World Focus

KOLKATA: Did you know that at least 20 Hindu deities are regularly worshipped in Japan? In fact, there are hundreds of shrines to Goddess Saraswati alone in that country, along with innumerable representations of Lakshmi, Indra, Brahma, Ganesha, Garuda and others. Even deities forgotten in India are worshipped in Japan. A unique exhibition at Indian [...]

AHMEDABAD: Even as Pakistani-origin singer Adnan Sami was granted Indian citizenship, many disillusioned families are going back to the neighbouring country after spending many years in Gujarat. In the past one year, at least 100 families — most of them Sindhis and Kutchi Gujaratis — have returned to Pakistan after spending many years in Gujarat [...]

How do your favorite Star Wars characters find inner peace? Yoga of course. Vader Yoga. Yoda Yoga. Boba Yoga. We all know Yoga is 1,000’s of years old. But we didn’t know that the Hindu ancient secrets were known in a galaxy far far away…   1. The Vader Series 2. The Leia Yoga Series   [...]

 The furore created by US presidential candidate, the populist and conservative Republican Donald Trump, who stated that Muslim immigration to America should be stopped, needs to be seen in a wider context. It has come hot on the heels of a refugee crisis as millions try and flee war torn Syria, caught between an embattled [...]

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a proposal worth Rs 2,000 crore for rehabilitating Kashmiri migrants (Hindu Refugees) 3000 additional government jobs and 6,000 transit accommodations will be provided to Kashmiri migrants (Hindu Refugees) in the valley, according to the decision of the Union Cabinet which also enhanced monetary assistance for people displaced from [...]

A Hindu group has formally requested a spot for a privately funded statue of Lord Hanuman on the Arkansas Capitol Grounds. It says it has been informed that the Capitol Grounds Commission could consider this if called to do so by Secretary of State Mark Martin or a majority of the commission. What do you [...]

Waterloo Regional Police are investigating after two windows were smashed at the Ram Dham Hindu temple in Kitchener’s Bridgeport neighbourhood.  Investigators say someone heaved five stones through the two window panes at about 11:15 p.m. on Sunday night. Mohan Kendall, vice president of Ram Dham Hindu temple, shows one of the rocks thrown through the temple’s rear [...]

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 [...]