Reuters - "The Love Guru" has
not received a warm welcome from some Hindu groups, who
reportedly have requested that India's Central Board of Film
Certification and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
ban screenings of the Mike Myers comedy in India.
From: The Role of Social Science in Nepal by Dev Raj Dahal Spiritual blindness of Nepalese social scientists has thus opened multiple gaps between their worldview and those of the citizens on various frontiers--theoretical knowledge and practical experience, technical understanding and composite knowledge and secularity of social science and the vitality of the Hindu-Buddhist scriptu
Activists of the Hindu Makkal Katchi have protested against Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat’s indecent attire while accompanying Hollywood action hero Jackie Chan to the music release of a Tamil film.
They threatened to sue Sherawat and the organisers for this "obscenity".
"We lodged a complaint against Sherawat for her attire at the music release function of ‘Dasavathaaram’ [...]
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World Hindu Chants - VA 2003 mp3 VBR 163mb - Times Music - Ethnic / Spritual / World Music
Tracklist:
1. Gayatri Mantra
2. Narayana
3. Govinda Jai Jai
4. Durga
5. Maha
6. Hari Bol
7. Aum Sree Ram
8. Radha Ramana
9. Namah Shivaya
10. Ram
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11. Aum Jai Jagdish Hare
baby Lalia reincarnation of a Hindu Goddess, thats what many people from New Delhi believed.Lali, the 1-month-old baby, is born with 2 faces-- two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes. an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, Lali has a single head with two faces. she is being hailed as a return of the Hindu goddess of valor, Durga, a fiery deity traditionally depicted with three eyes and many arms.as many as 100 people visit Lali's house daily to touch her feet out of respect, offer money and receive blessings!children who are born with such condition is usually linked to serious health complications, but not for baby Lali. with the ability to breathe and function normally, baby Lali is born healthy and fortunate and she'll lead a normal life like any oth
It was a typical day in the Karachi factory as men prepared to get ready for the day’s work in the leather factory. The men chatted, and for some reason the conversation got on the topic of religion. Words were exchanged, the conversation became more heated, and voices rose in anger. Suddenly, one of the [...]
Hindu New Year is celebrated by Hindus in the form of various springtime festivals like the festival of Baisakhi, which among other things, also marks the beginning of a New Year in Punjab. In Maharashtra, the festival of Gudi Padva which usually falls on the month of March or April. The natives of Andhra Pradesh celebrate the festival of Ugadi on the same day. The Kashmiri Hindus celebrate their
Asha Pandey discusses the status of women in the Hindu faith. She tells the story of modern female guru Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and how Nirmala Devi is helping to "reclaim the role of women in the spiritual evolution."
Hollywood actor Mike Myers is sparking controversy in Hindu communities for “lampooning” the religion in his new movie The Love Guru.The 44-year-old Austin Powers star who plays Guru Pitka in the upcoming film and repeats the mantra of Mariska Hargitay, inspired by the television actress, as his calming technique. But Hindu leader Rajan Zed [...]
" Los hombres de naturaleza demoniaca, oh principe !, no saben lo que es una buena accion ni lo que es reprimir una mala accion. No hay en ellos ni pureza, ni honradez, ni verdad.No tienen fe, y en su ignorancia creen que el universo no ha tenido Creador.No creen que el universo este gobernado por leyes inmutables. Niegan la existencia del Espiritu......Y el peso de los objetos de sensacion los precipita en los repetidos renacimientos, en planos cada vez mas inferiores..."Fragmentos del "Bhagavad Guita"(traduccion del Yogui Ramacharaka)
Chandigarh, March 11 (IANS) The Universal Society of Hinduism has expressed fear that the upcoming Hollywood movie 'The Love Guru' may lampoon the religion and has demanded that it be shown to the society members for vetting before release.
This is the front page of The Hindu on February 29, 2008. It's a full page ad hocking a new real-estate scheme. For more than a century The Hindu has been considered one of India's best newspapers, but selling its front page to an advertiser is nothing less than editorial treason.
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It seems blindingly obvious now, but the idea that Cambodia’s shining jewel, Angkor Wat is a popular tourist destination overlooks the fact that this “idea” is only of recent...
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St Paul used the word Saint to refer to all the believing Christians, even those still living on earth. We usually reserve it for those who have left this world in God’s friendship and are now with him in heaven forever.
Saints fly only in the eyes of their disciples.
Anger has no eyes.
When anger [...]
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Well folks…I guess that it is not easy to be a Hindu not only here in Malaysia (as highlighted by HINDRAF) but also in other parts of the world. Take a look at the recent fuss raised by the Hindu community in the United Kingdom for an example. I don't think anyone else outside their Hindu community can help them on that. The Hindus have to help themselves first.Why can't they just abolish that caste system of theirs and treat everyone like equals?Recently added:Whoa… It seems that this post have offended quite a number of people especially "gangeticus'.Believe me, the post was not meant to offend anybody. I'm just highlighting a global problem that is plaguing the Hindu community at the moment. In the past, I have discussed this matter with many of my Hindu friends and they all agreed that their caste system is creating a lot of problems in their own community here in Malaysia.Perhaps HINDRAF should tackle this internal issue first before pursuing anything else.Think abou
This is almost too funny to be true, but it appears that a judge in India has issued a summons to the Hindu gods Ram and Hanuman in order to end a decades long lawsuit involving land surrounding a temple dedicated to them.
Judge Singh sent out two notices to the deities, but they were returned as the addresses were found to be “incomplete”.
Local say the temple belongs to the gods. This prompted him to put out adverts in local newspapers summoning the gods.
“You failed to appear in court despite notices sent by a peon and later through registered post. You are herby directed to appear before the court personally”, Judge Singh’s notice said.
Can you imagine what would happen here in America if a judge ordered God/Jesus to appear in court to settle a dispute over something either one is alleged to have said or done? I bet people would be falling down in the streets at the audacity.
Everybody desires to marry on a auspicious day. We at ourwedding.in help you in this. Click here to see all the dates that are considered auspicious (as per Indian hindu traditions) during 2008. Pay attention to our disclaimer. Click Here to View the Dates.
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November 29, 2007 Dr. David Frawley of the American Institute of Vedic Studies writes, in an interesting essay, that what has been characterized as the “Hindu right” in India is substantially different from “right wing” groups in other countries and cultures. The essay is entitled, The Myth of the Hindu Right, and I quote from it below:The idea of the ‘Hindu right’ is largely a ploy to discredit the Hindu movement as backward and prevent people from really examining it. The truth is that the Hindu movement is a revival of a native spiritual tradition that has nothing to do with the political right-wing of any western country. Its ideas are spiritually evolutionary, not politically regressive.It’s a provocative and thought-provoking article, and it does undercut the fact that Western-inspired leftists generally tend to side with whoever they perceive as the “victims” or as the “minorities” without looking into the truth-value of the philosophies or worldviews of th
November 30, 2007 For another side to the issues covered in David Frawley’s article that I linked to in the previous post, read Whatever Happened to the Hindu Left? by Ruth Vanita at the Infinity Foundation website. Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specializes in lesbian and gay studies, gender studies, and British and South Asian literary history. One of the focuses of her academic work is deconstructing the somewhat Gandhian stereotype that India has gone back and forth between arranged heterosexual marriages and ascetic celibacy. I quote from her article below:Here, the position of Muslim, Christian and Sikh leftists is somewhat different. Because these happen to be minorities in India, the left has to support their rights, hence there is somewhat less embarrassment attached to acknowledging these identities as a modern Indian leftist. Secondly, they do not have to carry the burden of being called backward polytheistic idol-worshipers. Secular feminist or
25 November 2007 (The Nation) - Anyone who’s visited Angkor will know that the architecture of the famous jungle buildings are remains of ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples. Angkor Wat, for...
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Members of Malaysia's Indian community have protested on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, the capital. They are demanding equal rights in a country they believe discriminates against them.They are also said to place blame on the colonial policies of Britain, and were intending to deliver a petition to the British High Commission in Malaysia. Check out the video report taken from Al Jazeera and also photos from the demonstration here.
The Curse of Kehama ( 1810)He was the almighty rajah of Earth, and allpowerful in Swerga or Heaven. After a long tyranny, he went to Pandalon (Hell) to claim domination there also. He demanded why the throne of Yamen was supported by only three persons, and was told that he himself must be the fourth. When Kehama drank the amreeta, or draught of immortality, which he thought would bring eternal happiness, he drank immortal death, and was forced to bend his proud neck beneath the throne of Yamen, to become the fourth supporter. LADURLAD was the person subjected to the "curse of Kehama."
Indonesian religious conceptions. The question must be asked, however, to what extent such religious ideas were comprehensible to those who first heard them. Indonesians, who had been accustomed to constructing terraced mountainlike temples--symbolizing holy mountains--for the burial and worship of the dead, would not have been perplexed by the Brahmans' doctrine that Shiva also dwelt on a holy mountain. Natural stones, already placed on mountain terraces for the ritual of megalithic worship, would have been easily identified with Shiva's natural stone lingam, the most prestigious of all lingams. Indonesians, who were already concerned with the passage rites and welfare of the dead, and who considered the elaborate rituals of
Hindu religious conceptions. The cultural effects of these commercial exchanges, usually described as "Hinduization," have been discussed for many years. It is now held that Hinduism was brought to Indonesia not by traders, as was formerly thought, but by Brahmans who taught the Shaivite message of personal immortality. Sanskrit inscriptions, attributed to the 5th and 6th centuries, have been found in eastern Kalimantan, a considerable distance from the international trade route, and also in western Java. They reveal that Indian literati, or their Indonesian disciples, were honoured in some royal courts. The rulers were prominent rakas, heads of groups of villages in areas where irrigation and other needs had brought i
It may one day be shown by students of prehistory that Indonesians were sailing to other parts of Asia long ago. Records of foreign trade, however, begin only in the early centuries AD. A study of the Roman historian Pliny the Elder's Natural History suggests that, in the 1st century AD, Indonesian outriggers were engaged in trade with the east coast of Africa. Indonesian settlements may have existed at that time in Madagascar, an island with distinct Indonesian cultural traits. The geographer Ptolemy, in the following century, incorporated information from Indian merchants in his Guide to Geography concerning "Iabadiou," presumably referring to Java, and "Malaiou," which, with its variants, may refer to Malayu in sout
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Day 29 for 11th October, coinciding with Ramadan 2007 / 1428
The vast majority of Muslims in India are Sunnis who have been influenced over the generations by Hindu religion and culture. In one area of India, two leading Muslim missionaries were Khunmir Hussaini (1520) and Syed Hussaini (1568). It is believed that both came with zealous preaching and the power to heal the sick, thus many Hindus readily converted to Islam. Devotion to these Muslim saints continues to this day.
Yet many Muslims live in congested areas where the city infrastructure is of poor quality. But God is at work. Many genuine believers in India have been praying for the Muslim community. Some are fearful of Muslims as well, caught up in the historical Indian prejudices between the varying religious communities. Some areas have a reputation for communal tensions between the Hindu communities and the more volatile Muslim population.
Prayer points for Muslims in India
* May God send labourers into the streets, alley
28 September 2007 (Vietnam Net Bridge) - A Buddhist and a Hindu statue, both from different dates, have been excavated from the Dong Nai province in Vietnam.
Ancient stone statues discovered in Dong Nai
Two ancient stone statues which are believed to date back to between the 6th-12th centuries have been unearthed in Bien Hoa City in southern Dong Nai Province.
The first undamaged sandstone statue was identified as a Avalokitesvara piece, 70.2cm high and carved in a standing position.
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It's wrong to call this as Hindu Fatwa. Barbaric things like Fatwas and Jihads (holy wars) are not there in Hinduism. Show me a single instance of Fatwa in the last thousand years in Hindu religion where a Fatwa was issued and executed. Please save them for other religions like Islam and Christianity who are it's patent holders.
Indian Hindu Wedding Traditions
The Indian culture celebrates marriage as a sacrament (Sanskara), a rite enabling two individuals to start their journey in life together. In a Hindu wedding, the multiplicity of creation becomes possible when spirit (Purush) unites with matter (Prakritti). The Hindu wedding lays emphasis on three essential values: happiness, harmony, and growth.
All Hindu [...]
I am glad that I have been able to make it back to Mumbai in time for the Ganesh Utsava this year which falls on 15th September. It's that time of the year when beautifully decorated Mandals (temporary temples typically made using bamboo, cloth, wood, plastic etc etc) spring up on every nook & corner of Mumbai. Although they are currently occupied by men who smoke, drink & gamble away the night in there right now! For those who do not know, on 15th, Lord Ganesha's statues will be installed inside them and for 9,7,5 or 3 days and then there will be regular prayers & ceremonies inside the Mandal. Even the statues are different for different mandals, they may chose to install any of the eight incarnations of Lord Ganesha.The worship of Lord Ganesha is necessary for any practising Hindu before they begin prayers, important undertakings, and religious ceremonies. Most scriptures describe Lord Ganesha as vignakarta (Obstacle-creator) & vignaharta (Obstacle-destroyer) at the same time.
The Hindu religion shows the way to lead the life successfully. Needless to say, for anybody’s success wealth is important. The Goddess Mahalakshmi is being worshipped as the promoter of prosperity by Hindus. Mahalakshmi means the great source of the best in life. It also means worshipful and engrossed in appearance
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Voici une autre technique, très simple, qui vous permettra de connaître mieux les cartes. De plus, cette technique peut servir à un tour de mentalisme(deviner la carte). Il est fort probable que certains d'entre vous l'a connaisse, pour ceux qui débutent vous allez accepter volontier cette technique! Voici la coupe hindou. N.B.: Vous pouvez également effectuer cette coupe pour une carte sur le dessus du paquet. Vous n'avez qu'à effectuer la coupe en prenant un paquet vers le dessous et le deposer sur le dessus du paquet restant tout en gardant une minime espace. Ainsi, à force de faire des mini coupes, vous allez arriver à la carte de départ et vous allez le savoir! Placez vous dans un angle afin d'être sur que personne ne va voir l'espace en question, ce qui n'est pas très difficile lorsque vous êtes habituer étant donné la vitesse à laquelle la coupe est effectuée.Que pensez-vous de la coupe hindou?Laisser moi savoir vos commentaires!
Corndog Trailer arrived in grand fashion at the Haye's, Kansas Cultural Arts Center for our most recent gig. By "grand fashion" I am refering to the massive backfire our Pinto cut loose with as we pulled into the parking lot, sending a couple of WWII vets into flashback to D-Day mode. I can't help but find octegenarians yelling "Incoming" and creeping through bushes amusing, but Z, bless her heart, ran over to help calm them down. Damn, girls got a shake that measures on the Richter scale. I filmed the old man after Zanna got him an ice-cream to sooth him.We were in Hayes due to an invitation to sling corndogs at the Hindu Indian National Dialogue Of Native Traditions. India Indians. Dots, not feathers.Things started out roughly, due to a translation problem with the word "corndog". We wer
To visit temples in Bali, there are few rules you need to know. One very common rule is that you need to wear sarong when entering the temple. There are other rules to bear in mind so you can easily enter the temple without any doubt or fear offending the locals. This is also to make sure you will not spoil your holiday in Bali.Here are the list of rules for entering temples in Bali, (some may sound funny to you).Wear sarong. Some temples, especially those that have lots of visitors, provide sarongs at the entrance. You can put it on before entering the temple. Why sarong? Sarong is meant to cover the "unholy" part of our body, especially under the waist part. (Note: most of the temples in Bali do not provide sarongs, so it could be handy to have it if temple is in your tour itinerary.)Dress properly or decently. This is self explanatory, so, I am not going to dig on that.Ladies in period are not allowed to enter the temple.People whose relatives recently passed away and still conduct
There are those who feel it defiles the whole concept of religion when the clergy of various sects offer opening prayers in the U.S. Senate. Of course there are others who argue that religion is needed in that place more than anywhere else.But, what is not needed is a bunch of Hindu swami crap. And fortunately , though they failed to stop the outrage this time, American's very own Taliban was there to confront Satan's representative head on.Last week the Senate invited Rajan Zedis a Hindu chaplain from Reno, to deliver the opening prayer in the U.S. Senate . I'm not surprised this missionary of darkness heralds from the state which kept the tradition of American Sin kicking through the 1950's.Fortunately the good people at American Family Action got wind of the coming debauchery and filled us all in.America was urged to send e-mails to their senators asking that the invitation be nixed.David Barton, one of AFA's holy men, warned it was anticipated the prayer would
Hinduism is the religion of billions of people, including a vast quantity that reside in America. Every day prayers to “Our father in Heaven”, and “Our Lord Jesus Christ” are spouted off at government functions from all corners of the country. (Except San Francisco, where prayers are made to whichever drag queens are sober enough to represent their districts at 8am.)
In a rare occasion Hindu chaplain Rajan Zed offered a traditional Hindu prayer for the Senate today, and was immediately heckled and screamed at by a group of “Christian activists.” (Whatever the hell that means.)
If this doesn’t make you embarrassed to be a Christian then you obviously haven’t removed your head from the sand. Loving, peaceful, true in spirit my ass. How about nasty, crass, self righteous and bigoted. I don’t label myself with any religion, but in viewing this I’m sad and embarrassed for myself and my country.
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Here's how to throw away an enormous heap of money on absolutely nothing:
A devotee on Tuesday offered seven gifts, totalling Rs 1.5 crore, to the presiding deity at the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) temple, the richest Hindu shrine in the world.
Consulting the always unreliable Wikipedia, we find that an Indian crore is a numbering unit equal to ten million.
Balbir Singh Uppal, a Chandigarh-based industrialist and the CMD of Lakshmi Energy and Foods, donated the items to the deputy executive officer of the temple, G Balaramaiah. Uppal, who had gone for a darshan, handed over the gifts in the morning, apparently in fulfillment of a vow he had made earlier to Lord Venkateswaram, the presiding deity.
Presiding? I would like to know, exactly how is this deity "presiding" in the temple?
The seven-piece ensemble comprised a sankanidhi, padmanidhi and eka harathi, two nakshatra harathis and a sankham — each made of gold — and a dhoopa harathi.
This would have been so
Khir Bhawani (Ganderbal), June 23 (IANS) As thousands of migrant Kashmiri pandits Saturday arrived here to pay obeisance at a shrine, Muslims came out to welcome them in what looked like the return of old times.
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INDIA - A mob of Hindu extremists beat a pastor and tried to set him on fire before parading him naked in the suburbs of Bangalore, capital of Karnataka state.
Laxmi Narayan Gowda, an independent pastor and representative of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), was recovering in a hospital at press time with swelling [...]
Prambanan, another UNESCO World Heritage site in Central Java, is the largest Hindu temple compound in Indonesia. To get to Prambanan from Borobudur, I had to take a bus to the main bus terminal of Yogya, the Umbulharjo Bus Terminal, and transfer to a Solo-bound bus, getting off at the gates of the temple. I spent Rp3,000 for the trip to Prambanan from Yogya. You could easily finish the park in half a day which is composed of the main temple, Candi Rara Jonggrang (which is what most refer to when they say Prambanan), and three others namely Candi Lumbung, Candi Bubrah and Candi Sewu.There are 224 temples in the Prambanan complex, which is named after the village where it is located. Three are main temples namely Brahma Temple in the north, Vishnu Temple in the south, and the biggest among the three which lies between Brahma and Vishnu temples, is the 47-meter high Shiva Temple.Characterized by tall and pointed architecture typical of Hindu temples, the main temple incurred significant
Prambanan, another UNESCO World Heritage site in Central Java, is the largest Hindu temple compound in Indonesia. To get to Prambanan from Borobudur, I had to take a bus to the main bus terminal of Yogya, the Umbulharjo Bus Terminal, and transfer to a Solo-bound bus, getting off at the gates of the temple. I spent Rp3,000 for the trip to Prambanan from Yogya. You could easily finish the park in half a day which is composed of the main temple, Candi Rara Jonggrang (which is what most refer to when they say Prambanan), and three others namely Candi Lumbung, Candi Bubrah and Candi Sewu.There are 224 temples in the Prambanan complex, which is named after the village where it is located. Three are main temples namely Brahma Temple in the north, Vishnu Temple in the south, and the biggest among the three which lies between Brahma and Vishnu temples, is the 47-meter high Shiva Temple.Characterized by tall and pointed architecture typical of Hindu temples, the main temple incurred significant
London, May 10 (IANS) Lauding Britain’s high-achieving Hindu community, London Mayor Ken Livingstone has said that he was proud that a large proportion of the community had chosen London as their home.
Livingstone said that he would soon host a reception for young Hindu professionals to mark the contribution of the community to life in the [...]
- A Hindu devotee prays after taking holy dip in River Ganges in Allahabad, India, Monday, March 19, 2007. Thousands of Hindus took dips in Holy rivers Monday on the occasion of partial solar eclipse, which coincided with the beginning of Hindu festival Chaitra Navratra.
NEW DELHI, April 25 (Compass Direct News) – Hindu extremists in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh have brought the incidence of Christian persecution to an unprecedented high, including a slander campaign against the state’s chief minister, Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, a Christian.
Sam Paul, public affairs secretary of the All India Christian Council, said at least one anti-Christian incident
Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, one of Bollywood's best-known screen couples, married on Friday in a traditional Hindu wedding in which the groom rode a white horse before the pair took their vows around a sacred fire.
The ceremonies concluded three days of celebrations at the actors' homes in Mumbai, creating, what industry pundits said is, Bollywood's ultimate power couple.
Rai, 33,
Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, one of Bollywood's best-known screen couples, married on Friday in a traditional Hindu wedding in which the groom rode a white horse before the pair took their vows around a sacred fire.
The ceremonies concluded three days of celebrations at the actors' homes in Mumbai, creating, what industry pundits said is, Bollywood's ultimate power couple.
Rai, 33,
— Martin JohnstonThe New Zealand Herald20 Apr 2007Mosques and Indian temples are expected to become more familiar sights as the increasing numbers of Muslim and Hindu immigrants seek to express their cultural roots.
While the numbers of people who stated they were Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs in the latest Census remained small compared with the country’s main Christian denominations, they have
Bhopal, April 13 (IANS) Right-wing organisations like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal have called for a strike here Saturday to protest against a court order that upheld a Muslim boy’s marriage to a Hindu girl.
A committee - the Hindu Kanya Raksha Samiti (Hindu girls’ protection committee) - was also set up to “save” girls of the community.
“The committee has been constituted to ensure that Hindu girls are not lured away by youth of other religions,” said Manoj Pradhan, the committee’s convenor.
Priyanka Wadhwani, a 21-year-old Sindhi girl, had eloped with Mohammed Omar, a 22-year-old boy from Bhopal, last week. They got married in Mumbai on April 5 after Omar converted to Hinduism and changed his name to Umesh.
But this was not acceptable to the girl’s parents or the Sindhi community here. While the parents lodged a case of abduction against Omar, the community voiced its object
It is useful to examine Hindu attitudes to women to understand Hindu culture and society. Mainstream scripture in India stipulates similar societal status to household animals and women. Additionally, through the centuries, as this land was colonized and subjugated by all and sundry, the subtended aspirations of the Hindu male translated to the normalization of domestic abuse. Where in other cultures sex signified the consummation of a relationship, in India a bashing came to represent the same. Common across socio-economic classes it is the basis for the particularly vicious nature of the Indian female whose abuse induced low self-esteem translates to obscure menace unique to this land, culture and society. The following report by Geeta Pandey gives some illustrative details:Domestic violence is particularly acute in South Asia where traditionally women have been treated as the inferior sex. Talk of domestic violence usually conjures up images of poor, illiterate women, unaware of t
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As a Valentine’s Day card smoldered, more than 100 members of the Hindu extremist group Shiv Sena chanted “Death to Valentine’s Day” and “People who celebrate Valentine’s Day should be pelted with shoes!”
Valentine’s Day has in the past two decades made strong inroads in India as the country has slowly [...]
Many 8th century historical relics from Hindu temples in Central Java have been lost, and are believed to be in the hands of private antique collectors.Villager Sukirman, a native of Sidomulyo village in Central Java's Semarang regency, said that during the 1980s many people came to the area to buy temple ruins or carved stones from residents."We didn't know why they bought them. They only said the objects would be handed over to the museum," said Sukirman, 68.
By Sister Nûr
This article was written by the author a few years ago, when she was in her second year at the University of Essex.
I came from a purely Hindu family where we were always taught to regard ourselves (i.e. women) as beings who were eventually to be married off and have children and serve the husband-- whether he was kind or not. Other than this I found that there were a lot of things which really oppressed women, such as:
*If a woman was widowed, she would always have to wear a white sari (costume), eat vegetarian meals, cut her hair short, and never re-marry.*The bride always had to pay the dowry (bridal money) to the husband's family.*And the husband could ask for anything, irrespective of whether the bride would have difficulty giving it.Not only that, if after marriage she was not able to pay the full dowry she would be both emotionally and physically tortured, and could end up being a victim of "kitchen death" where the husband, or both the mother-in-law and t
Bollywood, India’s thriving Hindi movie industry, and Hindu gods are the flavour of a German toy fair that opened here Thursday.
“Bollywood is also a big topic here, especially among our adult customers,” said Bettina Brogsitter, sales representative for the Munich maker Lupu, referring to the growing popularity in the West of romantic films made by [...]
