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A Hindu soldier’s journey through the US Army took a disturbing turn when his religious identity became a target. Second Lieutenant Harish Rao, a Hindu of Indian origin, was reportedly barred from training and threatened with deportation back to India simply for wearing a tilak, a sacred Hindu mark. Removed from training and placed among [...]

The irony is that Obama himself had been accused and bashed of being Hindu by right-wing Christian fundamentalists when he talked about his lucky Hanuman pendent. And he was further attacked by the left for his yeh dosti Sholay-style relationship with Modi especially when he first unbanned him from the US when in power. They [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Protesters demanding that Nepal be turned back into a Hindu nation scuffled with police Monday and threw chairs at the country’s deputy prime minister when he was collecting suggestions on a draft constitution. About 200 protesters from Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal stormed into the national stadium chanting slogans as Deputy Prime Minister [...]

A majority of people wanted the word to be replaced by “Hindu” or “religious freedom,” according to Nepal’s Constituent Assembly In a major change, Nepal’s political parties have agreed to remove the word “secularism” from the new constitution. Nepal was declared a secular country in 2007 after Nepal’s hardcore Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist joined [...]