Global Hindus

Canadian MP Chandra Arya in the Canadian Parliament today called out to distinguish between the Hindu religious sacred symbol Swastika and the Nazi symbol of hatred called Hakenkreuz in German or the hooked cross in English [...]

Dozens of people gathered at the Laxmi Narayan Temple in Surrey, B.C., on Saturday afternoon to protest what they describe as the offensive use of a Hindu deity in a B.C. company's logo. The protesters accuse the company, Big D--k Energy Coaching, of using inappropriate language underneath a photo of Lord Ganesha — a deity with an elephant head, known as the Hindu god of wealth, sciences, knowledge, [...]

Priests and devotees at temples in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are in a state of fear as half-a-dozen such places of worship have been vandalised and burgled over the past ten days, with cash stolen from donation boxes and even ornaments adorning idols stolen. [...]

Hinduphobia, of course, has not been clearly argued or presented, despite being a word with a far longer anti-colonial, anti-“White supremacy,” history than a word like Islamophobia, it remains stuck in fringe social media usage because of the sheer obliviousness of our Starbucks activist upper class Hindus. Hinduphobia is not seen as a human rights reality [...]

Unlike most Hindu orgs run by self-appointed Hindu spokespeople who don’t even know the ABC of Hinduism or have the skills to articulate the Hindu cause , Australian Hindu Association has a clear strategy backed by active Hindus along much more as explained by Shree Amendra Singh,Councillor Suman Saha and Namrata Singh. Check for more [...]

A Roman Catholic priest is collecting and saving hundreds of traditional pre-Christian religious artefacts in southeast Nigeria that new converts to Christianity had planned to burn. The collection includes carvings of pagan deities and masks, some of them more than a century old and considered central to the pre-Christian religion of the Igbo people, who traditionally [...]

While the world observes 'World Children’s Day', an 11-year-old Hindu boy was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Sindh. His body was found on Saturday in Babarloi town in Khairpur Mir's. According to family members, the boy, Kaana Sachdev, went missing on Friday evening and his body was later found in an abandoned house within the [...]

Former screen idol turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot was fined 20,000 euros by a court on France’s Indian Ocean island of La Reunion over a 2019 diatribe where she described its inhabitants as “savages”. “The natives have kept their savage genes,” the animal rights campaigner wrote in an open letter attacking the islanders for [...]

Author: Vamsee Juluri   Note: an edited version of this was first published in The Print on November 1, 2021. The version below restores some sentences and some links.   The meeting between India’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and (nobody said “Christian Expansionist”) Pope Francis reminds me of a phenomenon that media researchers have been talking about for over a century now – propaganda. Propaganda [...]

Critically Interrogating the Hinduphobia Narrative: Transcript of Lecture at Massey University CARE Institute on 25 August 2021. https://fb.watch/7BZ-d-cMi7/   [Kinakota kataha?Maori] I am professor Mohan Dutta Director of the Center for Culture -Centred Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) and I’m delighted to share with you my thoughts on Hindutva, the ideology of hate that [...]