Source:Reuters BY Rupam Jain, Tom Lasseter 12 MIN READ The government of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi had quietly appointed the committee of scholars about six months earlier. Details of […]
Source: Quartz WRITTEN BY Vasudha Narayanan Last week marked the death anniversary of Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the West in the sixties and became a […]
Source: Associated Press By ZARAR KHAN ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan’s marginalized Hindu minority has been elected to the senate for the first time ever in an election […]
Source: BBC News A Hindu temple ritual in which boys aged between five and 12 years are pierced with metal hooks is stirring controversy in India after a senior police […]
Source: Telegraph UK Holi, a traditional Hindu festival which celebrates the beginning of spring as well as the triumph of good over evil, begins tomorrow. It is best known around […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla and Chris McGonigal RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS A student of Rabindra Bharati University, with his face smeared in colored powder, reacts in Kolkata, India. 730 […]
Source: The New York Times Hijras occupy a special place in Hinduism. But their relationship to modern Mumbai, where transgender people are legally recognized, remains fraught. Photographs by Sara Hylton Text […]
Source: The Atlantic BY ELIZABETH FLOCK In the days before Valentine’s Day 2009, members of a group called the Sri Ram Sena dragged several young women out of a pub […]
Source: Times Of India DUBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday officially launched the foundation stone-laying ceremony for the first Hindu temple in the capital of the UAE, home to […]
Source: Associated Press By ADIL JAWAD KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The first woman from Pakistan’s tiny minority Hindu community is poised to become lawmaker next month, after the country’s opposition […]
Source: The Conversation This week marks the death anniversary of Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the West in the sixties and became a spiritual teacher to […]
Source: Economic Times By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury NEW DELHI:Prime Minister Narendra Modi will witness video link to ground breaking (‘shila pujan’) for the first ever temple in Abu Dhabi during […]
Source: Associated Press By MUNEEZA NAQVI NEW DELHI (AP) — There was anger about a rumored romance between a Hindu queen and a Muslim invader. There were death threats. There […]
Source: Reuters BY Suchitra Mohanty, Shilpa Jamkhandikar NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected bids by two states to reinstate a ban on the disputed Bollywood film “Padmaavat”, […]
Source: Siasat There is a lot of controversy regarding Alauddin Khilji in the wake of the new Bollywood film, “Padmavati,” which purports to depict Khilji’s conquest of Chittor in 1303 […]
Source: Reuters By Rupam Jain, Swati Bhat NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Right-wing Hindu groups in India stepped up protests on Wednesday against the release of a controversial Bollywood film, as several […]
Source: Bloomberg By Anindya Upadhyay,Pratik Parija,Kanika Sood and P R Sanjai Violence against cattle owners—in a Hindu-majority country under a populist government—resulted in 11 deaths last year. Narendra Modi at an agricultural fair […]
Source: Gizmodo By Ed Cara Contrary to what you might assume after hate-browsing Facebook, it seems the internet may have actually made people less dogmatic about religion. A recent study published in the Journal […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI AND CONRAD HACKETT In popular culture, meditation often is associated with Eastern spirituality and its secular offshoots, such as mindfulness. But substantial shares of Americans of […]
Source: BBC News India’s film censor board has cleared the release of controversial Bollywood film Padmavati, reports say. The film, which tells the story of a 14th Century Hindu queen […]