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EDITORIAL & ANALYSIS ARCHIVE August 2008 Knife crime: my two cents - Recently the subject of knife crime in Britain has caught the national attention more than ever before... Letters to the Editor - Readers speak their minds... Hindu temples lead the way in Green Technology - Many of the most famous holy shrines in India have emerged as leading centers in the implementation of green technology... How should Hindus relate to Western culture?- The two needn’t stand in conflict with one another...
May 2008 Hindus contribute to Labour's election thrashing - Having spoken to dozens of Hindus regarding who they voted for in the May 1st elections... Letters to the Editor - Readers speak their minds... India's flawed stance on China & Tibet - It was an act symptomatic of an ever weaker and submissive stance towards China... Inadequate support structures within the Hindu community: A Case Study - Service of people and helping each other in times of hardship is an important aspect of Hindu dharma...
Shivratri 2008 Issues of violence amongst Hindus in the UK - “All Hindu youngsters go to university and get good white collar jobs, and act as pillars of the community”... Letters to the Editor - Readers speak their minds... Don't become an N.R.Idiot - Eyewitness A.Kumar reports... Shiv Sena under the microscope - most young Hindus in the west assume it to be some kind of religious vigilante organisation or gangster outfit...
December 2007 Hindi TV Serials – The Housewive’s Ruin - Indian TV serials harm our socila fabric, argues Rudra Chatterjee ... Letters to the Editor - Readers speak their minds... A Malay(s) in Asia - Sandeep Sharma on the recent events in Malaysia... Am I a Hindu? - Well I've always thought so, but ...
Diwali 2007 Happy online Diwali to all our readers - Surprisingly perhaps, the internet has turned out a boon to who are struggling to celebrate Diwali ... Letters to the Editor - Readers speak their minds... Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism and India - A guest artical by David Frawley... Views on the Saudi King's UK visit - Sheena Patel reports on different reactions ...
September 2007 The spirit of Navratri lives on - Editor Neha Gohil's thoughts on Navratri in Brition today... Letters to the Editor - Readers Speak their minds... Fear of a failed Garba - Hindu Voice UK's Rajesh Patel describes his first Garba event... Yoga teacher expelled from two churches - Were the church within their rights?...
August 2007 Ultraviolent videogames - Harmless fun or sowing the seeds of destruction... Hindu Voice Editorial Policy - Some important points to clarify for our users... Is the term 'Bollywood' demeaning? - Too many, the word conveys a serious lack of originality... Indian soldiers in Jammu & Kashmir - Living every day not knowing if it's going to be the last...
July 2007 1984 & the Future of Hindu-Sikh Relations - An overview of one of the most controversial issues of morden Indian History... Dhotis versus Trousers - An amusing remnant of British Colonialism in Chennai... Hindu Funerals go green - A beautiful example of the evolving pratice of Hinduism... Even bigger trouble in little Southall - After a number of responses from readers...
May - June 2007 1857 to 2007 - This month marks the 150th anniverssary of an improtant in both British and Indian History , which has not been given the coverage it deserves... Mockery of practicing Hindus in the UK - Young Hindus in this country are often mocked for... Entering the Hindu fold - More and more people from non-Hindu backgrounds are taking up Hindu Dharma... Big trouble in little Southall - Nidhi Bahtia reports on temple committees behaving badly...
April 2007 Meet the Writers - Been reading Hindu Voice UK, Find out who writes it... Lay off meat eating Hindus...PLEASE - Some things just have to be said... Only in America? - A comment on the Virginia Tech shooting... Don't go to university…If you want your children to! - The well-known 'Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty' scarcely requires an introduction...
March 2007 Cricket Crazy Nation - 'When I heard that the India lost to Bangladesh,the only Indian who was actually happy'... Hindus in the Army - Hindus are more likely than any other ethnic or religious group to "want to fight for Britain"... The Campaign to save Rama's Bridge - A guest artical by Hindu Human Rights, on Rama's Bridge... HinduUnity.org versus Rahul Gandhi - The well-known 'Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty' scarcely requires an introduction...
February 2007 Ayurveda's bleak future - New British legislation will endanger authentic Ayurveda... The dreaded 'H-word' - An analysis of the tendency of many Hindu-inspired groups to vehemently deny any connections with Hinduism... Yitzak Rabin and Mahatma Gandhi - A Tale of two murders, which show remarkable similarity... The Criminal Hindu? - Traditional Indian society prided itself on its non - criminal nature...
January 2007 Big Brother and 1984 - Little known to many, the man who first coined 'Big Brother'... A call for the 'Intellectual Kshatriya' - The need of the day... A call for the 'Intellectual Kshatriya' - The need of the day... Empire in classrooms - For the first time of legacy of the British Empire is to be taught...
December 2006 One year of Hindu Voice UK! - 2006 has been a great year for Hindu Voice UK... Celebrating Christmas as a Hindu - The festival has a universal appeal that is beyond... Plenty of fish is the sea? - Not any more... Tony Blair on the Slave Trade - An apologetic non-apology (if that makes sense)...
November 2006 The Chai-Pakora mentality - Rajun Shah writes a highly critical piece on the current mentality... "I am a Hindu first" - Why are we stuck in this rhetoric of giving endless importance to divisions... Our holidays to India - India is thought of as one of the best holiday destinations in the world, but... Saddam and the West - A large part of the Saddam story is being omitted from the coverage...
October 2006 Editorial - One couldn't help being struck by a sad sense of déjà vu at the news of another... The Vested Property Act - Bangladesh's constitutional tool of repression of the country's Hindus... University Diwali Show rant - If you look at most Asian or Indian societies at campuses across... Hindu nationalism versus Hindu universalism - Hindu nationalism can be defined as...
September 2006 Editorial - Namaste and welcome back to Hindu Voice UK... Eating of Meat and Beef in the Hindu Tradition - It was on the 6th August 1972 that Idi Amin... Why a Hindu temple is NOT like a Soho phone booth - It was nearing Diwali and my family had placed a swastika design... Capitalism and communism - Nowadays your average shopping area is completely dominated...
August 2006 Editorial - Foreign policy is never a good enough excuse... Remembering the Ugandan Indian exodus - It was on the 6th August 1972 that Idi Amin... The Swastika story - It was nearing Diwali and my family had placed a swastika design... Capitalism and communism - Nowadays your average shopping area is completely dominated...
July 2006 Editor's note - With one of the hottest British summers in a very long while... Kali in the western media - Some days back I was discussing classic films with friends... How non-Hindus were Hindus historically? - The image of the mild, non-violent, vegetarian Hindu animates... Was the British Raj good for India? - To the vast majority of Hindus in the UK, who are also vociferously proud of their Indian...
June 2006 Editorial - The closure of the art exhibition at Asia House send a dangerous message... Do our temples really serve the community - An analysis of the role of Hindu temples in Britain... Hindus in Pakistan: a history - There are approximately five times more Hindus in Pakistan than in Britain... Which Hindu leaders supported the Nazis? - An analysis of the stance of the four most infuential...
May 2006 Editorial - This month sees the launch of a new section of Hindu Voice UK... Career choices - Stuck in the middle amongst a herd of sheep... Hindus of Holland - After the UK, the second largest Hindu community in Europe... The Kashmir problem - An insight into the Kashmir problem...
April 2006 Editorial: Why you should vote of May 4th - If you can't be bothered to vote on May 4th, maybe this will make you reconsider... Disenchanted with the 'Asian' label - Sometimes the label can blind us to important facts, argues Rajun Shah... Hindu Tolerance: Fact or Myth? - For a long time, 'tolerance' was spoken of as a characteristic feature of Hinduism... Poverty in Britain - Surprising statistics...
March 2006 In the shadows of the success story - While we take pride in our successes, are we forgetting some uncomfortable facts... Hinduism and globalisation - Globalisation is an important trend in the modern world... Hindus of the Caribbean - The winds of time have scattered Hindus to the most far-flung and unlikely places...
February 2006 Hindus and the BNP - The message left by the racist vandals is clear for all to see... Mohammed cartoon issues: rights & wrongs - the mass outrage in the Muslim world has been dominating... Protecting Krishna's land - The campaign to reverse the degradation of Braj...
January 2006 Editorial - Namaste & welcome to the first issue of Hindu Voice UK... Hindus, the "Tebbit Test" & Terrorism in London - Back in 1990 when former Conservative Chairman Lord Tebbit proposed the "Cricket Team Test" for ethnic minorities in the UK... Nepal in Crisis - A brief background to the current crisis in the world's only Hindu country... Russian Archishop offends Hindus by calling Lord Krishna an "evil demon"...
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