Menstruating Women Are Blocked From Temple In Video Game — And In Real Life
Source: NPR BY SUSHMITA PATHAK Two years ago, Padmini Ray Murray created a controversial video game at a hackathon contest. But it’s not just a game. It a microcosm of […]
Source: NPR BY SUSHMITA PATHAK Two years ago, Padmini Ray Murray created a controversial video game at a hackathon contest. But it’s not just a game. It a microcosm of […]
Source: Reuters By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Spirituality, politics and tourism: welcome to the Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest gathering of humanity, that begins next month in India. […]
Dec 21, 2018 – SWISSINFO.CH Labourers work on an under-construction pontoon bridge spanning the river Ganga ahead of the “Kumbh Mela”, or the Pitcher Festival, in Allahabad, India, November 20, […]
Source: BBC News Four transgender women have been allowed to pray at an Indian temple at the centre of a bitter row over whether women should be permitted to enter. […]
Source: BBC News A monk meditating in a forest in the Indian state of Maharashtra has died in a leopard attack, officials say. Rahul Walke had been “meditating under […]
Source: BBC News Tens of thousands of Hindus have marched in the Indian capital, Delhi, to call for a temple to be built on a hotly contested religious site. Organisers […]
Source: USA Today BY Oliver Thomas and Charles C. Haynes, Opinion contributors In the turbulent 1960s, John Courtney Murray famously reminded Americans that the Constitution begins with “we the, people,” […]
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Safi in Delhi Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, has upset Hindu nationalists and some members of the Brahmin caste in India by posing for a picture with […]
Source: The New York Times By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj THATI, India — When Sardar Singh Jatav set out walking on a muggy night in early September to talk with the men […]
Source: Time By MAHITA GAJANAN November 13, 2018 It took President Donald Trump three tries before he recognized Hindus in a White House celebration of Diwali on Tuesday. Earlier in the […]
Source: Reuters BY Malini Menon, Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top court on Tuesday agreed to review its ruling that removed a ban on women of menstruating age from entering […]
Source: Reuters By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has been turning up the heat on some controversial and potentially […]
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Protesters on Saturday set fire to a Hindu religious center in southern India for supporting a Supreme Court decision allowing women of menstruating […]
Source: Khaleej Times Around 59 people were killed in the tragedy. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan recently reacted to India’s train tragedy which claimed the lives of 59 revellers. The […]
Source: The Guardian By Michael Safi in Delhi An Indian city in a state led by a hardline Hindu nationalist preacher accused of instigating violence against Muslims has had its Muslim name changed to […]
Source: Associated Press HISAR, India (AP) — A court in northern India sentenced a Hindu guru and 14 followers to life imprisonment on Tuesday in the deaths of four women […]
Source: BBC News India’s Supreme Court has said women can no longer be barred from entering the Sabarimala temple, considered to be one of the holiest for Hindus. The temple […]
Source: Quartz By Jürgen Schaflechner When I began to research the ritual journeys to the Hinglaj Devi shrine in Balochistan, I knew little about the small Pakistani Hindu community. During my […]
Source: Reuters NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Hindu nationalist group behind the rise of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is opening up to critics and supporters through a first-of-its-kind outreach […]
Source: The Guardian BY Amrit Dhillon in Delhi Plans for a new luxury cruise liner on the Ganges river in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi have run into trouble, with priests […]