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Hindutva’s Television swami offers a cure for all ills
Yoga evangelist has millions in his thrall, but critics claim devotees are being duped
At 5am beneath the Shivalik hills in northern India, Swami Ramdev sits cross-legged swaddled in saffron robes commanding the rapt attention of 500 devotees of his brand of yoga. The crowd is made up mostly of middle-class Indians, many suffering from chronic [...]
Monkey Gods married in Orissa Hindu Temple
Thousands of villagers attended the marriage
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Some 3,000 villagers have attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony in eastern India for two monkeys. The “bride” was dressed in a five-metre long sari and decked in flowers. The ceremony took place last Thursday in Ghanteswara village in Orissa state.
The [...]
UK Asian channel rapped for Ganesh pendant ad
Wednesday, 20 February , 2008,
London: A prominent Asian television channel has been rapped by Britain’s advertising watchdog for airing an advertisement about a Hindu religious pendant on the ground that it encouraged “occultism”.
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has directed the Leicester-based MATV channel not to show the advertisement of a “Ganesh Rudraksh” pendant again in [...]
Unemployed to Sterilize Hanuman Monkeys in India
By GAVIN RABINOWITZ –
NEW DELHI (AP) — A northern Indian state said Thursday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation from conservationists, who said the plan was unscientific and would likely worsen the problem.
Indian authorities have struggled [...]
Six killed in Hindu temple stampede in southern India
January 03, 2008, Reuters,
Six worshippers were crushed to death and a dozen injured in southern India as thousands of devotees rushed to offer prayers at a Hindu temple during a religious ceremony.
The stampede occurred when tens of thousands of people pressed forward towards a hilltop temple in the town of Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh state, [...]
Hindutva’s ‘Giant Mahabharatha skeleton Found’ story is a hoax
Washington, Dec.15 (ANI): A report that suggested that a National Geographic Society team had dug up a giant human skeleton in India, in collaboration with the Indian Army, and linked it to events related to the mythological epic Mahabharatha, has been exposed as a hoax.
“Recent exploration activity in the northern region of India uncovered skeletal [...]
Snakes have devine power in Hinduism, it kills 50,000 Indians each year
Snakes on a Plain: Living With Cobras Outside Calcutta
Bites Are a Problem Priests
Can’t Always Deal With;
Malati Dhara Sees a Doctor
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV
November 26, 2007 WSJ
MUSHARI, India — A five-foot monocled cobra slithered through a throng of barefoot children one afternoon recently. Not even the toddlers recoiled in fear.
“We sleep with the snakes, we eat with [...]
Hindu priest kills himself promising to come back to life
Mon, 24 Dec 2007
New Delhi – A young Hindu priest in central India has killed himself with the promise of regaining consciousness within three days of his death, a news report said Monday. Crowds milled around a temple in Chhattisgarh state’s industrial town of Raigarh where the body of the 25-year-old priest was kept by [...]
British Hindus divided by caste: BBC report
Naresh Puri
A leading British Asian organisation is warning that men, women and children are being abused, attacked and spat at, because they are low caste Hindus regarded as impure and untouchable.
They are the victims of the 2,000-year-old Indian caste system which activists say is flourishing on the streets of Britain, even though it is banned [...]
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