A 2004 update : Again Hind00 tomfoolery reincarnates in reaction to an Xpost shared by Dr. Lavanya Vemsani @ProfVemsani from Nupur J Sharma @UnSubtleDes who is defining a working definition of “Hinduphobia” was met with “but we should use ‘Hindumisia’ or HinduHate instead or Hinduphobia is a copy of Islamophobia ” ect. In his 2001 [...]
Hinduphobia includes physical, emotional, psychological, economic and social abuse. It includes victim shaming, silencing and the overt denial of centuries of atrocities against Hindus that continue today. It includes smashing idols, destroying temples, forced conversion, murder, persecution, bride theft and ethnic cleansing. [...]
Pakistani journalist Shaan Khan’s piece “What’s Really Behind India’s Rape Crisis,” published this Friday (25/3/16) on The Daily Beast, looks at China and India — two countries with similarly skewed sex ratios — and asks why India in the last few years has experienced a “rape crisis,” while China has not. At the outset, one [...]
Western colonialism did not die after the end of World War II when the West gave up its colonies. It merely changed to a more subtle form, which may prove more harmful to non-Western cultures in the long run.The expansion of Western culture has continued at an accelerated rate along with the denigration and decline [...]
February 19, 2016
Vamadev Shastri
Analysis/Insights, Archives, History, India
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shares his views on the recent JNU anti – national issue. [...]
February 17, 2016
HHR
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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 [...]
November 13, 2015
HHR
Archives, World Focus
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 [...]
November 10, 2015
HHR
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‘Even if the media is partisan, the BJP, governing at the Centre, has the most to lose if India descends into widespread communal violence.’‘Fanning the flames either by vested political interests or by partisan reports only plays into the hands of those seek a conflagration,’ argues Sankrant Sanu.A recent article in the Washington Post leads [...]
October 9, 2015
HHR
Archives, India
PI(M) in Kerala has come in for flak from some religious and cultural outfits over alleged depiction of saint-reformer Sree Narayana Guru as being crucified during a recent party-supported cultural procession in the politically sensitive Kannur district. The outfits have come out against the CPI(M), which leads the LDF opposition in the state, after pictures [...]
September 13, 2015
HHR
India
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
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