August 2023: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Children dressed up as Radha and Lord Krishna during the Janmashtami festival as the community marks the birth of Lord Krishna
Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
Dr. K. K. Muhammed, the Indian archaeologist who served as the Regional Director of the Archaeological Survey of India. He was heavily involved in the excavations done at the site of Babri masjid, and he was the first to ask Muslims to hand over the Babri Masjid area to Hindus after finding evidence that the mosque was built on the remains of a Hindu temple.
These things are not taught in school. Mr Gandhi completely twisted the teachings of Gita and turned Hindus into self-loathing cowards who can't fight back in the face of injustice.
Federal public safety officials and politicians say Hindus from India are safe and welcome in Canada after a viral video from a pro-Khalistan group called for them to leave the country.
No politician or government body singled out the video by name. But the comments come after a video by Sikhs for Justice, a group advocating for an independent Sikh state from present-day India called Khalistan, started circulating on social media.
In the video, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, general counsel for the group and a lawyer based in New York, called for Indian Hindus to "go back to India," accusing them of "working against the same country" that they economically benefit from.
so someone wrote the following tags on this post of mine (a story about my great grandmother and colonialism) and the tags have nothing to do with the original goal of the post. but since i was singled out for some reason, i’ll respond.
i’m sorry to break it to you but hinduphobia IS real. last navratri bangladeshi hindus had their temples demolished and their houses burned down. it is estimated that in 30 years there will be no more hindus left in bangladesh.
and there WAS a hindu genocide in kashmir. regardless of whether you’re left or right wing it should not be hard to discern that the exodus of kashmiri pandits in january 1990 was caused by a threat of genocide. they were told to flee, convert, or die. and so callously putting hindu genocide under quotes erases their trauma and experience. that’s why i defended the kashmir files. it did what it set out to do - give a voice to the kashmiri pandits once and for all. if you want to talk about the politics of the movie then find someone else. i don’t know much about indian politics to talk about it so i’d rather not say anything than say something damagingly ignorant, but i do know enough about kashmiri pandits and have seen enough of their survivor accounts to say that it was very clear that this was ethnic cleansing. my beauty parlor aunty herself is a refugee.
LASTLY as someone who has herself experienced bullying because of her hindu identity in america, it is incredibly ignorant, dare i say privileged, of you to say that hinduphobia is not a “genuine phenomenon.” i was made fun of for my bindi and was taunted by a classmate to eat beef. one time a white girl in preschool refused to play with me because i was both brown skinned and hindu. and there was a fucking GANG in jersey in the 1970′s called the dotbusters that SPECIFICALLY TARGETED HINDU WOMEN. please do not forget that even if hindus are a majority in india, they are ethnic, racial, and religious minorities in the rest of the world. so yes, hinduphobia is real. damn i wish it weren’t. but it is. and it is a desi issue. so i WILL tag this as hinduphobia AND desiblr. that’s all
A woman dances as she participates in a procession to mark Falgun Mahotsav ahead of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)
Adi Parashakti appeared as Divine Pure Eternal Consciousness, i.e., Shoonya Bindu, the divine zero feminine Energy, which expresses itself as Prakriti (Universal Nature). Hence Adi Parashakti is Parama Prakriti.
On the occasion of house warming as per Indian culture and tradition worshiping of cow is done. It is called gho pooja or Govardhana pooja. The part of the ritual is, they feed cow jaggery, fruits, rice and in devotion owner moves three times clockwise around it, an indication of reverence. Without performing this Gho pooja, house warming function is incomplete. In India cow is considered as a very sacred animal.