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Just two days ago the BBC put on its website the ominously entitled “What is India’s caste system?”. A rhetorical question indeed because anyone familiar with the BBC’s constant anti-Hindu bias would already know exactly where that sort of vitriol was headed; blame directly apportioned to Hinduism, Hindu beliefs, Hindu civilisation and especially Hindu texts. [...]

Marking a new chapter in centuries-old ties between India and Japan. Japanese PM Shinzo Abe along PM Narendra Modi visited Varanasi. Varanasi hosted an audio-visual treat non pareil for PM Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on the banks of the holy Ganga on Saturday, marking a historic occasion in this oldest city [...]

It is, of course, not out of any solidarity with India’s poor and suffering millions. I wept watching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the British parliament. I found his desi accent difficult to follow, but cried nonetheless. In fact, I wept because of it, raising as it did so many personal issues for me. [...]

PM Modi visits the house where Dr. Ambedkar stayed in London. PM Modi inaugurates the Ambedkar memorial. [...]

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,” [...]

LONDON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gifted his British counterpart David Cameron a specially handcrafted pair of bookends with verses from Bhagavad Gita engraved on it and a book compiled of letters sent by Indian soldiers during the World War I when they served in France. “Presented PM @David_Cameron a specially handcrafted pair of [...]

The Nazification of the Holy Aum, the Hindu Symbol of universal harmony and an assault on the spirit of Diwali. It is with sadness that we write regarding an act of great harm and religious violence, the depiction of the Hindu and Sikh sacred image, the Aum/Aumkar syllable, in a manner associating it with the [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the British parliament in London, United Kingdom [...]

Hindus have been putting up with a lot more fashionable hatred than any other community in the world today. Can you picture a protest against a political figure in today’s tolerant and liberal world which involves a sacred symbol of his religion being used on the backdrop of a Nazi flag? Try picturing it. A [...]

  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 [...]