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7 – Temples, Elephants and Traditions – B.R. Haran

While animal rights activists and animal welfare organizations are demanding the removal of elephants from temples as they are not well maintained and subjected to utmost cruelty, a section of devotees, traditionalists and temple devaswoms opine that removal of elephants from temples is against tradition, as elephants are used in various temple rituals. They allege […]

The war against Hindu culture – David Frawley

Western monoculture breaks up traditional families, social systems, and accounts of history, imposing its view alone as liberal, rational, scientific and humanistic. – Dr David Frawley Hinduism has the oldest, most profound and many-sided culture in the world. This vast Hindu culture is rooted in the village customs of the common people and extends to […]

The crisis of the US political system – Come Carpentier

A vast library exists about the legal breaches and crimes the [United States] has committed against both foreign nations and its own people, even though a mighty control system has kept many egregious offences from being publicly acknowledged and punished…. –  Come Carpentier de Gourdon In the 2015 film Bridge Of Spies set in the […]

Supreme Court Collegium: Judicial oligarchy crumbles – Sandhya Jain

Media reports hint that the Centre is reluctant to clear the suggested [judicial] appointments as those being recommended are related to judges or politicians. Since Justice Chelameswar has revolted against the system by which such selections were made, the panel of 250 nominees must be scrapped immediately. A fresh selection must be made with Government […]

Muslim personal law in India is retrogressive – N.D. Nalapat

According to Nehruvian secularism, the “majority” can do no right and the “minority” no wrong. Hence, when laws designed to bring some of the traditional practices of those professing Hinduism into the 20th century, any effort at ensuring a similar modernising exercise on the Muslim community was discarded. … Such forbearance, which Nehru thought would […]

Kolkata will take a century to recover from Mother Teresa – Aroup Chatterjee

My own wish would be to reclaim Kolkata from Teresa—to sever the automatic connection of the two names as the whole wide world sees it. Kolkata’s image under the yoke of Mother Teresa will take a century to recover. In the last 50 years, the city has lost an unimaginable amount from the loss of […]

6 – Temples, Elephants and Traditions – B.R. Haran

The animal welfare activists and organisations … have started demanding the removal of elephants from temples altogether. However, the temple authorities, devaswoms and followers of traditions have opposed this, saying it would be against the centuries old religious tradition and temple culture. … Hence, a fair and equitable solution has to be taken by the stakeholders, […]

When will Velankanni’s true history be known? – Dev

Our Lady of Good Health at Velankanni, Tamil Nadu : The Portuguese-style idol is dressed in an Indian Tamil-style sari and kept in a glass box high above the church hall. Vēḷāṅkaṇṇi is a Christian pilgrimage site—that is what most of us have been led to believe. We may however be surprised to learn about […]

Hindu Dharma needs to spread – Maria Wirth

Many Christians turned atheists because they lost faith in “God”, but didn’t realize that there is a very different perspective of “God” possible which makes far more sense than atheism—the perspective of the Indian rishis. – Maria Wirth Intellectual integrity and truth are obviously unwanted in our times. These have been displaced by political correctness. […]

How Mother Teresa became a saint – Christopher Hitchens

“Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women. … She was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money […]