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The Hindu tradition emphasises Dharma and Rta; to live in harmony with cosmic order by being aware of one’s karma. It is ideas like this which the western mind cannot grasp, denouncing it as nebulous and illusory. One of the common criticisms is that Indian spiritual traditions denounce this world as Maya or illusion. But [...]

Opposition against Hindus family cremating dead in Arjunpur, West Bengal and Hindus not allowed to use 300-year-old crematorium, locals threatens and lob bombs at grieving family. After 300 years, we are told cremations will not be allowed, local authorities propose a cremation ground 15km away. Police also scared to give back land to Hindus. Biren [...]

Narendra Modi’s accession to power has not entirely ended the international campaign against him, witness the petition (with most signatures found to be fraudulent) to Barack Obama to cancel Modi’s planned visit to Washington. It was floated by the Coalition Against Genocide, a platform of several dozen Muslim organizations and some Communist coattails, many of [...]

New Delhi: Kashmiri Pandits who wish to go back to the Valley and settle there will be facilitated with all necessary resources by the government, Union Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday. “There has been clarity in this government regarding many problems and we have even allocated money. Our Kashmiri Pandit brothers who want to [...]

*** Click here to sign petition *** Gaurav Sawant (right), a deputy editor for Headlines Today (part of the India Today group) is being threatened with dismissal.The reason for this, is that he has dared to question (on Twitter)  the way that the mainstream media fails to highlight or report accurately incidents of violence or religious intolerance in [...]

JAIPUR: It was unbelievable for the 150 students of Government Praveshika Sanskrit Vidhyalaya at Sanganer to see a white man whom they identified differently as ‘Amrica Ka Pradhan Mantri’, ‘Gori Aadmi’ and Angrez Sir serving chapattis and subji (mid-day meal) on Wednesday afternoon. Among them, only very few knew that the man in question is [...]

Al Qaeda is at the gates, and there are enough jihadis within already. Intelligence agencies say the terror network is making inroads into India, sowing the seeds of a “final war” across the country. Information gathered on the Al Qaeda’s India plans point to a mobilisation of its resources for jihad. The ideological goal of [...]

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A national newspaper carried an article on July 1st that bemoaned (rightly so) the disparity in education between the haves and the have-nots, between the 20 per cent who study in English medium private schools and the 80 per cent who study in vernacular government schools. The author proposed an outlandish solution to bridge the [...]

Recently, the IB had come out with a report questioning the motives and agenda of the foreign funded NGOs operating in India.  It is alleged that they have an anti-development agenda, and has caused serious loss in terms of economic growth in India.  Analysts, including journalists, have used various stratagems to divert the attention from [...]