In a Sacred Grove

'It was the BJP people who had forced Babasaheb to leave Hinduism and embrace Buddhism, and today these people are enacting a drama of adopting Babasaheb'  IMAGE: Statue of BR Ambedkar in saffron colour. Photograph: PTI Photo  A freshly installed 5-foot-tall statue of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar in saffron jacket in Badaun district of western Uttar Pradesh was repainted blue on Tuesday amid questions over the choice of a colour associated with Hindutva. The ...

Hinduism has been debated over and defined innumerable times by an array of theologians, sages, kings and philosophers. Going by the records of interpretations of Hinduism, it would be difficult to point out one particular way or ritual that could be defined ...

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh believes in Hindutva which has truth and non-violence as its core values about which B R Ambedkar and Vivekananda had spoken, its chief Mohan Bhagwat has said. However, if required, one should fight to protect the core values of Hindutva, he said. "We consider Hindutva as only one It is the set of values which we believe in. It is the same one about which Vivekananda, Subhas Chandra Bose, Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur, Babasaheb Ambedkar have spoken," he said in ...

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has called for taking back the idea of Hinduism from those who have "hijacked" it and expressed concern over its misuse for very narrow-minded political purposes.Tharoor, who has come out with a book on his understanding of ...

There's a notion, quite popular on Whatsapp and other forms of social media, which believes that Hindu festivals are unfairly targeted by elitists.

[India], Mar 1 (ANI): Over 60 Dalit families, in Karnataka's Kundagoli village in Kalburagi district renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism today. The main reason for the conversion was cited as oppression and abuse from the upper-caste Hindu members of ...

‘The political atmosphere in Karnataka is in favour of the Congress’ ‘Hindutva is not an issue in Karnataka’ With months to go for the Karnataka assembly elections, the man in the hot seat, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah says he’ll make billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and the Punjab National Bank scam an issue in the upcoming Karnataka elections . In an interview to CNN-News18’s Deepa Balakrishnan, the CM also says that Hindutva is ...

Questioning Rahul Gandhi's temple visits ahead of the coming Karnataka Assembly polls, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said Congress is now 'pseudo-Hinduism'.

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar claimed that Gandhi did not go to temples in Delhi when he was elected Congress president, which was the biggest day in his life.