Several Hindu organisations worldwide have protested the reported comments of the Archbishop of Russian Orthodox Church against Lord Krishna and his opposition to the consturction of a temple in Moscow. Archbishop Nixon in a letter to Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov made denigrating comments against Lord Krishna and further requested him to ban construction of a… Read More »
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr., a federal appeals judge, sided in 2001 with North Bergen against the same Hindu temple that now wants to build in Parsippany. Alito wrote a dissenting opinion when the 3rd Circuit Court Of Appeals, in a 2-1 vote, denied the North Bergen Board Of Adjustment’s appeal of… Read More »
A new foundation called Gospel and Hindus (Evangelie en Hindoes) is starting up in Rotterdam on December 2nd, 2005. It aims at serving the Christian churches in the Netherlands and Flanders (Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) to “witness to Hindus and to love them as their neighbours.” It will provide information about Hindus in Netherlands… Read More »
Syed Ali Mujtaba Bhajans by a band of Westerners, is that not surprising! More so if they claim to sing in Hindi, Bhojpuri and Nepali, fused with sitar, tabla, violin and guitar, any one with musical ears could be tempted to watch them perform live. Chris Hale, Peter Hicks and Fiona Hicks along with Uday… Read More »
“Hindus in the USA are lost or abandoned people!” “NRI stands for Non-Returning Indians!” “Indians in the USA do not invest in the higher education of their children!” Who in the USA do you think would have made derogatory statements to this effect? A. A Ku Klux Klansman B. A Bible thumping fundamentalist from Alabama… Read More »
Outlawed NLFT militants gunned down a man and his daughter, injured three others of the family and abducted an old person at Kanchanpur in Tripura’s Dhalai district last night, police said here today. Heavily armed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants attacked the house of one Anil Sen and sprayed bullets from their… Read More »
As with many an ethnic conflict that have occurred in the world, some Christian missionary groups took an interest in the ethnic conflict in the North-eastern Indian state of Tripura, believing that it would help promote their agenda of conversion to Christianity. The result has been devastating for the citizens of Tripura, particularly the Hindus.… Read More »
Another way that India is slowly losing its Vedic culture is through the process of secular or English and Christian education. Of course, in public schools all Vedic books have been removed from the curriculum. So there are no possibilities to study the ancient Indian literature or art. Thus Vedic values are no longer part… Read More »