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Blackpool welcomed performers from the Indian Cultural Festival on the Comedy Carpet in front of Blackpool Tower on Sunday, ...
The tweet was viewed more than 400,000 times as the furor spread across Indian social media, boosted by Hindu nationalist commentators like Rajiv Malhotra, who has more than 300,000 Twitter followers.
Indian history stretches back 4,500 years to the Indus Valley civilization centered on the banks of the Indus River in northern India. Hindu culture began around 1500 BC, with the arrival of the ...
Scorn for Mughal rulers, who are not ancestors of Indian Muslims and only shared a similar faith, is distinctive to India’s Hindu nationalists, who claim Mughals destroyed Hindu culture. It has ...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's turn now to India, where Hindu nationalists are being blamed for igniting a culture war. They're accused of using vigilante violence and intimidation to promote a Hindu ...
In a landmark decision in 1995, the Supreme Court of India defined both “Hinduism” and “Hindutva” ... Not everything within Hindu culture converges with the beliefs of Christian Hindus.
On a dimly lit wooden stage in the Fred Fox School of Music, University of Florida professor Vasudha Narayanan spoke about Hindu culture in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and America on Tuesday ...
An exhibition of photographs at the Indian Institute of World Culture highlights a period in world affairs that has all but faded from memory ...
Modi’s subsurface devotions were part of a decade-long project to portray the Mahabharata as the true history of India — and an attempt, many Indians say, to boost ancient Hindu culture as a ...
They argue that Muslim rulers like Aurangzeb destroyed Hindu culture, forced religious conversions, desecrated temples and imposed harsh taxes on non-Muslims, even though some historians say such ...
Hindu society committee member Sonali Joshi, 42, said the festival is a way to allow Corpus Christi residents to experience Indian traditions, culture and dance. “It’s open to anybody and ...
While Hinduism is India's majority religion (almost 80 percent of Indians are Hindu), Hindu nationalism is political.It's the idea that Hindu faith and culture should help shape the state and its ...