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What is Sanatana Dharma?

What is Sanatana Dharma? Let’s understand each of the two words seperately and then decipher what “Sanatan Dharma” means. SANATAN: A quick Google search of the meaning of “Sanatan” gave me the following results: The word ‘S…

 HINDUS CONVERT TO BUDDHISM AS AFTERMATH OF HATHRAS RAPE INCIDENT IN UP.

Mass conversions from Hinduism to Buddhism on the rise due to an escalation of atrocities on the historically oppressed communities Around 236 Hindu sanitary workers from Karhera village of Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh converted to Bu…

How old are the Vedas?

[Courtesy: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute] Copy of the oldest available Rig Veda, written in the year1464,  is registered at the UNESCO website. It was submitted for registration by India in 2007 and accepted. The two n…

What are the names of the six shastras of Hinduism?

The article is from a series of questions answered by Shekhar Bodhakar What makes think there are only six shastras of what was termed ‘Hinduism’ by the British in the early nineteenth century. ‘Hinduism’  was , what we can   c…

Will Hinduism survive in India?

This article is from a series of questions answered by  Shekhar Bodhakar The questioner is assuming that Hinduism is alive in India. The Hindu religion hasn't even been born yet, let alone will it survive. Will it ever be bor…

Is Hinduism a religion or a way of life?

Is Hinduism a religion or a way of life? The way the   question is phrased AND   usually   answered , implies that it is   one or the other.  IT’S NEITHER . What a ‘Hindu’ is and what ‘Hinduism’ isn’t. QUESTION: How do you explai…