Category: Rememberance
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35 years since Kashmiri Hindu Ethnocide, attacks still continue
Today, 19 January 2025, marks 35 years since the Kashmiri Hindu Exodus & ethnocide of 1990. Over 350,000 indigenous Kashmiri Hindus were forced to leave their homes after seeing their leaders, colleagues and family members being subjected to murder, rape or kidnapping. Islamist terrorist groups had become emboldened with numerous Kashmiri Islamists crossing the Line…
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Hindu Community Organisations across UK participate in Remembrance Sunday
On Sunday 10th November 2024, Hindu organisations across towns and cities the UK participated in Remembrance Sunday events to commemorate lives of British and Commonwealth military and civilian service people in the two World Wars and subsequent conflicts. In the image: The team from Bradford Hindu Council here taking part in commemorations at the city’s…
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Hindus across UK, observe first annual Day of Remembrance
On Saturday 28th September 2024, Hindu Memorial Day was observed at Hindu Temples and Community Centres across the UK in Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Derby, Dundee, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Nottingham, Reading, Slough, Kent and Wellingborough. Further events took place today in Aylesbury and London. Held during Pitru Paksha; the traditional annual period for remembering ancestors,…
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Trinidad mourns the loss of its first Hindu Prime Minister
1st January 2024: Basdeo Panday passed away in Florida (USA) after suffering from Pneumonia at the age of 90. His body was repatriated to Trinidad and Tobago for the first Trinidadian state funeral performed with Hindu rituals. Basdeo was the 5th Prime Minsiter of this Caribbean nation and the first of Hindu origin. Born in…
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Hindus, Sikhs, mark 40 years since Punjab insurgency and Operation Bluestar
In the 1980s, the Indian state of Punjab experienced political turmoil, caused by a political conflict between Sikh separatists and the Congress Party running India’s Central Government. The conflict culminated in an attack on the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) by the Indian Army on 6th June 1984, which the Indian Government claimed was provoked by…
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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 two majority communities; Hindus and Muslims, were separate ‘nations’ with irreconcilable differences and hence Muslims required a separate country – Pakistan. In 1946, the majority of Muslims voted for the Muslim…
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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. Even though targeted killings of Kashmiri Hindus have once again become regular occurrences, Western media sources have adopted a policy of selective silence by failing to report on the situation. In…
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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 Identity at UCL. The evening featured an incredible presentation and Q and A from Kashmiri youth, who’s parents had witnessed and experienced first-hand the exodus in Kashmir during 1990. The event…
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In the Houses of Parliament commemorating 33 years Kashmiri Hindus have spent in exile
A few of us volunteers at British Hindus were able to attend an event in the Houses of Parliament this week (25th January 2023), commemorating 33 years since the most recent genocide of Hindus in Kashmir, and the exodus of over 350,000 Hindus that followed. This genocide is the most recent of many that Kashmiri…
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Armistice Day
Today, the 11th day of November, commemorates the end of World War I. At 11am, Hindus across the UK will join the two minutes silence to pay tribute to the military personnel who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. In addition to offering our Shradhanjali (tribute to deceased) to those who attained Veergati…