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National Council of Hindu Temples (UK) – Press Release Oxford University bars Dr Subramanian Swamy & Rajiv Malhotra – Cancels lecture on “Indias Economy” & “Revisionist History” The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and [...]

AHMEDABAD: Next month, a Swaminarayan temple will be thrown open to devotees in Los Angeles, California. While there are many Hindu shrines the world over, a majority of them built by global Gujaratis, the consecration scheduled on July 22 is special. For, this abode of Lord Swaminarayan was once a run-down church. The 80-year-old church [...]

Recently during the celebration of Diwali, the festival of lights, provided the ideal opportunity to launch the Armed Forces Hindu Network. The Launch of the Armed Forces Hindu network was marked with a Diwali celebration  Serving personnel, Lord Astor and other invited guests gathered in MOD’s Whitehall headquarters for the Armed Forces Diwali Celebration. According [...]

When you think of the places where you’re likely to encounter mindfulness meditation—like a yoga studio or a temple or a serene health retreat—British Parliament is probably the last place you would think of. With a highly charged atmosphere that sometimes even erupts in shouting matches on the debate floor, it’s hard to imagine any [...]

The election of Narendra Modi as the choice for millions in the world’s largest democracy is a bit galling to those whose concept of ‘democratic’ resembles Lenin’s armed force against the elected government of Alexander Kerensky in revolutionary Russia. Yet even before Modi’s election in what proved to be a pivotal moment in Indian democracy [...]

Whenever the Indian elections are underway the western media is even more panicked than usual about the impending doom faced by the world’s largest democracy as it falls into the abyss of Hindu fascism, fundamentalism, nationalism, and other assorted ‘reactionary’ forces. The parrot-fashion use of such worn-out phrases and the lazy reliance on the chattering [...]

A video that exposes some Lords including Gunga-dins in UK playing caste politics to attack the Hindu community  by lying with facts and figures at the House of Lords.Some of these ‘Lord’s have links with christian fundamentalist groups. So this debate is part of a larger agenda set for breaking up India. [...]

The British public no longer fit into just three social classes, with society now split into seven based on economic, social and cultural measures, a major new study has discovered. Unlike the three traditional class divisions the new classes range from the privileged ‘elite’ to the deprived ‘precariat’  More than 160,000 people took part in [...]

In February 2002 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) along with other international broadcast networks reported on the outbreak of communal violence in Godhra, in the Indian state of Gujarat. From the BBC report one would have got the impression that Hindus were not even victims of the violence. Instead Hindus were blamed for the violence [...]

‘In recent years European religious and political  leaders along with leading academics have emphasised on returning to Europe’s ‘Christian’ Identity but history tells a different story that actually Europe’s historical Identity and roots  has more in common with Hinduism’ : On 11 April 2011  Ex-Pope Benedict XVI accused anyone who denied Europe ‘s Christian roots [...]