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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 note […]
By Antony Thomas A damanged idol of Bal Krishna during a Hindu temple attack Dhaka, Bangladesh (CHAKRA) — Nine idols have been vandalized at a Kali Temple in Bangladesh by Islamists which has been standing for 200 years. According to temple committee president, Harendranath Barman, four of the nine damaged idols were found beheaded in Sudrahabi […]
The festival of Akshaya Tritiya is celebrated by members of the Hindu and Jain community. It is also called as Akha Teej and Vaishaka Teej. In the year 2011, it will be celebrated in the first week of May. This festival is placed in the category of special occasions, in India. Akshaya Tritiya is celebrated […]
By Tan Ong New Delhi, India (CHAKRA)– Hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered to protest against the lock down of the Kirti Monastery in Tibet by the Chinese government. The protest too place in Delhi where hundreds of Buddhist monks along with Tibetan activists took part in a peace rally. The message of universal brotherhood, peace […]
There has been much confusion in the last few weeks regarding the age of Sathya Sai Baba and the timeline of his presence in physical form, for Baba it is said, had declared that he would leave his physical form when he reached 96 years of age. This confusion in truth pertains to the modes […]
UK (CHAKRA) — During an incident, involving racial abuse, at a bus stop in Southhampton, a Sikh man had his turban stolen. The 29-year-old man was waiting at a bus stop outside of the Civic Center when three Caucasian men approached him swearing and shouting racial remarks. The man turned away ignoring the trio but […]
By Tina Sadhwani Sai Baba Evolution He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity: he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies… When one sees this Eternity in things that pass away and Infinity in the finite things, […]