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Yoga Day is Modi government’s way of reclaiming India’s traditional culture

Yoga Day is Modi government’s way of reclaiming India’s traditional culture

It shows that the older spiritual idea of India is still strong and is undergoing a resurgence. Today two different ideas of India are struggling with each other in a cultural war that is likely to continue for some time. The first can be called the “Nehruvian idea” of a modern post-independence India as a [...]

June 20, 2016 Vamadev Shastri Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

India to soon ban testing of soaps, detergents on animals

India to soon ban testing of soaps, detergents on animals

NEW DELHI: India has taken the final decision to ban all animal testing of soaps and detergents, with an environment ministry committee taking the view in a meeting held late last month. Pushed actively by minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi, the testing ban will soon be notified by the Department of Industrial Policy [...]

September 20, 2015 HHR Archives, India 0

Modi government planning to build hi-tech Ram museum in Ayodhya to promote Ramayana

Modi government planning to build hi-tech Ram museum in Ayodhya to promote Ramayana

NEW DELHI: No temple, but here’s a museum. The Narendra Modi government is planning to build a state of-the-art Ram museum in the politically charged town of Ayodhya. Tourism minister Mahesh Sharma told ET that the museum will be part of the proposed ‘Ramayana circuit’. The locus of past and possible political battles — the [...]

June 9, 2015 HHR Archives, Spirituality/Culture 0
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