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Do Christians also practise caste system, asks SC

President's remark on Manusmriti irks Dalits

India elects first female president

Meghalaya opposes constitution amendment

Hindu nationalism is anti-poor and anti-Dalit, research says

Hindu's talk center of squabble A Hindu speaker coming to Hollywood allegedly was involved in the 1992 destruction of a mosque.

Congressman Franks Introduces Dalit Resolution
Speaks on the plight of â€œUntouchablesâ€? in India

Hindu Mob in India Beats, Strips, Parades Pastor.

Kerala to bring law regarding entry to temples

Anti conversion bill expected in eighth state

Thousands of Christians, Dalits court arrest in Delhi

The Cover-up Begins: National HSC Goes One Step Further to Dupe its Membership

The Cover-up Continues: National HSC Takes Yet Another Step to hide its ties

Indian heads must hang in shame -- this is happening in our own Silicon Valley !

US warns India over 'world's largest human
trafficking problem'

Blame the police, not the messenger

'Sikhs belong to Hindu samaj'

Attack on preacher flayed

NCM's plea to Chhattisgarh Government

Dalit killed for digging own well

Fake encounter: Desh bhakti was cops mantra

Christian preacher attacked in Jaipur

Cow's urine sprinkled on students, headmaster held

US tourists quizzed for 'proselytisation'

Kashmir : Christian leader beheaded by Muslim terrorists

U R G E N T F A X

Catholic Union urges Chief Minister Ghulam Azad to ensure relief for
Kashmiri converts to Christianity who are refugees of violence and
terrorism in State

Gov't survey sheds light on Christian development crisis

The Deception Continues: HSC Fails to Deny CSFH Charges

INDIA: HATE CAMPAIGN ADDS FUEL TO PERSECUTION FIRE

Gujarat govt says Muslim man killed wrongly

Indian Hindu Militants Burn Down Church, Attack Pastors

The man who filed complaint against Babu Bajrangi is missing in Gujarat

Prizes get Golwalkar tag in Rajasthan

Thousands of Hindus vow to end caste divide

The End of Upper Caste Propaganda in Global Forums

*Jagannath Temple, Puri, Orissa was a Buddhist temple*

Activists criticise destruction of food in the name of religion"

UCAN: Bishop says Hindu demand against tribal Christian rights targets mission work

Sach ki Yadein, Yadon ka Sach

PROTEST AS CHRISTIAN GRAVEYARD IS DUG IN GUJARAT

Guns, Roses & India's V-Day

Centre urged to stop funding Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in Rajasthan

Brahmins fear quota will unite SCs & OBCs & kill Brahminism

VHP chief for a Hindu political party

Andhra Pradesh Propagation of Other Religion...

ANDHRA PRADESH Propagation of Other Religion in the Places of Worship or Prayer(Prohibition) Ordinance, 2007
Promulgated by the Governor in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India. An Ordinance empowering the state to prohibit propagation of religionin places of worship or prayer other than the religion traditionally practiced at such place and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

A 'Broken People' in Booming India

DALLIPUR, India -- The hip young Indians working inside this country's multinational call centers have one thing in common: Almost all hail from India's upper and middle castes, elites in this highly stratified society.
India may be booming, but not for those who occupy the lowest rung of society here. The Dalits, once known as untouchables, continue to live in grinding poverty and suffer discrimination in education, jobs and health care. For them, status and often occupation are still predetermined in the womb.

Letter To A Young American Hindu

Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parentsâ€™ families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma. One side leans towards Hinduism; the other to Sikhism. The city, the metro, provided its own cultural mooring, and in secular India, I found myself interested in all religions and deeply schooled in none. Id meant fellowship with my Muslim neighbors and friends; a Navjot meant a crash course in Parsi life; Nanakâ€™s birthday meant a visit to Gurudwara Sant Kutiya in the center of town; Christmas, which is Bara Din in Calcutta, meant a brightly lit Park Street and a visit to St. Paulâ€™s Cathedral;

Temple row: Vayalar threatens action

NEW DELHI: Moving from regret over the purification ceremony at the Krishna temple in Guruvayur after a visit by Vayalar Ravi's son and grandson, the Union minister said his family was contemplating legal action.
Ravi, minister for overseas Indian affairs, said he was "humiliated, insulted and felt sad" and alleged that the temple priests continued to discriminate on the basis of caste.

VHP activists beat up two priests

Kolhapur (Maharashtra): In a shocking attack, two priests from Ichalkaranji, in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district, were severely beaten up by Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists. The VHP activists alleged that the priests were engaged in converting Hindus to Christianity.

The priests were dragged to the local police station after they were mercilessly beaten up in full public view. Even more shockingly, the police detained the priests but took no action against the activists who beat them up. "It's highly shameful. It's as if the Bajrang Dal does just not understand the concept of law and order," said Congress leader Rajiv Shukla, reacting sharply to the incident.

Recommends CBI inquiry into Gujarat fake encounter killings

NEW DELHI: The report on the Gujarat fake encounter killings submitted by Inspector General of Police Geetha Johri speaks of "the collusion of [the] State government in the form of Shri Amit Shah, MOS for Home." It says the episode "makes a complete mockery of the rule of law and is perhaps an example of the involvement of [the] State government in a major crime." Ironically, while the Gujarat government has been resisting a CBI investigation into the murder of three innocent persons by a team of police officers and policemen belonging to the Gujarat and Rajasthan police, the Johri report firmly recommends it: "The entire enquiry should at once be entrusted to the CBI."

VHP-backed outfit attacks Christians

BHOPAL: Members of the Dharma Sena, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad-backed outfit, attacked many Christians, including girls and women, who were participating in a Palm Sunday function in Jabalpur's Cantonment area. Case filed

The police have registered a case of rioting and damage to property under Sections 147, 148, 323, 427 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code against the Dharma Sena activists.

"Ban on christian preachings at Tirumala"

Hyderabad, India - The Andhra Pradesh government Friday decided to promulgate an ordinance prohibiting propagation of other religions in certain notified places of worship belonging to any particular religion.

The move is mainly aimed at banning propagation of any religion other than Hinduism at the Lord Venkateshwara temple on Tirumala Hills near Tirupati.

Tamil Nadu to provide separate reservation for Muslims, Christians

In the midst of a raging controversy over the Supreme Court's stay on the 27 per cent reservation for OBC students in elite educational institutions, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday announced an 'exclusive reservation' for Christians and Muslims in government services and educational institutions.

Intervening during a debate on the demands of grants for the minorities department, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi told the state Assembly that the government had accepted the recommendations of the state Backward Classes Commission, headed by Justice M Janardanam, retired judge of the Madras high court, in this regard.

Campus Hindu Organization Conclusively Linked to the Sangh Parivar in North America and India

New York , Friday, April 13, 2007: The Campaign to Stop Funding Hate (CSFH) will release a new report, Lying Religiously: The Hindu Students Council and the Politics of Deception, on Sunday, April 15, 2007. The report brings together evidence from multiple sources to demonstrate a web of connections between the Hindu Students Council (HSC) and the violent, hindu ultra-right Sangh Parivar, and exposes the deliberate efforts of the HSC leadership to conceal its links with the Sangh Parivar in order to deceive Hindu-American college students. The report provides the first comprehensive documentation of the origins, methods and practices of the HSC.

Justice Rare for Victims of Christian Persecution in India

New Delhi, March 26 (International Christian Concern) - Victims of Christian persecution from across India shared their horrific stories and highlighted the denial of justice to them before an independent people's jury.

The depositions were part of "The Independent People's Tribunal against the Rise of Fascist Forces in India and the Attack on the Secular State," a three-day program which concluded here on March 22.

Independent People's Tribunal on Rise of Fascist Forces and the Attack on the Secular State

About three hundred women and men from different states of India who had confronted communal campaigns and experienced its brutality had assembled in Delhi from 20-23 March to give their testimony to an independent people's tribunal organized by a Delhi based voluntary organization, ANHAD and Human Rights Law Network. They consisted of people who have suffered mental and physical torture, driven out of their homes and have lost their dear and near ones. The testimonies rendered by them before the tribunal have clearly demonstrated that communalization is on a fast track in the country and a take over of the state by fascist forces is a distinct possibility. They shared their pain and anguish the myriad ways in which communal forces are expanding their sphere of influence, both through propaganda and coercion.

Articles

Driven to despair

After Kerala, temple purification row in TN

Why BJP hates Pratibha?

Can The Real Shekhawat Ever Stand Up ?

INDIA – HUMAN RIGHTS
Hindu nationalism is anti-poor and anti-Dalit, research says

Is YSR buckling under Sangh Parivar's pressure?

Lessons from 1857

Sectarian Violence in Plural Society

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UK Hindu Council does not like the article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Hindu Extremists attack Roman Catholic Priest

Muslim population a threat, says Kataria

How to use a rape case for fanning communalism