Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti said her party does not "hold patents" on Lord Ram, Hanuman or the Hindu religion and anybody can have faith in them, but "our faith is beyond political gains".
D K Shivakumar, Karnataka Congress unit president, called the BJP's Hinduism a "drama," contending that his Hinduism is superior to the BJP's.
In spite of the district administration's ban on gatherings and demonstrations at the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Idgah complex in Mathura, the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha has requested permission to perform Laddu Gopal's...
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said hostility towards others was not the Hindu way and pointed out that his favourite Hindu icon Swami Vivekananda's Hinduism was all-inclusive.
Two crucial dates related to Ambedkar, the leader who launched a major assault on Hinduism, are ironically linked with grand Hindutva events
The claims of Hindus and Christians on the Adivasis in Gujarat correctly perceive the importance of the 'tribal vote' but end up ignoring the stark realities of tribal life and identity.
In Khurja, 100 people from 20 families adopted Hinduism on Sunday, a BJP MLA said.
Tribes, which used to practice indigenous animist religions of Heraka, and Zeliangrong in states like Nagaland and those, who used to practice Dony-Polo, Amik Matai, and Rangfrah in Arunachal Pradesh, became minority...
The case of alleged forced religious conversion in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly comes weeks after nine people were booked in a similar case in Meerut.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been its volunteer, the Sangh does not control...
Pro-Hindu activists protested in a local school in Karnataka's Udupi district after students staged a performance singing Azan (Muslim prayer songs) and...
Officials in Maharashtra have ordered that the letters 'La' and 'Sha' in the Marathi language will be written in the Devanagri script in a particular way,...
Important portions of the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana are selectively taught in Sanskrit at Academy of Sharia and Advanced Studies in...
Political parties, barring no exceptions, have taken upon themselves to forsake secularism for electoral gains
Karnataka Congress leader Satish Jarkiholi said 'Hindu' is of Persian origin and its real meaning is 'very dirty' which would make people 'ashamed'.
Karnataka Congress leader Satish Jarkiholi said the real meaning of word 'Hindu' would make people very ashamed.
Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader Sudhir Suri was shot dead in Punjab's Amritsar on Friday. He died from gunshot wounds.
'In recent years there has been a shift to identify as Hindus and an awareness of their history there is a sense of civilization crisis that is showing among...
Was Rajaraja, the imperial Chola king, now better known as Ponniyin Selvan, thanks to Mani Ratnam’s grand film, a Hindu?
We forget that Shiva is present in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, crushing the arrogance of Ravan and humbling the privileged Arjun. This cannot be...
Ganeshwar, a PhD scholar with the Hyderabad University, tells us why Hindu nationalists will find it difficult to construct Shiva as the face of their...
For Y. S. Alone, the idea of Shiva as the God of Dalits and Adivasis is a misnomer, as they neither have any special spaces of worship nor are they part of...
According to scholars, the Lingayats are followers of Shiva in the form of Basava and reject practices like caste and gender discrimination, unlike the...
Shiva resonates at various levels among underprivileged communities in God’s Own Country, writes Keli Ramachandran
Academic and curator Alka Pande looks into the phenomenon and wonders who is Shiva? Is he a God? Is he a concept? Is he truth? Is he a representation of the...
