Tweet (UK) The furore over the phone hacking scandal which has led to the closure of the long-running tabloid News of the World, James and Rupert Murdoch being questioned by a parliamentary committee, the death of the journalist whistleblower, resignation of two senior police officers and a criminal investigation which is only in its beginnings [...]

Tweet By Linda Brock Bollywood Stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan during their Hindu Wedding Ceremony in India Lahore, Pakistan (CHAKRA) – A Hindu couple, Mukesh and Padma in Hyderabad Pakistan, tied the knot with a traditional Hindu ceremony but in a fashion different from the rest. The wedding, while having the seven pheras (seven [...]

Tweet By Sameer Thakkar (Guest Contributor) (Click here to read Part 1) Max Muller, one of the earliest Indologists, had happily concurred in a letter to his wife: “It (The Rigveda) is the root of their religion and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all [...]

Tweet By Ranbir Singh Bollywood Superstars London, UK – The recent Indian International Film awards were held in Toronto , and was taken as proof that Indian cinema had gone global. But what is it exactly that is being celebrated? Bollywood is taken by many to be the standard reference point and unofficial cultural ambassador [...]

Tweet Corruption and Crime we have been told is ‘religionless’. But is it really? One would really have to ponder this today because it seems like the biggest criminals who are now obsessively hunted down by the Indian media are not individuals and political parties associated with the recent scams and crimes against India, but rather two [...]

Tweet By Ranbir Singh Nick Cohen London, UK- Nick Cohen certainly has Hindus firmly within his sites judging by his latest tirade to appear in The Guardian, entitled The Secret Scandal of Britain’s Caste System. In yet another piece of colonial era propaganda dated from 26 June 2011, Cohen laments as to why the Equality [...]

Tweet West Delhi, India – Manoj, a car showroom manager was stabbed to death in Moti Bagh, Delhi after him and his brother decided to confront two men shouting negative verbal slurs outside of their house in West Delhi, Nihal Vihar. Manoj, 25, and his 27 year old brother, Jagbir who is a property dealer [...]

Tweet By Ranbir Singh The brutal suppression of Swami Ramdev’s protests against corruption which reaches to the highest echelons of the Indian government should come as no surprise to anyone who has had the unfortunate experience of coming face to face with the country’s administrative and highly bureaucratic infrastructure. Graft, greed, black money, backhanders and [...]

Tweet By Ranbir Singh  ( Hindu Human Rights UK ) In 2004 Hindu Human Rights Group contacted the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation )over its tabloid programme Secret Swami which portrayed India’s venerated Guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba in an ill founded, malicious light. However this elicited no response from BBC and it is interesting to [...]

Tweet It is not uncommon now that for many Gurus, Rishis or Seers who have emerged from India, there has always been an unprecedented number of vicious attacks launched on them. These have come in the guise of slander, misquotes, false allegations and myriad smear campaigns. Moreover it is interesting to note that most of [...]