Various Hindu representatives from different Hindu temples and sects came together at the Durga Mandir in East London to start a series of Hindu prayers for the Hindu victims of the terrorist attack at Reasi in Jammu and Kashmir. More temples are going to do the same in the coming days. We request all Hindus [...]
Hindu Twitterati Army are finger exercising on their keyboards nonstop after the Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, probably both shorter than the real Stalin showed his extreme bravery at a talk called Eradicating Sanatan Dharma where he said , “Few things cannot be opposed; they should only be abolished. We [...]
Rajiv Malhotra in this recent news clip once again claims he coined the term Hinduphobia when it’s well known it was already in use in the UK media even far back as the 1860s. Did he time travel in a DeLorean like in the movie Back To The Future and promoted the term to the [...]
The Festival of the Chariots is sometimes referred to as Ratha Yatra, literally meaning Chariot Festival. Ratha Yatra originated 5,000 years ago in India, on the East Coast state of Orrisa, in a city called Jagannatha Puri.Follow me on this exciting adventure to Venice Beach, California where I meet other devotees, run into several hateful [...]
Hindus ethnically cleansed in West Bengal by Bangladeshi Jihadists elements [...]
Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajote yesterday said it was fearing attacks on Hindus across the country during and after the upcoming Union Parishad (UP) elections, and urged the government to ensure their safety. It also warned of stern actions if the government failed to ensure security. Palash Kanti Dey, spokesperson for Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajote, told [...]
March 12, 2016
HHR
Archives, Bangladesh
Now that everybody had had his say on the “Rajiv Malhotra plagiarism affair”, we can better discern the larger context that explains the different forces at work here. Plagiarism The trigger was the discovery that seven passages in Malhotra’s work, mainly in his book Indra’s Net, had been lifted verbatim from unacknowledged work by others, [...]
July 23, 2015
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights, Archives
In March 2005, the United States denied a visa to Gujarat’s chief minister, Narendra Modi, now the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate in next year’s Indian elections. The visa was denied because of Mr. Modi’s alleged role in the 2002 riots in Gujarat that left more than 1,000 dead, most of them Muslims. But it [...]
A possibly good side to the Wendy Doniger affair At first sight, the withdrawal of Prof. Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus, an Alternative History by her publisher Penguin is an all-round disaster for the Hindus. The nit-picking by some Hindu activists that the book wasn’t really banned by a Court but only withdrawn by the [...]
March 5, 2014
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights
The barrage of vicious propaganda unleashed by a section of the visual and print media in Kerala against the Amritanandamayi Math is obviously motivated to bring down the high respect and reputation with which millions of people across the world hold that spiritually-oriented service organisation. There is a method in this madness. Any flimsy excuse [...]
February 27, 2014
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India, News updates