu temple following nighttime services. “His finger was [...]

In this article, Well known author Galina Krasskova examines how monotheism became the domain theme in our thinking, and how the deep spiritual beliefs of ancient and great civilisations were suppressed and obliterated with horrific violence. The same nefarious forces which now target Hindus committed crimes against humanity with their carnage and intolerance. It is [...]

Does Britain’s Labour Party have a Hindu Problem? In 2016, Hindu Human Rights exposed the Hinduphobia that was rampant in the Labour Party. Now with the exposure by BBC Panorama about not just apathy but actual complicity within the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn of antisemitism, it is timely that this report is updated with [...]

 Hindus believe the incident is linked to the recent visit of the preacher Zakir Naik.    KUALA LUMPUR: Hindraf Makkal Sakthi has expressed shock over the destruction and defiling of Hindu deities in Ipoh on Sunday. “This has caused great anger and alarm amongst Hindus nationwide,” warned Hindraf Chairman P. Waythamoorthy in a statement. “We [...]

The city’s only Hindu priest is being forced to leave the country due to a row over an English test. The Home Office has told Kapil Dev Sharma and his family to return to India – leaving the Hindu community without a priest to carry out funerals and weddings.Last week there were two deaths and [...]

Pakistani journalist Shaan Khan’s piece “What’s Really Behind India’s Rape Crisis,” published this Friday (25/3/16) on The Daily Beast, looks at China and India — two countries with similarly skewed sex ratios — and asks why India in the last few years has experienced a “rape crisis,” while China has not. At the outset, one [...]

This appeal was made to the Sufi masters and scholars who gathered at New Delhi for the World Sufi Forum in March of 2016. Respected Sufi Divines, May peace and God’s grace be with you, The international counter-terrorism conference […] held at Delhi [on 17 to 20 March, 2016 happened] at a delicate time. Already scores of [...]