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The rape of a 6 year old child in Pakistan has once again brought in to focus the precarious existence of the Hindu minority in that country. Vijanti Meghwar was subjected to this appalling crime by local Muslims in her locality. Historical animosities between the Hindu and Muslim communities led to an unprecedented bloodbath on [...]

In forming our opinions it is essential to have access to accurate information. In many respects the internet has broken down traditional barriers of communication. Valid criticism is levelled that this makes it difficult to authenticate facts. Nevertheless the well-worn methods of research and scholarship need not be compromised. Indeed they can be enhanced as [...]

Being different The debate about Rajiv Malhotra’s book Being Different was very instructive. At the end, Malhotra ably put his critics in their place, but first they had their say. I was appalled by the bad manners of Brian Pennington against the invited responder, Rajiv Malhotra: he wondered aloud, after a long diatribe which I [...]

Is the  Indian version of European Secularism anti Hindu ? Lets look at Chief  Minister Narender Modi and Emperor Akbar through Indian Secular eyes as a case study to find out how secularism in India works. For example In India, a small band of journalists, activists and politicians, all of who parade themselves as ‘Secularists’ [...]

One hears it all too often: ‘Hindus are cowards, they only deserve what they are suffering.’ Mahatma Gandhi said it clearly enough: ‘The Muslim is a bully, the Hindu a coward.’ But Hindus are by no means cowards. Hindus as such have their problems, but lack of bravery is not one of them. [...]

“Hindu culture is essentially based upon the sacrifice implied in duty, and not upon acquisition, which is implied in rights”. Swami Chinmayananda As every conscientious Hindu knows, there are some parts of our history that we can look upon with pride and others with shame. The question is; a few centuries from now, if you [...]

Meghnad Desai on his new book ‘Who Wrote the Bhagwad Gita?‘ “I wrote the book as a secular inquiry into the Gita because in a sense, I could never make head or tail of it and then I stopped trying. About two or three years ago, I was asked to deliver the Goswami lecture in [...]

The smuggling in of human refugees into a sovereign country without valid papers of entry visas is called human trafficking. If the humans happen to be refugee victims of persecution then it requires taking the consent of host countries through the United Nations agency and allocated by them between nations that agree to take them [...]

A row has erupted over a priest banning yoga from a church hall because the class was “not compatible” with the Catholic faith. Instructor Cori Withell said the classes she booked for yoga and pilates at St Edmund’s Church building in Southampton were cancelled with 10 days to go. She was told by the booking [...]

GLOBAL TRADE IS GOOD FOR THE HINDU NATION The ancient Hindu Harrapan civilization historians believe flourished by Global Free Trade.It is said that its metros sprawled a larger expanse than present day Manhattan and its GDP to world trade share then was comparably greater than today’s America but also this-That it somehow had not much [...]