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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled here a statue of Basaveshwara, the 12th century Indian philosopher and social reformer, praising him for giving the world ideals of democracy much before the Magna Carta. “Basaveshwara fought against the caste system and evil forces in society. I hope people will try to understand what he advocated,” [...]

  The Bihar election results are out. Now there will very likely be a lot of breast-beating or apologetics on the part of the supporters of the BJP and Modi, and gleeful crowing by their opponents.   As a consistently staunch Hindutva supporter but N.O.T.A voter, I would like to make two points which may [...]

Sanskrit is often referred to as the language of the Devas. But is this really true? Certainly the antiquity of Sanskrit is not in question, as there is little doubt that the vibrational and sound model for Sanskrit is considerably old, as Sanskrit as a language is traced back to at least the Brahmi script[i], [...]

Under the pretext of disseminating true knowledge about the past to young, impressionable school children, a perverse assault has been launched upon the religious sensitivities of the Hindu community. Marxist historians allege that ancient Hindus ate beef, that this is recorded in their sacred scriptures, and that this should be taught to school children. The [...]

DEHRADUN: In M Night Shyamalan’s ‘The Sixth Sense’, the character played by Haley Joel Osment tells Bruce Willis, a child psychologist in the Hollywood blockbuster, that he sees dead people. It was a line that went on to define the film. Hollywood superstar Sylvester Stallone, the man many in the world know as ‘Rocky Balboa’, [...]

The Refugee Story-  “She is a 4 Year old girl, named Laxmi from Sindh province in Pakistan who is suffering from Ventricular Septal Defect which is by birth i.e.congenital. She is also living in the refugee camp. According to her mother she was denied treatment for being a Hindu there in Pakistan. Doctors of G.B. [...]

LAST week I wrote about a group that was determined to prove that Hindus had always killed cows since the Vedas had allowed it. To support their assertions, practically every Sanskrit shloka has been mistranslated in order to fit into the theory. I spent five years looking at translations when I wrote my dictionaries on [...]

“According to a study by U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom (USCIRF), public school textbooks in #Pakistan often had a strong Islamic orientation and public schools and madrassas negatively portray the country’s religious minorities and reinforce biases which fuel acts of discrimination, and possibly violence, against these communities.” This video of a refugee girl Phoolwanti (8), [...]

For years we have pretended that mad cow disease does not exist in India. People who have a brain deterioration, loss of memory and motor functions are diagnosed as senile or victims of Alzheimer’s disease. SOMEONE we know very well in Dehradun, a rich Jain businessman, has been diagnosed with mad cow disease. He has [...]

“Succumbing to a colonial orientalist discourse rooted in Christianity, Ambedkar pleads for the eradication of all characteristics that distinguish the Hindu traditions from this religion. … Consequently, no matter what they may write about Hindu unity and such like, Ambedkar and his followers are advocating one simple message: Indian culture deserves destruction. … Our cultures and [...]