Category: Hindu achievements
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Hindus: most environmentally conscious of Britain’s faith groups
A report by Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL) concluded that Hindus in the UK are most likely to engage in environmentally friendly behaviour than other religious groups. The report was based on a survey of Britain’s three largest religious communities; Christians, Muslims, and Hindus – Britain’s three largest religious communities, questioned…
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Indonesian Hindus welcome Murugan to Java
Java, Indonesia: Mahakumbhabhishekam rituals took place to inaugurate Jakarta’s Murugan Temple, (Shri Sanathana Dharma Aalayam) @jktmurugantemple this February. At 400 square meters, this is Indonesia’s first temple dedicated to Murugan. Built with a towering 40-meter high Rajagopuram (entrance tower), it is now Indonesia’s largest temple built in the Dravida style of architecture (native to Southern Bharat). Home…
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Prana Pratishta rituals take place at Shri Ram’s birthplace
5th June 2025: This morning, the Prana Pratishta rituals took place at the Shri Ram Mandir at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi (birthplace of Rama) in Ayodhya, India. Following the opening of the main shrine on the ground of the temple on 22nd January 2022, construction of the remaining shrines in the temple complex continued. This included…
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Hindu Astronaut ranks amongst most experienced spacewalkers
On 5th June 2024, Sunita Williams and her colleague Barry Wilmore left Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard the Boeing Crew Flight Test; on the spacecraft’s first journey with astronauts. The spacecraft was due to dock at the International Space Station (ISS), that orbits the Earth and return after 9 days. Due to technical issues,…
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Wembley based Vivek Gaurav’s pragmatic environmental activism
29 year old Vivek (instagram: @theplogman) from Pune, India, now based in North London, is an environmental activism who leads the world’s largest community of ‘ploggers’. The concept started in Sweden in 2016, the word Plogging is made up of the Swedish jogga (jogging) and plocka up (a pick-up). Plogging is form of litter picking where people…
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10-year-old Krish Arora beats Einstein in IQ test
Krish Arora; a 10-year-old British Hindu from Hounslow, has scored the maximum possible IQ of 162, placing him in the top 1% of the population and surpassing the estimated IQs of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking (160). From a young age, Krish was well ahead of his peers. He was reading fluently by age 4…
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Gukesh; world’s youngest world chess champion, remains rooted in Hindu Dharma
On 12th December 2024, Hindu chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju, aged 18, became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion, after defeating the reigning champion, Ding Liren of China in Singapore. The teenager defeated Ding Liren, who had held the crown for a year, by 7.5-6.5 in their closely fought £2 million match in Singapore. Nine…
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Renovating Swaminarayan Mandir Karachi; beacon of Hindu resilience
This year will see the renovation of the Swaminarayan Mandir in Karachi, Pakistan, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Naranarayandev Gadi. One of the two lineages established by Shri Swaminarayan, this Gadi (seat of spiritual leadership) is based at the world’s oldest Swaminarayan Mandir in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) and is led by Acharya Koshalendraprasadji. Under…
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Channel 5 show recognises charitable service of Jalaram Temple Greenford
As part of a feature before Christmas, the Jeremy Vine Show (Channel 5 talk show) showcased and awarded outstanding community services from across the UK. The Jalaram Soup Kitchen (JSK), which is run by the Shree Jalaram Temple Greenford was recognised for its achievements in distributing meals to the homeless.Over the past 8 years, JSK…
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British Hindu recreates 2,000 year old Roman Helmet
In 2001, pieces of a Roman military helmet were discovered in Market Harborough (Leicestershire). Conservation experts from the British Museum and Leicestershire Museums subsequently created designs of what the entire helmet would have looked like and enlisted Rajesh Gogna to recreate the helmet. Using 3D printed plastic mould, Rajesh created two silver-plated and gilded helmets…
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Yoga on ice video goes viral in China
April 2024: Siddharth Chatterjee; UN Resident Coordinator for China, released a documentary video on how yogic practices and deep breathing can support the development of immunity from viruses. The short documentary which went viral on Chinese social media features 60-year-old Siddarth sitting shirtless on a frozen lake in Beijing, performing pranayam (deep breathing) followed by…
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Gorkha veteran: first double amputee to climb Everest
Hari Buddha Magar became the first double above-knee amputee to climb Mt Everest in May 2023. This achievement came after his ascent to Mont Blanc (France-Italy) in 2019 and Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) in 2020. With a goal to climb the highest peak on each continent, Hari recently ascended Mt Denali (North America) and by 2026, he…