With Canada’s 500,000 Hindus celebrating Diwali throughout this week, the awkward topic of the religion’s swastika symbol has again arisen. One young North American Hindu has confessed in a ...

The equilateral cross with legs bent at right angles – that looks like swirling arms or a pattern of L shapes – has been a holy symbol in Hinduism ... movement of the sun through the sky ...

The symbol, however, had been held by different parties and candidates. Reports in The Hindu point out how the Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad staked a claim for the ‘rising sun’ in New ...