Dhirendra Krishna Shastri of Bageshwar Dham is a powerful voice for Hindu India
In August 2022, I was flying from Khajuraho to Delhi. Khajuraho is a small airport, and the passengers walk to the plane. A woman, walking next to me, pointed to a young Swami near us, “We are so...
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Book review of the girl from Kathua? by Maria Wirth
Many Indians will remember the girl from Kathua, whose alleged gangrape and murder got huge media coverage in the spring of 2018, comparable only to the huge media coverage of Nirbhaya in 2012. In...
View ArticleSince there is of course only ONE creator, why don’t Hindus, Muslims and...
This is a most sensible question. But why does it not happen? Why don’t they sit together and solve their differences? The reason is that two of the three religions, Islam and Christianity, demand...
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Is this a declaration of war on Hindus and their Dharma?
By Maria Wirth It’s finally out in the open even within India and Hindus must not ignore it: the call to eradicate Sanatana Dharma. The attitude “Sanatana Dharma is eternal. Nobody can eradicate it” is...
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Can you explain to me what Hinduism is about?
By Maria Wirth At a seminar where Hinduism related topics were discussed, I asked some students during tea break, “Can you explain to me what Hinduism is about?” There was an awkward silence. After a...
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Is Hinduism a religion or a way of life? By Maria Wirth
It is often said, Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life. Or is it a religion? What is true? It depends on how religion is defined. Most people probably would say that religion is: about...
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Is there rivalry between Buddhism and Hinduism? By Maria Wirth
Prince Siddhartha, who was later called Buddha, was a Hindu. He didn’t promote “Buddhism”. Emperor Ashoka, who was born a few centuries later, promoted Buddhism. He wanted his subjects to follow what...
View ArticleThank You India
Maria’s Wirth book is an ode to India and its wisdom. Stumbling into India on an accidental layover 1980, she got drawn into a seeker’s journey, searching for truth and encountering the many remarkable...
View ArticleA question by a Muslim about Hindu Dharma
I was clearing my inbox from old mails. One mail was from 2016, written by someone with a Muslim name. He wrote: Seriously mam, did you think that, Hindu faiths and beliefs are correct, did you find...
View ArticleSri Ram’s help is needed against today’s Ravanas
Something big is happening in Bharat after 500 long years. Common sense says that it should have happened much earlier. Latest in 1947, when India was partitioned on religious lines and Indians who had...
View ArticleWhy are many Hindus condemning only their own and ignore those who committed...
While clearing my mail inbox, I found the following mail from 2016, written by one Subbiah and my reply to him: Dear Ms Wirth: While celebrating the glory of Hinduism, please have a heart for the...
View ArticleVedic wisdom needs to be lived
There are many born Hindus who know much more about Vedic wisdom than I do, but sometimes it is easier for an outsider to see the most important aspects of an incredibly rich, an incredibly vast...
View ArticleCertain forces want to prevent humans from knowing their divine inner Essence...
How do I come to the conclusion that certain forces want to prevent humans from knowing their divine Essence and connecting with it? By observing what happened over time and especially in the last 2...
View ArticleThe alleged gang rape of a Spanish woman biker in India. And how fiercely...
In the first week of March, it seemed to be a free-for-all in attacking India in general and Hinduism in particular. What had happened? Here is what I gleaned from news sources. In an isolated area in...
View ArticleAyurveda, Baba Ramdev and Germany
I wrote this article in 1990 for a German magazine. It was very well received, and the chikitsalaya in Coimbatore received lots of requests from Germans for study and treatment. Moreover, a German...
View ArticleHinduism is misunderstood all over the world. Because Hindus don’t articulate...
In recent weeks, two big American influencers, Russel Brand and Candace Owen, declared that they got baptized. Others, who are Christians like Tucker Carlson, keep stressing the importance of...
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British loot of India. Should India not demand reparations? By Maria Wirth
Madhu Kishwar had invited me to her channel to talk about the above topic, after I had tweeted that 2 tribes in Namibia filed some years ago a class action suit against Germany for atrocities during...
View Articleक्या आप मुझे बता सकते हैं कि हिन्दू धर्म क्या है?
एक सभा में, जिसमें हिन्दुइस्म से संबंधित विषयों पर चर्चा हो रही थी, मैंने कुछ छात्रों से चाय के समय पूछा कि “क्या कोई मुझे बता सकता है कि हिंदूइस्म क्या होता है?” थोड़ी असहज सी शांति छा गई. कुछ देर...
View ArticleIndian women: no longer the most beautiful?
The German philosopher Hegel (1770 – 1831) didn’t have a high opinion of Indians, in contrast to most of his German colleagues. He even claimed that the character of Indians is “cunning and deceitful...
View ArticleOnly in India – Amazing social harmony during Mahakumbh 2025
“Such a huge festival and so peaceful, this would be impossible in Germany. There would be alcohol and brawls”, a German student told me once during a previous Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. The present Kumbh...
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