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The decline of Christianity as our unifying religion has seen modern society finding faith in a much older world “Paganism” is a word with which to conjure. From The Iliad to the Wicker Man, it has been part of Western culture, and has in recent times come to mean everything from an esoteric worldview to [...]

In this video going viral, a mother stands beside her disabled son while gently encouraging and helping him to walk proudly on stage as the great warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. These scenes captured many hearts globally, seeing a boy rise with confidence thanks to his mother, but it’s also rooted in Hindu history and Hinduism, [...]

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 [...]

Indian student Kautilya Pandit challenged Pakistan at the Oxford Union over its narrative on Kashmir demography. Kautilya said thousands of years of history were wiped out during the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. Kautilya Pandit directly targeted Pakistan, saying, “You reap what you sow,” and mocked its military strength saying “93,000 Pak soldiers surrendered in 1971, [...]

A Hindu singer gets threatened for singing ‘Jago Ma’. This is not in neighbouring Islamic fascist states of Bangladesh or Pakistan, but in a country of one billion Hindus known as India, who can go in their 100s of millions to the Kumbh Mela and other Hindu festivals but never come out to defend Hindus [...]

Dipu Chandra Das, who used to work at a garment factory in Bhaluka Upazila, Bangladesh, was beaten to death by a far right Jihadist mob that accused him of making derogatory statements against Islam and the Prophet. After the beating, the mob hanged his body from a tree and set it on fire.  In a [...]

Global football icon Lionel Messi performed aarti and took part in traditional Hindu rituals during his visit to Vantara, the wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and conservation centre in Gujarat’s Jamnagar, where he was hosted by Anant Ambani and his wife Radhika Merchant. Visuals shared by news agency ANI on X show the FIFA World Cup winner [...]

As Hinduism, which is Sanathan Dharma, is endless and evolving through the cycles of time, so not stuck in any one place, country or a chapter of history or even any one genre of music, from the traditional to current pop culture, which is why we’re also seeing the expansion of Hinduism across the world [...]

A 75-year-old freedom fighter (Muktijoddha) and his wife were found brutally murdered, their throats slit, at their home in Bangladesh's Rangpur. No case has been filed or arrests made over the murder of the elderly couple, whose two sons serve as police officers. The Awami League said the incident highlighted a surge in attacks on [...]

With the ‘Hindu heathen pagan savages’ still existing, it’s not surprising that Salman Rushdie is now going on a Hindu bash trip as Hinduphobia is normalised in the world across all political spectrums. The danger that lies in all this, at some point, especially if one knows Hindu history, is that Hinduism and Hindus survived [...]