Diaspora

The Museum of Art of Mormon-run Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo (Utah) has launched a “quiz” on its website which finds your Hindu ishta-devata (favorite deity) after nine multiple-choice questions. After one goes through…
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The World Sikh Organization of Canada welcomes the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) here today. WSO legal counsel Balpreet Singh attended the inauguration on behalf of the organization. The museum was the vision…
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A 55-year-old man has been charged with hate crime for calling a Sikh man "Osama" and intentionally hitting him with pick-up truck and dragging his body along and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted,a PTI report said. Queens…
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I arrived in Delhi on January 22nd at the invitation of the distributors of the film of my novel Midnight's Children. The plan was to visit four cities, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai, culminating in the Mumbai premier of the movie on…
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Hindus are upset with a recent Church of England's decision which has banned Yoga in its permises . Earlier St Edmund’s Church in Southampton (UK) had banned yoga from the Church hall on the premise that it was not-compatible with the…
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According to reports, St Edmund's Church in Southampton (UK) banned yoga from the Church hall on the premise that it was not-compatible with the Catholic faith. Instructor Cori Withell’s yoga classes, which were booked with payment of…
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Internationally renowned Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Seattle (Washington, USA) is holding an exhibition titled “Many Arrows from Rama's Bow: Paintings of the Ramayana” till December two. In collaboration with San Diego Museum of…
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New York: A US court is set to hear arguments in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case May 1 even as India's Congress party opposed the entry of a default judgment against it for its alleged role in the riots. Filing the Congress plea before…
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Islamabad: Hindu families in Sindh province were living in fear and insecurity due to their young women being forcibly converted, said a leading daily that called upon the government to act with urgency on the matter. An editorial in the…
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New York: A US based Sikh group, has approached Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanding the exclusion of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi from the United States. "Sonia Gandhi's entry and presence in the US is in violation of…
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