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Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia but grew up in Nairobi. The Somali community in which she lived was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood who transformed Ali and her teenage friends from believers into Islamic activists. Yet in 1992 she claimed asylum in the Netherlands as she escaped a forced marriage Following the 11 September [...]

Russia has blasted Ukraine after one of its government accounts mocked Hindu Goddess Kali on Twitter. Russian envoy to UN accused Ukraine of disrespecting all faiths including the Hindu faith. This as Ukraine regretted the post, which has now been deleted, and called for increasing friendly ties with India.#goddesskali #putin #ukraine Ukraine’s defence ministry tweeted [...]

Russian dolls are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. Unpackaging Russia itself has been an issue for western commentators. It was after all Winston Churchill who defined Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma," and his words in 1939 spoke eloquently to the Western sense of [...]

In true Krishna Bhakti, Krishna devotees are staying behind to protect the temple from attacks. Also, they are taking care of some local neighbours along with daily Prashad who are staying with them. In Hindi and English Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, Kyiv's ISKCON temple has become home for Ukrainians?- ABP News Live 24/7 [...]

Amazon series Man in the High Castle is based upon a book by the same name. Deviating quite substantially from the original book by Phillip K Dick written in 1962, it nevertheless keeps the basics of the plot. This is a world in which the Axis powers have won the war, with Germany having developed [...]

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. [...]

Under the leadership of Bill and Hillary, the Democratic Party moved away from their traditional base of support, the working class, already in the 1990’s, to embrace Wall Street, Big Pharma, Fossil Fuel Industry, and the War Machine. They figured the left had nowhere else to go. Bill and Hillary began the deregulation of Wall Street, [...]

These days there is a rebirth old Slavic pagan traditions in Russia and rest of the Slavic countries. The followers of Slavic paganism often build copies of old pagan Idols (Kumir) monuments of wood and stone and then gather for some rituals, fun or anything Slavic Rodnovers do. They usually try to reconstruct the true [...]

Officials in the city of Nizhnevatrovsk reportedly fear that Hatha yoga is a practice with “an occult character.” Officials in the central Russian city of Nizhnevartovsk have moved to prevent municipal buildings from hosting yoga classes in a stated bid to stifle the spread of religious cults, the Kommersant business daily reported. Representatives of at least two of the city’s Hatha yoga studios — the Aura and Ingara — have [...]

 The anti-Hindu bias in western media outlets such as the BBC, CNN and Sky have been well-known. The situation was hardly likely to change for the better with Fox News and Al-Jazeera. Indeed it can be hard to differentiate between them. The BBC is regarded as establishment fodder, and with its ideological moorings to the [...]