Narendra Modi

The minority has been continually oppressed, marginalised, converted or simply eliminated. Which religious group has the least amount of human rights in South Asia? The probable answer, perhaps surprisingly, is a group that few think about or recognise as existing – Pakistani Hindus. The plight of Pakistani Hindus is among the direst of any community [...]

“Significantly, PM Narendra Modi had made beef exports an election issue. In a poll rally in Nawada, Bihar, in April 2014, he had referred to ‘pink revolution’. More recently, incidents like the Dadri lynching and the Kerala House raid had led to a debate on ‘intolerance’ with several BJP members speaking against consumption of beef.” [...]

 The furore created by US presidential candidate, the populist and conservative Republican Donald Trump, who stated that Muslim immigration to America should be stopped, needs to be seen in a wider context. It has come hot on the heels of a refugee crisis as millions try and flee war torn Syria, caught between an embattled [...]

“Never has such a meticulously choreographed circus by Western (mainly US) academicians, Indian writers, artists and sundry activists, aimed at demonizing a popular leader, collapsed so colossally. As Hindu sages aver, it’s all about time and place. As the real Taliban cousins—ISIS—turned up uninvited at a rock concert in Paris, … the high decibel calumny [...]

A very interesting  and humorous view from a Hindu in UK on Modi and the Hindphobes [...]

There are those who consider a lecture on ancient discipline as intolerable as a beheading. During the last few months many journalists have raged against perceived excesses and moral lapses of the Indian government. In turn, the journalists have been criticised in the social media for their hypocrisy. Many historians have also piled on in [...]

“The anti-Hindu Left retains a strong place in journalism and academia, which became entrenched during the long period of the Congress rule. We must remember that India’s Left holds positions far to the left of mainstream liberal political parties in the West, and uses the rhetoric of the communist era. The Left is upset that [...]

According to a new book, there were glaring cases of Hindus living in Muslim areas suffering terribly, which were purposely overlooked by the human rights activists. A group of human rights activists and academics, both at home and abroad, have once again tried to rake up the 2002 Gujarat riot episode, with the aim of reducing some of [...]

Amma will present a draft for Rs 100 crore to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a function in Kerala at the Amritapuri Ashram on September 11. The money will be utilised for the purpose of constructing toilets in poor villages surrounding the Ganges. Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Clean Ganga initiative has caught the attention [...]

In a recent column, Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury denounced the International Yoga Day as a shallow lifestyle gimmick and an attempt to Hinduise India’s diverse society at the cost of attending to serious problems like poverty. Though he concedes that yoga might be beneficial to the individual’s health and [...]