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No, Hinduism Is Not Behind India’s ‘Rape Crisis’

No, Hinduism Is Not Behind India’s ‘Rape Crisis’

Pakistani journalist Shaan Khan’s piece “What’s Really Behind India’s Rape Crisis,” published this Friday (25/3/16) on The Daily Beast, looks at China and India — two countries with similarly skewed sex ratios — and asks why India in the last few years has experienced a “rape crisis,” while China has not. At the outset, one [...]

April 13, 2016 HHR Analysis/Insights, Archives, World Focus 0

Satyabhama : Krishna’s Warrior Wife

Satyabhama : Krishna’s Warrior Wife

Satyabhama is the only child of the Yadava chief Satrajit. Even though at the time it was more common to raise boys in martial arts and athletic pursuits the Bhagavatam Puranas teach an important lesson in equality with the introduction of Satyabhama in Krishna’s past times. Satyabhama was haughty and high-spirited and had very little [...]

August 29, 2013 HHR Understanding hinduism 0
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