Recently, The Times newspaper published sections of ‘Suffering in Silence’, a series of two articles published last year in Hindu Voice UK, and took a picture of the article’s author directly from our site, without requesting our permission beforehand (view). As well totally violating our copyright, they also showed a lack of courtesy to the article’s author, Natasha Jalota, who also was not contacted beforehand. The following is a response that we have sent to The Times.

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When I heard that the India lost to Bangladesh, and later Sri Lanka, in the Cricket World Cup, I must have been only Indian who was actually happy.India is a nation crazy about the “sport” of cricket. You find kids playing cricket in every street in India, dreaming of becoming the next “superstar”. But I find it very hard to think of any reason to like the sport. For sure it’s not the fast paced action. And from an athletic or physical point of view, it certainly doesn’t do any wonders for the people playing the sport, at least not the lazy way the Indian cricketers is play. I was watching women’s football the other day. Okay it wasn’t as good as the men’s football but even then these women had better physiques and ran faster than the player in the Indian cricket team (the men’s one that is).

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This year, Rama Navami festival falls on 27th March. Coinciding with the festival, several Hindu groups across the world have launched a campaign centering of the heritage of Lord Rama. The Rama Sethu - a thin bride which connects India to Sri Lanka is one of the most important physical landmarks to ancient Hindu heritage, venerated as the bridge that Lord Rama’s armies built to reach Lanka for battle with Ravana. Recently, the Indian government has unleashed plans to destroy the bridge, to improve sea travel, leading to a campaign to reverse the government’s decision. Amongst the groups participating in the campaign to stop the plans for the bridge’s destruction going ahead is the London-based Hindu Human Rights group, whose views are expressed in this guest article.

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In the last month, a long-standing and emotional issue for British Hindus and Sikhs entered the national press, namely the pressure that many Hindus and Sikhs, especially young women, undergo to change their religion to Islam.The London Metro, Daily Times, Daily Mail and ‘This Is London’, amongst several other papers carried articles on the issue of religious intimidation of Hindus and Sikhs by certain sections of the Muslim community, particularly with regards to ‘conversion pressure tactics.’

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Most visitors to Kenya want to experience the country’s world famous wildlife. A land of great contrasts such as mountain ranges, forests, lakes, desert as well as the coastal areas, Kenya’s wilderness areas are famous world wide. The name Kenya has become synonymous with the great wilds of Africa.

But there is also another side of Kenya unknown to most visitors and that is its rich Hindu temples and Sikh Gurudwaras which form well-known landmarks in each and every town and city in Kenya.

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A survey carried out several months ago found that Hindus are more likely than any other ethnic or religious group to “want to fight for Britain”, even more so than white Britons. 56% of Hindus who participated in the survey were willing to fight for the country.Many expressed surprise at these results, myself included, because there is (a) not a large number of Hindus in the army, and (b) most of us have never spoken to many Hindus who are seriously considering pursuing a career in the army.

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The Home Office tells us that our prisons are overflowing and then all these paedophiles and yobs terrorising our neighbourhoods get released with a slap on the wrist. But they don’t tell you that there are all these women in prison, for the heinous, bloodcurdling crime of not paying TV licences.Two years ago I almost became part of that part of that statistic.

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The well-known ‘Nehru-Gandhi dynasty’ of India scarcely requires an introduction. From the days of India’s, Jawaharlal Nehru (India’s first premier) to his celebrated daughter the mercurial Indira Gandhi to Rajiv and Sonia, to Priyanka and Rahul the Gandhi name in politics now enters a fourth generation. The spell held over many of India’s voters appears to be as strong as ever with crowds flocking to see the children of the dynasty enter the murky and on occasion deadly arena of Indian politics.

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Recently there have been several articles in the national press about the pressure that many Hindus and Sikhs growing up in Britain, especially young women, are put under to convert to Islam by a certain radicalised section of Muslim youth. There have been mixed responses and a variety of opinions expressed about this issue. What are your views?

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There are many pilgrimage sites, which most Hindus will attempt to visit at some time or other during their lives. The most famous example is the River Ganga (anglicised Ganges), which literally millions will attempt to visit and bathe in each year.

The practice of travelling to pilgrimages was something I could never understand. Hindu philosophy proclaims the whole world to be divine. So why are certain places granted a special status and considered especially holy?

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