The objects – a tall bronze figure called the Standing Shiva and a sculpture called Kneeling Female – are thought to be about 1,000 years old.
Thailand’s National Museum has hosted a welcome home ceremony for two ancient statues that were allegedly illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were returned from [...]
A poster of Lord Hanuman in the American superhero film ‘The Flash,’ which recently hit the theatres, has left Indian netizens baffled. The poster can be spotted in several scenes in Barry Allen’s (The Flash) room. Several netizens shared pictures of the scene asking if anyone knows the reference. One user tweeted, “Pov: you’re a [...]
Anyone knows that within the context of India suddenly Hinduphobic fascism becomes freedom of expression by colonised slaves as Smita Mishra exposes [...]
Time and again we have seen Hindu gods appearing in the most unimaginable of places. In the West, there have been incidents of Ganesha appearing on toilet seats and the face of Ram on shoes. But what Indian-American Ohio girl Ankita Mishra witnessed a few weeks ago at a pub in New York probably beats [...]
November 19, 2018
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How can one define “Hinduism” one may ask. Is it a religion? A philosophy? A collection of myths? A way of life?
Lets look at the term Hinduism first: the fact is that the name “Hindu” was given to the inhabitants of the Indus Valley by foreign invaders. From there the term Hinduism [...]
September 16, 2016
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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 [...]
January 11, 2016
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Video Shows The Shocking Reality Of The Way Our Gods Are Treated After The Festivities Are Over As thousands of devotees from across India are immersing the Ganpati Murthis into the rivers. This shocking video shows what happens after the festivities are over. Our ‘Gods’ are disrespected and chucked into dirty rivers. [...]
September 29, 2015
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A Delhi court has directed recording of statement of a man who filed a complaint against Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni accusing him of insulting Hindu religion by posing as a deity and holding a shoe in his hand on the cover page of a magazine. Metropolitan Magistrate Mayuri Singh, who had earlier declined the [...]
May 25, 2014
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”Why do you worship an idol?” is a question frequently encountered by some Hindu’s. Another common question is, “Why do you worship a rock?” This is an excellent opportunity for a Hindu, or follower of Sanatana Dharma, to educate their momentary student of spirituality or religion. [...]
Perhaps one of the most demeaning words, offensively carrying the heavy abrahamic bias, is the term DEMIGOD, that stabs directly at the core of the Divinity concept in Hinduism, creating a sense of inferiority and incompleteness in the Vedic vision as compared to the perceived greatness and supremacy of the “monotheistic” God. We would better [...]
January 6, 2014
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Understanding hinduism