For several consecutive years, a Hindu American contestant of Indian origin has won the National Spelling Bee in the United States. Preparing for the National Spelling Bee is undoubtedly no small task with contestants studying for many hours a day over several years in order to have a realistic chance at winning. It is no [...]
March 4, 2016
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In yet another case of murder of a Hindu leader, Vishva Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) Agra city unit vice-president Arun Kumar Mahaur, a Dalit, was on Thursday shot dead in broad daylight on the way back home after performing his daily prayers at a local temple. He was accosted by five assailants in a busy marketplace [...]
February 29, 2016
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Kuala Lumpur: Nearly 7,000 in Malaysia have been wrongly documented as Muslims on their national identity cards, according to a group of NGOs in the Muslim-majority nation. The problem was widespread throughout Peninsular Malaysia and involved mostly practising Hindus from the lower income group who are documented as Muslims, Malaysia Hindu Sangam president Mohan Shan [...]
February 26, 2016
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The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind the beheading of a senior Hindu priest and wounding two worshippers in northern Bangladesh.In a statement IS said that “caliphate soldiers” carried out the assaults using “light weapons”. The IS-linked Amaq “news agency” also reported the claim. Jogeswar Roy, 45, was attacked by two [...]
February 22, 2016
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KANNUR: A 27-year-old RSS worker was hacked to death in front of his aged parents in Kannur district in poll-bound Kerala, triggering a blame game between BJP and CPM on Tuesday. While BJP slammed CPM for Monday night’s murder of the RSS worker, Sujit, the Marxist party has denied it, saying it was the fallout [...]
February 17, 2016
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Namaste readers! My name is Stephanie Ellison. I am a Sanātani (Hindu) and have been for many years at varying levels. I first became exposed to it when I was studying to be a Natural Hygienist in Austin, Texas in 1994-95. Natural Hygiene has many of the elements of taking care of your health in [...]
To my chagrin and dismay, self-appointed defenders of oppressed cultures who cast contemporary western yoga as the second coming of the East India Company have attached themselves to the fabric of yoga discourse with the stubborn persistence of a burr on a sock. Consequently, perfectly serviceable yoga programs are now at risk of being run [...]
December 26, 2015
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Archives, The Yoga Snatchers
LAHORE: Up to 124 Hindu pilgrims crossed over to Attari from Wagah on Wednesday after a seven-day visit to their religious places here. Led by Shiv Partab Bajaj, one delegation had a overnight stay at Gurdawara Dera Sahib in Lahore and departed for Katas village in Chakwal for their rituals at Katasraj, a complex of [...]
December 20, 2015
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Being Hindu is the journey of a common Hindu, an attempt to understand why for so many Hindus their faith is one of the most powerful arguments for plurality, for unity in diversity and even more than the omnipresent power of God, the sublime courage and conviction of man. An extract. For a moment, think [...]
December 6, 2015
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THE Sri Durga Temple built on the western suburb of Melbourne will rise as Australia’s biggest Durga temple. Located in Rockbank, a rocky district of Melton City, the new building will provide a house of Hindu worship to an ever-growing population of Indians and other Hindu nationalities in Australia’s second largest city. According to the Australian Bureau [...]
December 4, 2015
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