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Some Hindus had sent us a tweet by author Sahana Singh @singhsahana that highlighted a Hindu parenting debate video between Vijaya Viswanathan and Shoba Swamy @ShobhaSwamy6. They wanted to know what we thought about these issues discussed, especially as most of us are born and brought up in the West and never fell into the [...]

A bunch of Indian students from Puducherry University in India the abode of a billion Hindus trying to celebrate their inferiority complex to feel brave did a live show mocking Hindu Gods Ram, Sita and Hanuman. One wimpy fool has even a native American headdress on insulting Native Americans probably hoping Gora Sahib will give [...]

For us who are Western-born, we often have a good laugh at the embarrassing Gungadins and coolies coming off the Indian colonial education conveyor belt even though the British left over 70 years ago. Someone asked Sadhguru why the PM named the landing spot of the moon landing Shiv Shakti when it should be of [...]

The Indian colonial state continues to provide us with first-class comedy with its abundance of high-level clowns coming out of its subservient colonial education system. [...]

Hindu students gave flyers at New College, Oxford University, urging action against the bigoted and derogatory comments of resident Gungadin Abhijit Sarkar. They ask, does Sarkar uphold the values of this prestigious college? [...]

India is a target market for many commercial organisations and of course the media is no exception. From being one of Britain’s most well established newspapers, the Daily Mail has pioneered online journalism. Indeed it has a special section for India, and it is here that we encounter the latest offering by that country’s journalist [...]

A national newspaper carried an article on July 1st that bemoaned (rightly so) the disparity in education between the haves and the have-nots, between the 20 per cent who study in English medium private schools and the 80 per cent who study in vernacular government schools. The author proposed an outlandish solution to bridge the [...]

India is like Europe. The European Union has 24 official languages. All 24 are used for outbound communication. All laws are released in 24 languages. Each state has engineering, medicine, business in their own language. India’s languages serve a larger number of people than many European states. There is no reason why we cannot adopt [...]

Whenever the Indian elections are underway the western media is even more panicked than usual about the impending doom faced by the world’s largest democracy as it falls into the abyss of Hindu fascism, fundamentalism, nationalism, and other assorted ‘reactionary’ forces. The parrot-fashion use of such worn-out phrases and the lazy reliance on the chattering [...]

Both Hindu Forum and Hindu Council claim to be representative by virtue of the fact that they have so many Hindu temples supporting them. The number of 400 is usually touted. But how can the same temples belong to both groups? And since when was this even representative of Hindus as a whole? Does this [...]