Some people are trying to make the word Hindu "untouchable" and "intolerable", Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said Sunday as he stressed on the need of preserving the true values of Hinduism to alter "ill-informed" opinions and attitudes. In his keynote address to the concluding session of the second World Hindu Congress here, Naidu said India believed in universal tolerance and accepted all religions as true.

Share and care is the core of the Hindu philosophy, he said, outlining the important aspects of Hinduism. Naidu rued that a lot of disinformation (about Hinduism) is going around. "Some people are trying to make the very word Hindu untouchable, intolerable. That's why, one has to articulate and see the values that espouse and present the bucket of ideas in correct perspective so that the world has the most authentic perspective," he said.