After acting in a Westerner-discovers-Eastern-peace movie, Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts the famous Hollywood actress is now a practicing Hindu. Eat, Pray, Love is a book by Liz Gilbert of her quest for peace and spirituality which takes her from the USA to Italy, India and Bali (Indonesia). Her...
Kancha Ilaiah is a joker – he appears to be a hate-monger in the garbs of an intellectual. Just reading the titles of his two books is evidence enough against his intellectual prowess. One of his books’ title: Why I am not a Hindu. Another of his books’ title:...
Wow..that makes for one very sad headline. And what is she doing to the elephant? Tickling its nostril? (Image source.) Jokes aside, apparently it’s not just extremely disrespectful to confine an elephant, ruin its life and terrorize it into “blessing” people, but they can also contract tuberculosis from humans...
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is a movie based on the game of the same title. It is littered with Hindu imagery and statues of Ganesha in the background of many scenes. The Persian army invades Alamut on suspicions of the latter harbouring weapons to be used against...
The grand Meenakshi Amman temple forms the heart of the bustling southern city, Madurai. About 10 minutes walk from the railway station down dusty streets, the gopurams (towers) of this temple stand tall and proud having withstood centuries. The temple is an enormous complex of granite popular with locals...
Girls wearing jeans or mini skirts, girls smoking and drinking, Valentine’s day, girls talking to guys have all been of late victims of a growing moral police in India. This self-styled Indian Taliban claim their origins in Hindu culture such as Bajrang Dal and Sri Ram Sena. Their ludicrous...
Being the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, it is rather irresponsible of Karunanidhi to criticize only Hindus in the name of secularism. He has done it before. This time, he says that Hindus shouldn’t wear tilak or that the sacred thread of Brahmins is unnecessary. And his rationale is...
The religious right in India is fondly called the Sangh Parivar or Hindu fundamentalists by the media and increasingly by the common man. This Parivar or family consists of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad), Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and bits of the BJP (Bharatiya...
With Christian missionaries invading India in hordes and converting Indians by deceitful and shameful means, tensions with the majority Hindu population were only waiting to happen. The trigger was the cowardly murder of four swamis in a Hindu ashram in Orissa this week. Understandably, all the pent-up anger against...
I’ve previously argued advocating absolute freedom of expression in art. But when religious imagery is used to convey a social message, responsibility is important to achieve the ends desired. If a particular religion’s imagery is used positively, the social message will at least reach the followers of that religion....
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