Mississippi: Pop singer Britney Spears has revealed that she has become a Catholic. In an Instagram post, the 39-year-old told her more than 32 million followers she has become a Catholic by captioning a video of her dancing in a blue dress. She said: “Pssss as for the next video…IContinue Reading
Author: Joseph Vellaringatt, SJ Media House, Delhi INR 320 The book ‘An Introduction to Hinduism’ is primarily addressed to Christians. But people belonging to other religions also can draw much profit from it. The purpose of writing this book is to free the followers of other religions, especially Christians, fromContinue Reading
Ram Puniyani The politics of communal polarization in is focusing on many identity issues, one being the Love Jihad, where the Hindu girl married to a Muslim or Christian man is targeted, and is legally manipulated in a manner to ensure that she is forced to be sent to herContinue Reading
Ramesh Venkataraman This year marks the 1,000th birth anniversary of Ramanuja, the great Vaishnava theologian who reinvented and revitalised Hinduism, and the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s triggering of the Protestant Reformation which fundamentally reshaped Christianity. Both events are a salutary reminder in these troubled times of how religions canContinue Reading
By Rukmini Callimachi Pindwara — Just off of India’s National Highway, in the middle of a desert so bald and sun-bleached that even shadows seem to dry up, the largest Hindu temple in North America is taking shape. A continent away from the temple’s eventual home along Route 59 inContinue Reading
The 1995 judgment defined Hindutva or Hinduism as a “way of life” and nothing to do with “narrow fundamentalist Hindu religious bigotry”.Continue Reading
‘When Nawazuddin Siddiqui — one of India’s finest actors — was told not to perform in a Ramleela, I realised how much Hinduism has been hijacked by Hindutva forces in the last 30 years,’ says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
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Lucknow — After several months, Uttar Pradesh had the first instance of “ghar vapsi” when saffron outfits in Gorakhpur re-converted nearly 100 Dalits from Christianity to Hinduism. Reports said members of Hindu Yuva Vahini, the outfit belonging to Gorakhpur BJP MP Mahant Adityanath, held a special ceremony at the DalitContinue Reading