Meena Harris, the popular niece of Democratic VP candidate Kamala Harris and daughter of the Democratic VP campaign chair, has been criticized for modifying an auspicious and holy picture of the Hindu Goddess (Devi) Durga in reference to the Presidential US 2020 elections and the Hindu festival of Navratri. Taking place on Sunday (October 18), […]
Islamic Supremacy and Discrimination runs Deep in Canadian Social Equity Circles But Rarely Confronted
This week Markham-based Haleema Mustafa was arrested over allegations she left Canada to join ISIS (a Fascist Islamist militant group), the Public Prosecution Service of Canada confirmed in summer of 2020. Haleema’s husband and Guelph-based Ikar Mao was also faced with 2 terrorism-related charged by Canadian authorities. ISIS has been responsible for the genocide of […]
Why does no one care for underage Hindu minority girls in South Asia?
(CHAKRA) In the last month, there has been an uptick in social media activity among Pakistani women activists, but beyond a few social media circles the crisis of abductions and forced conversions (to Islam) of underage hindu and other non-muslim religious minority women has gone widely unreported. Reports from human rights orgs and local media […]
How Bigots and Abrahamic Supremacists conflate Hindu Identity with Hindu Nationalism
It’s Sunday morning at 2am, and what do I do after a night of chilling with friends? I open Twitter. A big mistake. The big buzz words ‘WOKE’, ‘SOUTH ASIAN’ pop up, followed by a 3rd word, even more interesting – SARASWATI. For those that don’t know, ‘Saraswati’ is the auspicious GODDESS of wisdom, arts […]
Music is an Expression of Faith and Culture for Young Caribbean Hindus
Throughout much of Indian Hindu culture, music has become an integral part in many aspects of traditional and religious practices. Over the recent decades, Indian music has been gaining worldwide popularity, with artists of various backgrounds incorporating Indian styles of sound to compliment their work. We live in a time of strong global connectivity and […]
A few things made Diwali celebrations in 2017 a bit more special. Happy Diwali
A lot of things make Diwali celebrations auspicious, but in 2017, there have been a few notable events that have taken place that made the festive Diwali season even more special. Diwali (also called Deepavali) is the biggest festival in India and the most widely celebrated festival for Hindus globally. In modern times, the dharmic festival of Deepavali has […]
Hindus Celebrate Good vs. Evil – Shubh Vijayadashami & Happy Dussehra 2017
On Saturday September 29th, millions of Hindus worldwide celebrated one of their most auspicious festivals known as Dussehra. Also, known as Vijayadashami, Dussehra symbolizes Good energy and forces over Evil powers and is based on ancient Indian history where King Ravana of historic Lanka was defeated by Lord Shri Rama. Dussehra is celebrated in all […]
American Hindus Condemn Large Mass Graves of Hindu Bodies in Myanmar
American-Hindu human rights body and community advocacy group, Hindu American Foundation said they were deeply disturbed by reports that a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 murdered Hindus had been discovered in conflict-wracked Rakhine state in Myanmar. [At the time of this article, mass graves of dead Hindu bodies totaled over 45] Equally disturbing they […]
New Film Tackles Wide Array of Issues Around Meat and How it Slowly Kills us
A new documentary/film out of India treads the path of an activist-style anti-tobacco campaign–by tactically replacing the toxic substance of ‘tobacco’ with ‘meat’. Once it was scientifically established that tobacco caused multitude of chronic life-threatening diseases like cancer and heart disorders, smoking was turned into a synonym of death in 1964. Drawing heavily from medical evidence […]
University of Toronto to Host Controversial Speaker Accused of Bigotry Against Hindus and Sikhs
One of the most controversial of speakers and so-called experts on the history of South Asia and the Mughal empire in particular, Audrey Truschke, will be paying a visit to the University of Toronto’s prestigious Munk School of Global Affairs. Audrey Truschke is often criticized by Indians as being bigoted and biased towards the non-Abrahamic […]
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