hindu conversion

The French media now reporting on persecution of Hindus in Pakistan [...]

It was a high-voltage drama in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday when police tried to take into custody a couple who had converted to Hinduism.  However, activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal reached the police station and ensured that the couple were set free.  The couple – Rajan Puri [...]

“All men dream,” said T. E. Lawrence, “but not equally.” Artistic, introspective and questioning, even as a child it was clear to those around me that I was, in Lawrence’s terminology, a “dreamer of the day.” I disliked what I regarded as the shallow materialism and trivial ways people interacted in the West. But above [...]

I became a Hindu by increments. It didn’t happen over night of course. There was no one grand happening that changed my heart and mind. I was fortunate enough to have been raised by a psychology professor who practiced Yoga, meditation, pranayama and chanting; and studied Eastern philosophy and religion. So I grew up around [...]

I am an American like many other Americans, born into a family of mixed European and Native American ancestry. My interest in my own origins started early. I knew that my European ancestors were pagans who were converted to Abrahamic faiths, and that my Native ancestors were pagans mostly obliterated by those Europeans. I knew [...]