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By Kishan Bhatt NHSF PR Team
The National Hindu Students Forum (UK) are taking a leaping
initiative at their next annual conference entitled The Hindu Times: Be The
News You Wish To See to be held on Saturday 21st November at the
City University, London. The conference is to tackle the misconceptions of the
Hindu faith that are common to the wider world and to teach the future of our
community the opportunities to act. The conference will be split up into
spirituality, the Hindu community (samaj) and politics. The workshops on
spirituality are to educate students on whether or not the Ramayana and Mahabharata
are still relevant or just myths based on fiction. The Hindu community workshops
aim to explore caste discrimination, the inequality of men and women and
whether or not our Hindu dharma is becoming too bollywoodised. The political workshops will speak out
directly on the most current political issues such as the underrepresentation
of Hindus in British politics, the rise of the BNP and its affect on the Hindu
Community and the human rights and civil rights that should be invested to
Hindus around the world. The educating, exploring and empowering form part of the
core aim to get our students to stand up and speak up on some of the most
important issues that will govern the future of our Hindu community. That to me
is real politics! For too long now the Hindu community has been passive, silent
and inactive. It is this inactiveness and passiveness that has taken the Hindu
community for granted on so many different levels from the misconceptions of
Idol worshipping to caste discrimination and the misguided representation of
Hindus in British political life. Students tell me that they may never see a
Hindu Prime Minister yet I see Obama as the first African-American President.
There are far too many choices and decisions that need to be made correctly and
this conference will engage with these choices and decisions with the people
that influence this country.
Baroness Verma, Virendra Sharma MP and Seema Malhotra
(Former Chair of the Young Fabians) are all speaking on the day by giving
workshops and taking part in a Question Time panel that will address the issues
discussed at the conference and enable our students to fire questions at them. Keith
Vaz MP, Barry Gardiner MP, Angela Watkinson MP and other senior politicians and
figures are also attending on the day. Tony Blair, former Prime Minister, will
be providing us with his views on the conference through a video link.
The conference will pave the way for a variety of hopeful
initiatives to engineer the Hindu community and its students to be more active
on issues that affect us most.
If you are interested in attending please visit www.nhsf.org.uk/hindutimes for
further information and opportunities to register.
Alternatively, please contact
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