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  • Pitru Paksha – a fortnight of venerating and honouring our ancestors

    From 29th September Hindus observe the fortnight (Paksha) of the ancestors (Pitrus). Ancestor veneration is a unique facet of Hinduism and many ancient polytheistic/nature-based…

  • USA Returns Deities Stolen from Hindu Temples

    On 17th July the Indian Consulate in New York hosted a repatriation ceremony for stolen Indian artefacts. Dating from between the 2nd and 19th…

  • Dates for Rama Janbhoomi Mandir Consecration Announced

    Construction of a two-storey temple, at Shri Rama Janmabhoomi (Ayodhya, India) started in 2020. Work on the ground floor is nearing completion and this…

  • Just 12 days ago Majid Freeman also recorded Hindu children at Janmashtami festivities and asked the police to remove a Hanuman flag. Majid Freeman…

  • Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

    14ᵗʰ August marks the violent break-up of the ancient Hindu homeland August 1947 marked the end of British rule over India. Decades before independence, Muslim leaders argued India’s…

  • Toxic culture of Western ‘Yoga Studios’

    Hindu practitioner, Puravi Joshi, describes the superficial nature of this western appropriation of ‘Yoga’ that disrespects and mocks Hinduism. Practising Hindus have long been…

  • Narasimha Chathurdasi: Appearance of  Vishnu’s man-lion avatar

    Narasimha is the most fierce form of Vishnu who’s manifestation is marked at sunset Narasimha is the half man-half lion incarnation of Vishnu. As one of the most ferocious forms of…

  • Mesha Sankranti – Hindu Solar New Year

    The Sankranti (transit) of the Sun into Mesha Rashi (Taurus) is celebrated as the New Year by Hindu communities that follow the Sauramana (solar)…

  • LSE Students’ Union accused of Hindupobia

    Hindu and Indian postgraduate student Karan Kataria at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has submitted a complaint against the LSE…

  • Kashmiri Hindu shot dead while out shopping

    Sanjay Sharma, a 40 year old Kashmiri Hindu from Pulwama (Jammu & Kashmir, India) was shot dead by terrorists on Sunday 26th February 2023.…

  • Hindus claim new settlement law is Hinduphobic, discriminatory

    “Equality Labs”, an organisation behind the bill to “ban caste discrimination”, have previously called for Hinduism to be “dismantled”. On Tuesday this week, anti-Hindu…

  • The Kashmiri Hindu Identity: 33 Years On

    On 9th February 2023, Kings College London’s Hindu Society in collaboration with UCL Hindu Society and Imperial Hindu Society hosted an event on Kashmiri…