The elephant in the room is a god, ad watchdog decides
In September we reported that Hindus were rebuffed by Australia’s Advertising Standards Board, which found nothing offensive about a humorous lamb ad and rejected calls to ban it. Well, according to...
View ArticleIndian movie director faces death threats over new film
Back in 1992, Hindu fanatics numbering 150,000 demolished the 16th-century Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya because the site was considered by some be Ram Janmabhoomi, the actual birthplace of the...
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Making babies for Lord Kartik
The Indian province of West Bengal has an absurd Hindu custom that involves the placing of Kartik idols on the doorsteps of households with childless couples on last day of the ‘holy’ month of Kartik....
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Yoga may not send you to Hell, but it won’t get you to Heaven
Matt Walsh, above, described here as ‘a hipster Christian blogger’ and ‘basically an outright asshole’, last week went gunning for Christians who see no harm in yoga. He reported here that he tweeted:...
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Indian journalist ‘martyred’ as Hindus and Muslims clash
Angry Hindus have vowed to avenge the death of journalist Rahul Upadhyay, above, who reported died when Hindus and Muslims were involved in riots in the Indian city of Kasganj last month. But...
View ArticleConsumption of more cow’s milk will reduce crime in India
Back in 2016 Indian nut-job Shankar Lal, above, prompted a great deal of eye-rolling when he advised people to follow his example by smearing their cellphones with fresh cow shit, claiming it would...
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London town hall to become a Hindu temple. Locals protest.
London’s ITV news reported today that a sizeable protest took place outside Southall Town Hall in West London because the building is to be acquired by a ‘religious organisation’ which was it did not...
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Indian lawmaker wants ghostly government building exorcised
BJP MLA Habibur Rehman, above, told Indian media this week that he has asked to Rajasthan’s Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to conduct religious ceremonies to rid the state’s secretariat building of...
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Torture of young boys a feature of this Hindu religious festival
Friday, March 2, saw the culmination of the Attukal Pongala festival in Kerala – and the outbreak of row sparked by a senior police officer who blasted the cruel treatment of young boys in the name of...
View ArticleBurning wood will combat pollution. It’s a religious thing
In a Hindu religious ceremony scheduled to last nine days around 350 priests yesterday began burning 50,000 kg (55 tons) of mango wood in special firepits – to combat pollution. According to this...
View Article‘Godman’, accused of rape, reunited with his severed penis
Last year it was widely reported in India that that a Hindu “holy man” in Kerala lost 90 percent of his penis when he was ‘bobbitised‘ by a young woman he had allegedly been raping over several years....
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Girl, eight, was gang-raped in a Hindu temple then murdered
In what is thought to have been a brutal act of intimation against Muslims in Kashmir, Ashifa Bano, above, was kidnapped and taken to a Hindu temple near Jammu city where she was allegedly gang-raped...
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Indian cartoonist who ‘hurt Hindu feelings’ faces charges
The Hyderabad police have registered a case against Swathi Vadlamudi, a journalist working for an English daily, for a cartoon she created in response to high profile rape cases in India. According to...
View ArticleIndian ‘godman’ jailed for life for rape of teenage devotee
Millionaire Hindu guru Asaram Bapu, a sexual abstinence advocate, was today (Wednesday) jailed for life for raping a teenage female devotee at his ashram near Rajasthan city in 2013. According to this...
View ArticleThis Indian man believes that President Donald Trump is God
Bussa Krishna, a resident of Konne village in Telangana, India, worships Donald Trump – so much so that he lies prostrate in front of the narcissist’s image and even has a little shrine built for the...
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Top Hindu: Don’t use sacred imagery for ‘mercantile greed’
The job of being President of the Universal Society of Hinduism (USofH) entails – among other important things – admonishing companies for messing with Hindu deities. And US-based Rajan Zed, above, who...
View ArticleIndian court ruling on females will render a temple ‘impure’
The Sabarimala Temple in Kerala has always prevented females between the ages of 10 and 50 from worshipping there – but last month India’s Supreme court ruled that this was discrimination, plain and...
View ArticleWomen journalists assaulted as Hindus riot at an Indian temple
The Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala, which was recently ordered by India’s Supreme Court to open its doors to women of all ages, was the focal point of violence yesterday when...
View ArticlePrayer room battles hot up at Columbia University in New York
While Muslims are complaining that the four prayer rooms allotted to them at the university are inadequate, Hindus are griping that they don’t have one at all. Spearheading a demand for a “permanent...
View ArticleHindu devotees rock up to get stoned for the goddess Kali
This is how the India’s annual Pathron Ka Mela festival works: each year Hindu villagers near Shimla in Himachal Pradesh pelt one another with stones, and the person who gets to bleed first is regarded...
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