An Instance of Hinduphobia in Edwin Bryant’s “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”
(Image courtesy: businessinsider.in) It is unfortunate that most Yogasutra classes in universities, colleges, and yoga institutions happen through English in India. Teaching of the Yogasutras ... Read More
Cow Slaughter And The British Raj
(Image source: istockphoto.com ) “Though the Muhammadans’ cow killing is made the pretext for the agitation, it is in fact directed against us, who ... Read More
Reclaiming Yoga
(Image: istockphoto.com) In an interview with The Wall Street Journal recently Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that he uses non-sleep deep rest, or NSDR, ... Read More
“Secular” Distortions of The Syncretic Bengali Calendar
(Image: istockphoto.com) In recent years, it has become a tradition of sorts for certain online media portals to recycle old articles during major Hindu festivals ... Read More
Amy Waxes Incoherent: It is the Poison in the Ivies
(Picture credit: kolumbus24.com) Ah, yes! These days we cannot have even a moment’s respite from the world as we are constantly bombarded with the blathering, ... Read More
Holy Shit! – Manufactured
(Image courtesy: HuffPost India) The American Society of Microbiology on March 31 published a research paper titled “Are Unique Regional Factors the Missing Link in ... Read More
Dalit Narratives in the US: Fact and Fiction
(Image courtesy: janataweekly.org) Dalits are the new cause célèbre here in the United States of America, which now has become a new center for hatching ... Read More
India Facts – 2022 Fellowships — Announcement
We are pleased to offer ten fellowships this year, with durations of one month or three months. One-month Fellowships Number of fellowships: Five Duration of ... Read More
The Kashmir Files: An Inconvenient Truth
(Image courtesy: Reuters) Many in the diaspora who know of Birmingham, England, will be aware of its links to the Kashmir issue. In 1984, Indian ... Read More
Decolonization and Resurgence/Revival/Reawakening of Hindutva
(Image courtesy: Curlytales.com) Editor’s Note: Through the ages, Hindus, or whatever we have called ourselves, have been reformists. Some have compared Hinduism to an “open ... Read More
“The Kashmir Files” — A Review
This is a review, and not an advertisement or publicity piece of a truly revolutionary film by a truly great nationalist filmmaker. It is revolutionary ... Read More
An AI-Based Approach to Monitor, Expose, and Counter Anti-Hindu Hate
Anti-Hindu sentiment has been on the rise in recent years. It is a sentiment that advances, amplifies, and articulates hatred against Hindus and Hinduism (1). ... Read More
“India on the Brink”: An Agenda Driven “Summit” of Fearmongers and Mischief-makers
It was the same coterie of anti-India communists, leftists, and Muslim and Christian apologists and supremacists, with their same old anti-Hindu diatribes, that gathered at ... Read More
Recalibrating and Understanding Hindu Philosophy: God Does Not Play Dice
(Image courtesy: genius.com) Editor’s Note: Through the ages, Hindus, or whatever we have called ourselves, have been reformists. Some have compared Hinduism to an “open ... Read More
A “Summit” of Crooks, Criminals, Conspirators, and the Cussed: Hinduphobes Gather to Provoke, Once Again
Image Courtesy: dreamstime.com Tanks are rumbling into Kyiv/Kiev, missiles are raining down on the besieged capital, and world leaders are scrambling to figure out what ... Read More
God Save the Hindus: Need for a Constitutional Amendment
(Image courtesy: indusscrolls.com) The hijab controversy in Karnataka has now been referred to the full bench of the Karnataka High Court. Supporters of hijab wearing ... Read More
The Saptapadī Rite of the Hindu Wedding: A Modern Commentary
Photo/Image courtesy: Subir Adhikary Photography Editor’s Note: This article is in the series of articles on Hindu wedding ceremonies which we have published in response ... Read More
Bringing Caste Discrimination to American College Campuses: A Ploy to Fan Hinduphobia
(Image courtesy: onmanorama.com) “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr There are two kinds of controversies: one which ... Read More
Hijab: “Freedom” and “Rights” Under Cover
(Image courtesy: dnaindia.com) The Hijab row in Karnataka seems to be stirring more political hornets than enlightening us about the religious sanctity or its social ... Read More
Philology versus Misology
According to the ancient Greeks, philology is the study of ancient myths and tales to understand one's immortal nature and relationship to the divine. Indologists ... Read More
Islamic Sources and the Myth of Kamala Devi & Deval Devi
Character assassination of a medieval Hindu queen and a princess in modern historiography based on a preference of Islamic sources… Alauddin Khilji, the Sultan of ... Read More
What The Haridwar Conference Got Wrong
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Swarajya on January 12, 2022. Reprinted with permission. Let us not mince words. The Haridwar Sammelan was ... Read More
The Rise and Fall of the Hindu Mahasabha
INTRODUCTION The 20th century, in the history of India as well as that of the world, will always be remembered as a tumultuous century of ... Read More
“What Does it Mean to be ‘Indian’?” – A Review
Who do you think you are? Ask this question of the ordinary small town or rural vernacular-schooled Indian and they instinctively point to traditions, rituals, ... Read More
British Raj and the Defaming of India since the 1800s (III)
Editor’s Note: This is the third in the three-part series of articles summarizing Dharampal’s work on the British origins of demonizing and undermining India and ... Read More
The Haridwar Sannyasi Assembly: An Emergent Face of Hinduism
When we say “fundamental face” of a religion in this article, we mean that the “Means of Knowledge” is their scripture (Quran, Hadith, Bhagavad Gita, ... Read More
Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah
(Image source: Big Dick Energy Coaching) In February 2022, Big Dick Energy Coaching, a Surrey (British Columbia, Canada) based company was under fire for inappropriately ... Read More