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Prince of Persia: Hindu imagery – Sands of time or Pillar of fire

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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...

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A new Hindu encyclopedia – Hindupedia

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It is wonderful to hear of the relaunch of Hindupedia, the Hindu encyclopedia already populated with many extensive articles on various aspects of Hinduism about the various philosophies, saints, Gods/Goddesses and festivals. They promise to provide all points of view on contentious issues, especially because we have many of...

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All new hi Hindu – Swagatam [OBSOLETE]

The previous entry was very long back – when Hindu blog which was a subsidiary of Indiblog. It later moved to its own site Hindupedia. This move entailed a shift from using WordPress as the publishing platform to Drupal, which is a lot more comprehensive coming with many features...

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Merged with Hindupedia.com [evolution of website: OBSOLETE]

Dear friends – Namaste I wish to share a great and happy news with you all – Hindu blog has merged with Hindupedia! All the posts and most of the discussions have been transferred to Hindupedia.com You will discover that Hindupedia is a much more comprehensive website for Hinduism...

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British attributed Indian crimes to Hinduism

The British invaders of India were an extremely prejudiced lot when it came to India’s culture, religion and people. Consequently, they were not very fond of Hinduism, and wrote highly objectionable stuff on the topic. When they noticed that Indian criminals were as religious as the common people, they...

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