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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Why Hindu Women Wear Bindi?
The below blog post explains
some of the reasons why Hindu women wear Bindi and why it is important. Bindi
is a beautiful contribution of Hindu culture to the world.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Monday, December 29, 2014
People Reconvert to Hinduism in large numbers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
Over 8000 people in
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have reconverted to Hinduism during last 6 months.
In Hyderabad the figure is more than 1200. (Source: Deccan Chronicle news with URL below). This is part of VHP's 'Ghar Wapsi'
initiative where people converted out of Hinduism in different pretexts are
brought back to the religion of their birth and forefathers.
As more people return
to their original faith, it is also getting clear that the reason for their
conversion into other religions have been superstition and other hazy reasons.
For example in this Deccan Chronicle report, a man who converted out of
Hinduism to Christianity said that he converted when his son was very ill and a
Christian pastor came to hospital and prayed for his son's health and asked him
and his family to do so. But religious conversion could only be fictitiously
linked to his son's survival for a few months as his son died afterwards
leaving the man and family wondering about their decision to convert in order
to ensure health of his son. When VHP members reached out to him, he expressed
his willingness to return to the religion of his birth.
You can read more about
this news here: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141228/nation-current-affairs/article/ghar-wapsi-boom-telangana-state-andhra-pradesh
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Animal Slaughter in the name of Religion?
I went to Twitter and
found a trending protest: against thousands of animals being
sacrificed/slaughtered "by Hindus" in Nepal at an annual festival.
Some journos were trying to debate it with all and sundry; I wondered what was
there to debate when you knew the result - a declaration that
"Hindus" were wrong in "killing" animals in the "name
of religion" (just see the number and title of news in the image).
Fine.
Then I came to Facebook and found a trending event: people posting pictures of
variety of dishes made from "sacrificed/slaughtered/killed" turkeys
"by proud people" in the Western world.
I wonder why no debates if
humans are wrong in killing animals and birds in the name of "Thanksgiving
festival"? Stats tell that more than 45 million of turkeys are killed
every year on Thanksgiving day alone (which fell on 27th Nov this year)! So I
wondered if it was because turkey-killers were from rich Western countries and
hence could get away with killing 45 million animals while Hindus from poor
countries will be declared savage for killing some thousand of animals? Why this
hypocrisy?
Then I remembered Bakri-Id; data tells the number of animals killed
on that day runs in Billions - and I guess mostly in poor countries including
India! So it should not be rich country Vs poor country thing!
It seems since
Hindus are most tolerant and historically have gone through many social
reforms, it is easier to target only Hindus for doing something which even many
other religions do. I guess most protesters don't have guts to target other
communities for fear of retaliation.
Anyways, I think all such protests which
inflate any small defect in Hindus to the sky will only benefit Hinduism in the
long term...
Monday, October 13, 2014
International edition of Encyclopedia of Hinduism
International edition of Encyclopedia of Hinduism
by India Heritage Research Foundation was released in New Delhi on 10 October
2014 by the hands of Hamid Ansari, Vice-President of India.
The encyclopedia consists of 11-volumes and approximately 7000 entries and is a project of India Heritage Research Foundation guided by Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, president of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh.
Speaking at the occasion RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that "dharam" (religion) does not divide people but unites them. He also spoke about the importance of knowing true facts about Hinduism.
Detailed news:
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Lord Shiva statue in Louvre Abu Dhabi
Louvre Abu Dhabi
(LAD), which is an upcoming $630 million museum is reported to have Dancing
Shiva statue in its permanent collection.
The status is a tenth
century lost-wax bronze one from Tamil Nadu, India of Chola period. A video
posted on the LAD website explains the meaning behind various parts of the
statue. It is considered a superb example of Indian Chola-period bronze casting
and represents the Hindu deity Shiva in an iconographic form known as Nataraja,
or Lord of the Dance.
Courtesy and detailed news reference: http://www.eturbonews.com/51367/hindus-welcome-lord-shiva-statue-prestigious-louvre-abu-dhabi
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