We can wrangle and preach for religion, fight for it, die for it; do anything but live it. I had heard these lines long and always related it to the situations happening in real life. We turn the pages of newspapers or click any TV channels; we find examples of people doing so. We see [...]
By Jagmit Singh
Canada (CHAKRA) – Thousands and thousands of women are forced into arranged marriages which go “quickly awry”—however, this is not limited to the Sikh Punjabi population of India. Arranged marriages were and still are a common practice in many places around the world. The fact that the case of Indians and Punjabis in [...]
By Vikay Paul
UP, India (CHAKRA) — Why are so many religious conversions in India going unnoticed? The majority of the population there is quick to point out that “Hindu Fundamentalists have done….,” or that “The BJP, Hindu Nationalist Party is fanatical,” when such parties bring to attention the problem of forced conversions in the country. [...]
By Tan Ong
Singapore (CHAKRA) – When Ben Loke wanted to boost his luck with financial prospects, he did not turn to hi banker or broker but instead the 35-year-old went to a professional tattoo shop to ink on his back a “sak yant” religious symbol in hopes of wealth and happiness.
”I’m a Buddhist, and the [...]
By Karishma Patel
Ahmedabad, Gujarat (CHAKRA) – Jain Doctor Association (JDA) and Sabarmati Jain Shvetambar Murtipujak Sangh, DRDO, Sristi, IIM-A and Gujarat Vidhyapith and a team of scientists from Defene Institute of Physiology and Applied Sciences (DIPAS), have undertaken a scientific study to see the effects of voluntary and complete fasting on metabolic homeostasis’. A link [...]
Submitted by Arindam Bandyopadhyay
Bollywood Actor Sharukh Khan
Your name is a household phenomenon in Indian and even beyond her borders. Your fame has put you in the Newsweek “most powerful people list” recently. However, as you may recall from your recent experience in New Jersey Airport, real life is a little different – it does not [...]
Banking and Finances
By:Camille
I had a long and interesting conversation with a friend of mine this weekend on different attitudes towards finance and charity between different world religions. We noted that both Judaism and Sikhi require a 10% charitable contribution, in addition to service , which has no upper or lower bound and serves a different purpose. [...]
By studying patients before and after surgery to remove a brain tumour, a team of Italian researchers has identified anatomical changes in the
brain that may be linked to shifts in spiritual and religious attitudes.
The team has uncovered another clue that directly links brain activity and spirituality.
“Neuroimaging studies have linked activity within a large network in [...]
By:Rudra Chatterjee, HinduVoice UK
I went to see the twelve years in making James Cameron epic “Avatar” the other day. There had already been some talk in Hindu circles regarding the movie’s use of the Hindu word/concept as its title. But, being a huge fan of the Terminator movies (Terminator 2 in particular), this wasn’t my [...]
By: Lisa Miller
America is not a Christian nation. We are, it is true, a nation founded by Christians, and according to a 2008 survey, 76 percent of us continue to identify as Christian (still, that’s the lowest percentage in American history). Of course, we are not a Hindu—or Muslim, or Jewish, or Wiccan—nation, either. [...]
