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The manner in which the students at the Wharton School were forced to drop the Indian politician Narendra Modi from their event after some faculty members used factual inaccuracies to demonize the speaker has a surreal parallel in the world of literature. In “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” the following exchange takes place in the court [...]

 Lord Shiva, Hanuman and goddess Durga do not represent any particular religion but are regarded as supernatural powers of the universe, the Nagpur income tax appellate tribunal has said. The observation came when the tribunal was hearing an appeal by Nagpur-based Shiv Mandir Devstan Panch Committee Sanstan against an income tax commissioner’s order denying it [...]

Government today ruled out granting refugee status to Pakistani Hindu immigrants who have crossed over to India to escape persecution there. “At the moment, we cannot grant them refugee status,” Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran said replying to a discussion on a private members’ resolution in the Lok Sabha. He, however, said no [...]

Hindraf Chairman Mr. Waythamoorthy is on Hunger Viratham since Shiva Rathiri 10/03/2013 in Malaysia demanding equal human rights for the Malaysian Indian hindu Community have been marginalised since 1957. During his exile in UK in 2012 the Hindraf Chairman Mr. Waythamoorthy along with other Malaysian Indians have filed an civil action in July 2012 against the [...]

Allahabad: Female ascetics taking part in the maha kumbh here will celebrate womanpower next month at a function where an award will be conferred posthumously on the Delhi braveheart, who went down fighting off injuries sustained during a fatal assault and gang-rape earlier on December 16. While the braveheart will be honoured in the presence [...]

Sent to HHR by Phulloo Megwar the Uncle of  Vijanti unfolding the series of events that lead to her tragic ordeal. “Vijanti,6 year old daughter of poor labourer Munwar Meghwar Meghwar, residing in Ghulam Nabi Shah a small town of district Umerkot , Sindh Pakistan. On the unfortunate evening of 4th December 2012, she was [...]

On 4 December 2012 six year old Vijanti Meghwar was brutally raped in Ghulam Nabi Shah village, district Taluka Pithoro Umerkot, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Vijanti belongs to the Meghwar community of the country’s minority Hindu population. She was found unconscious and lying in the street. Such a heinous crime was made easier [...]

There is currently a government consultation on education. The UK Government is proposing to make the following changes to the education system in the UK: 1.       To introduce an ‘English Baccalaureate’ at ‘Key stage 4’ for 16 year-olds 2.       To introduce a compulsory language at ‘Key stage 2’ for 7 to 11 year-olds The inclusion of Sanskrit [...]

On 14 November 2012, Prof. Deepak Sarma posted an article on Huffington Post, titled “White Hindu converts: mimicry or mockery?” In that blog, he defines Hindus in America as an ethnic group animated by a memory of the colonized condition. It should, he argues, mistrust attempts by white Americans to convert to their religion. These [...]

          Washington, Nov 7 — While all five Indian-American candidates hoping to enter the US Congress lost out, Tulsi Gabbard today created history by becoming the first Hindu-American to enter the US House of Representatives. An Iraq war veteran, 31-year-old Gabbard defeated K. Crowley of the Republican Party with a handsome [...]