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September 2021

September 02, 2021

Right-wing Hindu zealots torch copies of the Kama Sutra

A BOOKSHOP in the city of Ahmedabad in India was raided by a gang of...

August 2021

August 11, 2021

Bang the Elephant Beer blasted over Hindu goddess image

A BREWING company in Nottingham, England stands accused of "trivialising the immensely venerated Hindu goddess...

June 2021

June 13, 2021

India adds one more deity to its 33 million – ‘Corona Mata’

THE number of gods and demi-gods in Hindu mythology beggars belief. Now one more has...

May 2021

May 03, 2021

India’s nightmare ignited by religion, quackery & complacency

DONALD Trump instantly springs to mind when one thinks of a deranged world leader who...

January 2021

January 06, 2021

Comedians arrested, audience assaulted over alleged blasphemy

POPULAR Indian stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui and four fellow performers who were arrested last Friday...

August 2020

August 21, 2020

Holy cow! Hindu fanatic gets yoga lessons in a pasture banned

FOREVER on the lookout for things he regards as harmful to Hinduism, Nevada-based Rajan Zed...

July 2020

July 15, 2020

Hypersensitive group targets ‘offensive-to-Hindus’ Brahma beer

WHEN representatives of various faith groups – normally at loggerheads with each other and sometimes...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

Jesus’s ‘aroma of love’ failed to reach the nostrils of a UK priest

WHILE the toxic fall-out over the Catholic Church's hugely divisive 'pagan' Amazon Synod rages on...

November 09, 2019

Hindu god gets his day in court – and wins his temple battle

LORD Ram, represented by some of India's most influential lawyers, today (Saturday) won the right...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Defiant UK designer won’t withdraw Hindu goddess garments

DESPITE having been accused of disrespecting Hinduism by featuring a goddess on a range fashion...

January 20, 2019

Faith-based child abuse on the rise in Plymouth in the UK

PLYMOUTH, as we reported earlier today, has mercifully been spared a Christian prayer centre which...

January 07, 2019

Test-tube babies were created in India centuries ago, scientists told

ONCE upon a time India had a blind king named Dhritarashtra, whose wife Ghandari gave...

December 2018

December 05, 2018

Riot over ‘holy’ cows leads to death of a senior Indian cop

An attempt by police to quell a riot over the slaughter of cows in the...

November 2018

November 10, 2018

Hindu devotees rock up to get stoned for the goddess Kali

This is how the India's annual Pathron Ka Mela festival works: each year Hindu villagers...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Prayer room battles hot up at Columbia University in New York

While Muslims are complaining that the four prayer rooms allotted to them at the university...

October 18, 2018

Women journalists assaulted as Hindus riot at an Indian temple

The Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala, which was recently ordered by India's...

October 07, 2018

Indian court ruling on females will render a temple ‘impure’

The Sabarimala Temple in Kerala has always prevented females between the ages of 10 and...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Top Hindu: Don't use sacred imagery for 'mercantile greed'

The job of being President of the Universal Society of Hinduism (USofH) entails – among...

July 01, 2018

This Indian man believes that President Donald Trump is God

Bussa Krishna, a resident of Konne village in Telangana, India, worships Donald Trump – so...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

Indian 'godman' jailed for life for rape of teenage devotee

Millionaire Hindu guru Asaram Bapu, a sexual abstinence advocate, was today (Wednesday) jailed for life...

April 19, 2018

Indian cartoonist who 'hurt Hindu feelings' faces charges

The Hyderabad police have registered a case against Swathi Vadlamudi, a journalist working for an...

April 12, 2018

Girl, eight, was gang-raped in a Hindu temple then murdered

In what is thought to have been a brutal act of intimation against Muslims in...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

'Godman', accused of rape, reunited with his severed penis

Last year it was widely reported in India that that a Hindu "holy man" in...

March 19, 2018

Burning wood will combat pollution. It's a religious thing

In a Hindu religious ceremony scheduled to last nine days around 350 priests yesterday began...

March 04, 2018

Torture of young boys a feature of this Hindu religious festival

Friday, March 2, saw the culmination of the Attukal Pongala festival in Kerala – and...

February 2018

February 24, 2018

Indian lawmaker wants ghostly government building exorcised

BJP MLA Habibur Rehman, above, told Indian media this week that he has asked to...

February 09, 2018

London town hall to become a Hindu temple. Locals protest.

London's ITV news reported today that a sizeable protest took place outside Southall Town Hall...

February 07, 2018

Consumption of more cow's milk will reduce crime in India

Back in 2016 Indian nut-job Shankar Lal, above, prompted a great deal of eye-rolling when...

February 06, 2018

Indian journalist 'martyred' as Hindus and Muslims clash

Angry Hindus have vowed to avenge the death of journalist Rahul Upadhyay, above, who reported...

February 05, 2018

Yoga may not send you to Hell, but it won't get you to Heaven

Matt Walsh, above, described here as 'a hipster Christian blogger' and 'basically an outright asshole',...