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When the Portuguese came, St. Xavier wrote to the king of Portugal, his patron, "If there were no brahmins, all pagans would be converted to our faith." He hated them with hatred that evangelists alone are capable of. He called them a "most perverse people." Brahmins became a persecuted people. Next the British came. They [...]

In the AQA approved Religious Studies text for GCSE (written by Lesley Parry, Jan Hayes, Sheila Butler, published by Hodder Education), we find this rather disturbing view of Hinduism: [...]

Three priests were found brutally murdered in the courtyard of Sri Arakeshwara Temple at Guttalu on theon the outskirts of Mandya city on Friday morning.  The bodies of the priests, identified as Ganesh,Prakash and Anand, were found in a pool of blood with their heads crushed with boulders. The bodies were spotted by the villagers. [...]

With the growing calls for equality and tackling racism spearheaded by the Black Lives Matter Movement, the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi soon became the target. His statue stands in Parliament Square in London, near that to Winston Churchill. The latter has also become the target of protests. Churchill’s racist views are well-known, especially towards people [...]

The construction of Ram Janmabhoomi temple at Shri Ram’s birthplace of Ayodhya has led to universal condemnation from press within India and abroad. Normally media outlets which are right-wing and left-wing, conservative and liberal, secular and religious, white supremacists and anti-racist, Christian and Islamic, free market and socialist, would be polar opposites and antagonistic. But [...]

This may be the twenty-first century but demagogues like Gopal are essential if Cambridge University needs to continue with its revamped colonial mission to the uncivilised Hindu savage. Although she looks like the victim group, in mind she is the epitome of colonial racism. [...]

#Hindus #HinduActivism #Mosque #Kshatriya   While majority of Hindus think they need to all unite before standing up for themselves, along with others who think they need to be intellectual ‘kshatriyas’. But all end up making no impact at all. The truth is they probably need to learn from Karishma Bhosale standing up alone for [...]

The recent protests over American police brutality against blacks have reached around the world. This has also resulted in the toppling of statues with historical figures associated with slavery and racism, notably Confederate monuments in America. [...]

The rebel yell was a battle cry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War, when charging to intimidate the enemy and boost their own morale. The South had seceded in order to protect its ‘peculiar institution’ of slavery which was increasingly under siege by powerful abolitionist forces. [...]

A Bharat Mata Statue in the kanya kumari region at the southern tips of Tamil Nadu was covered up immediately with a white cloth as no burka was available by the Indian pot belly police after complaints from far Right Wing misogynist Christians who found her offensive and a eyesore to their religious beliefs, in [...]