World Focus

The arrest of an Indian national in Jeddah, for allegedly posting a blasphemous image of the Kaaba on his Facebook page, has seen experts warn that such content violates the country’s cyber laws and can mean jail time and heavy fines. Indian Consul General B.S. Mubarak confirmed that the Indian national has been jailed for [...]

Sir John Hawkins had the dubious distinction of becoming the first slave-ship captain to bring Africans to the Americas. Hawkins was a religious gentleman who insisted that his crew “serve God daily” and “love another”. His ship, ironically called “the good ship Jesus,” left the shores of his native England for Africa in October 1562. [...]

In this fourth in the series, we look at how France has politically and intellectually nurtured and fostered the forces of radical Islam. At first glance this may seem incongruous. It was France after all which pioneered a radical form of secularism, a total separation of religion and state. The source of this secularist dogma [...]

President Obama as with any national leader comes in for criticism and attack. The duties of office require the navigation of many conflicting and contradictory interests. However a large proportion of this has degenerated into conspiracy theories which bring out the worst in racial and cultural stereotypes. The recent massacres in France over the publication [...]

Father Christmas an Indian ? A clip from Goodness Gracious Me where “Mr. Everything Comes From India” tells his daughter why Santa comes from India [...]

My local supermarket plays Christmas music. Yours probably does too. My neighbors have Christmas trees. So do yours, no doubt. At this time of year, in the major cities if not nationwide, you might almost think you were in a Christian country. You’re not, of course. The trappings are deceptive — decorative, rather. Santa Claus [...]

Flashback to a darker time through print ads that ran December 14-18 1971 in the Dawn newspaper. Estimates say 2.4 million Hindus killed in 1971 – where was the world then ? “As the Pakistan army moved out into the countryside to “crush the Awami League,” all evidence-including the simple fact that the bulk of [...]

The Hindu Human Rights Group in conjunction with the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) invites you to the book launch of The Education System in Pakistan: Discrimination and the Targeting of the ‘Other’ Speakers include the following book contributors: Peter Tatchell (Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation) Desmond Fernandes (Genocide Scholar) Faiz Baluch (International Voice [...]

What can meditation do to help a war-torn nation heal? This is a question spiritual teacher Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been asking for decades and one that has be a primary concern of his since war broke out in Iraq in 2003. Shankar’s spiritual community, The Art of Living Foundation, first started doing work [...]

When it comes to highlighting the caste system as a flimsy pretext to engage in aggressive evangelisation and attacks on Hinduism, both the Church of England and Roman Catholic Church have always made their menacing presence felt. Using their respective vast wealth, the coffers of the ecclesiastical treasury are put to their optimum use. Whenever [...]