I was reading the New Yorker, November 9h 2009 issue that features walking among autumn leaves on the cover. Inside is a radically different illustration of animals in slaughter as it is that time of year in...
9 Muslim men in the age group of 22-24 were arrested by Banglaore police for beating a Hindu youth, Madeyan, to death. His crime - talking to Hajira, a Muslim girl he loved. Bangalore police was about to write off the case because they could not establish the identity of the...
Hindus and Sikhs celebrated Diwali in a big way this year with Mahautsav, a 30-hour concert and film premiere. Mahautsav, which is being touted as the biggest and longest South Asian event in the history of...
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The Taliban are now carrying out attacks and suicide bombings deep in the heart of Pakistan. A sign that the Islamic extremist have the resources and the support to strike in two nations at the same time. It's safe to say that at this moment in time the Taliban have gained...
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India is planning on investing around $3 billion in cleaning the river Ganges, which flows through northern India and Bangladesh. Currently, around 50 percent of Delhi's raw sewage flows straigt into the Ganges. ...
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Mother Ganga. That is what 450 million Indians dependent on river Ganga (Ganges) for their life calls this 2510 km long river. Considered as a holy river and goddess who can washes away all...
Julia Roberts has angered Hindu villagers in India when they found out a local temple had to be shut down, preventing them from celebrating the Navratri religious festival, because of her film. Worshipers at Ashram Hari Mandir, near Delhi, reported that the Oscar-winning...
Burger King Used Hindu Goddess of Wealth, Lakshmi to do the advertisement.And reaction was inevitable.They use this kind of pseudo ad to get the media headlines, and in this case they are successful, they are hitting the headlines of Indian Media.Burger King is not present in...
India's gay, lesbian, transgendered and bisexual folks take to the streets of capital New Delhi to repeal the British colonial black law against sodomy, called Indian Penal Code 377.The crowd estimated at hundreds...
Three Tamil students in their 20's are walking from Chicago to Washington, D.C. to tell America about rights violations in Sri Lanka.They began their walk on May 26 and will probably finish in October."CHAMPAIGN – Three minority Tamils from the island of Sri Lanka were in...
Hindu religious leaders and over 800 Tamil businessmen met with President Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on Thursday (4th June). President addressed the gathering in Tamil after which a number of businessmen who were...
By Ravi Dixit After a full day of Trends and leads the final results are out and the tally for the political parties for the Lok Sabha Elections 2009 looks like this: Election 2009 Final Tally of Winning Alliances...
In an important ruling that can change the life and (after) death of many Hindus in Britain, a British High Court dismissed an application by a Hindu seeking right to be cremated in an open-air funeral pyre.
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Several merchants n the popular auction site Ebay recently decided that Hindu deities would be the next Djinn and many followed suit. This is unfortunate, because just like the Ebay Djinn (which turned thousands of years of Islamic culture on it's head), the faux Devatas are...
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