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Virat Kohli gives anti-cracker sermon on Diwali, what about your 5-star lifestyle ask netizens
Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli issued a short Diwali 'greeting' video wherein, like many page-3 celebrities, he was found stressing on the 'do...
How to celebrate a secular, sanitised Diwali…Tanishq ad shows the way!
Diwali is a festival anchored in the sampradaya traditions and practices of Hindu dharma. You cannot selectively tease out, separate, dislocate elements and expect them to be stand-alone features...
A black Diwali for poor fire cracker manufacturers and sellers
Vikram -
This Diwali, as we celebrate the festival of lights with our family & friends, spare a thought for those associated with the firecracker industry....
Love Jihad – A case for death penalty
Naveen -
The term 'Love Jihad' was heard for the first time in the country in the year 2009 when several cases of conversion were reported...
Volvo joined the lecture-Hindus-on-Hindu-festivals bandwagon when it recently asked Hindus to celebrate a 'pollution-free' Diwali.
The Swedish vehicle maker, now owned by China's Zhejiang Geely...
After showing an inter-faith baby shower ceremony that struck a discordant note with the lived reality of countless Hindus, Tata group company Tanishq is...
Dimensions of Hindu Sati Pratha
The Hindus revere Shakti. She is prakriti, the pure energy that manifests purusha, the pure being, or consciousness. Mata Sati, one such revered form...
In the second part of the interview, Swami Mitrananda ji of Chinmaya Mission, Chennai, talks about recontextualising Vedanta in a contemporary context and reiterates...
In yet another chilling reminder of how parties that are the epitome of feudal (aka casteist), parochial, criminal, corrupt and bigoted politics are elevated...
Vikram -
Mathura recently witnessed a well choreographed secular stunt in which a Hindu temple's sanctity was violated.
On 29 October, two Muslim men, Faisal Khan and...