Religion Archive

The city of Kashi epitomizes the unshakeable resilience and unity of Hindus. Devastated multiple times by Islamic invaders, it rose again every time to be rebuilt and renewed by Hindus from all over Bharat, who ensured its perpetual rebirth and existence.

Whenever news of a ‘Ghar wapsi’ emerges, a question that many so-called secularists and “anti-Brahminical” voices ask is: Which caste will the converts enter?

An incident has come to light from Kolkata where the employees of a restaurant attacked the customers with sharp knives and rods during a spat. Jenifer Kirti Desai, sister of one of the victims, posted details of the incident on her Instagram account with photos and videos of injured victims.

The Assam government has shut down around 700 madrassas in the past few years, which has led to a massive uproar in the secular (that is, Islamist) coterie. But the state’s Chief Minister is anything but apologetic about having closed these madrassas. While many claims that this is an attack on the country’s secular fabric, the justification for why a secular government must fund religious studies of a particular faith system remains obscure.

The ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ (DGH) conference may in fact have helped open the eyes of many somnolent Hindus to the reality of Hinduphobia . The awakening was spurred on by vigilant Hindu groups like the Hindu American Foundation, Hindus on Campus, and Coalition of Hindus of North America.

Sometimes the darkest place on earth can be one’s own soul.

Two back-to-back cases of abduction, conversion for the forceful marriage of Hindu girls have been reported from Sindh of Pakistan. One victim is a minor aged 13 years, while the other is 19 year old. Both were abducted and married by men much older than them.

Our beloved Marxist and liberal historians are at it again, with their usual jibes of Hindu Dharma being illogical and scientifically fallible. Well, if there is one religion on the earth who historically hasn’t tolerated scientific criticism, it is none other than the religion which is apparently the religion of “peace, tolerance & equality” i.e Christianity.

Bharat has been castigated for ‘caste’, a European construct which was force-fitted onto our Varna/Jaati social categories. Ironically, racist colonizing cultures which committed numerous genocides and engaged in slave trading are the ones that have been demonizing us by claiming that social discrimination is intrinsic to our society.

Kerala has long preened itself for being India’s most literate state. According to the 2011 census, almost 96.11 per cent of males and 92.07 per cent of females were literate in the state. But that was 10 years ago.