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Hinduism

July 2024

  • Rishi Sunak outside No 10 Downing Street

    ‘Bittersweet’: south Asians in UK reflect on Rishi Sunak’s historic term as PM

    People share their pride and disappointment on the tenure of Britain’s first Asian and Hindu prime minister
  • Shoes on the ground with people pictured in the background

    India deadly crush blamed on huge overcrowding as death toll passes 120

    Police report says 250,000 people had gathered at a Hindu event in Uttar Pradesh that had a capacity of 80,000
  • An ambulance at the Sikandra Rao hospital in Hathras.

    At least 116 killed in crush at Hindu gathering in northern India, say officials

    Most of the dead are women or children, say officials, with suggestions a dust storm created panic as thousands were leaving a prayer meeting in Hathras, south-east of Delhi

June 2024

  • A silhouette of a woman in a seated yoga pose

    Making sense of it
    We should embrace our inner goddess – but let’s not create another test for women to fail

    Jackie Bailey
  • An illustration of two yogis facing the sun

    Making sense of it
    Yes, praying and posing can bring joy – but true spirituality demands something more of us

    Jackie Bailey

May 2024

  • Narendra Modi participating in a roadshow during an election campaign ahead of India's election

    The Guardian view on India’s election: Narendra Modi’s audacity of hate

    Editorial: India’s prime minister encourages a belief in his divinity, leading followers to think it is God’s purpose to spread fear and loathing
  • Mohammad Aman showing a photo of his 17-year-old brother Mohammed Anas who was shot in the abdomen by police in Haldwani, Uttrakhand.

    Today in Focus
    How an Indian state became a testing ground for Hindu nationalism

    Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports from Uttarakhand, which offers a glimpse into what the future might look like if the BJP retains its power in national elections
  • Narendra Modi holds a microphone as he speaks to Mark Zuckerberg while seated on stage

    Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence

    Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups

April 2024

  • Members of India’s Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a rally near Hyderabad. Photograph: STR/AFP via Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart – podcast

  • India’s prime minister Narendra Modi at a pilgrimage site in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas

    ‘I was told I’d be killed if I didn’t leave’: Himalayan state is a testing ground for Modi’s nationalism

  • Observer Magazine<br>SELF - writer Sheela Banerjee, - Sari Journey - photographed at home in London.

    Self and wellbeing
    Material world: how the sari connected me to my past

  • A 72-year-old man sits in a mosque entranceway

    The Hindu caretaker and his mosque: a symbol of harmony amid India’s religious discord

March 2024

  • Swatantra Veer Savarkar - press film Still 37

    Swatantra Veer Savarkar review – biopic of Hindu nationalist is self-defeating call to arms

  • LEICESTER, 29 November 2023 - The Belgrave Road area of Leicester where scuffles between large crowds led to arrests after “serious disorder” in a series of disturbances in the city following a cricket match between India and Pakistan in August 2022. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    The Audio Long Read
    What the unrest in Leicester revealed about Britain – and Modi’s India – podcast

February 2024

  • A moving, graphic illustration. On the left is a black-and-white image of a young Indian man, wearing a turtleneck beneath a shirt with a butterfly collar and trousers, smiling at the camera. He has dark, gelled hair, a full but trim beard, and light-colored eyes. On the right are dozens of the yellow-and-blue praying hands emoji, and when you scroll down, dozens more appear.

    Uncovering the higher truth of Jay Shetty

  • A procession celebrating the upcoming Hindu Ram Temple opening in Ayodhya, India

    Opinion
    Indian women are being told nationalism will empower them. It’s a trick

    Pragya Agarwal
  • An employee closes the gate while he secures it with wire as an animal ambulance enters while carrying both the lions into Bengal Safari park

    Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India

  • A young woman stands in a large building with hands raised in prayer as a shrouded corpse lies at the door of a furnace, with flames seen from a burning firebrand

    Last rites for Delhi’s forgotten: the woman who cremates strangers

  • The long read
    What the unrest in Leicester revealed about Britain – and Modi’s India

  • Hindus can worship in contested mosque, Indian court rules

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