Analysis/Insights

With the ‘Hindu heathen pagan savages’ still existing, it’s not surprising that Salman Rushdie is now going on a Hindu bash trip as Hinduphobia is normalised in the world across all political spectrums. The danger that lies in all this, at some point, especially if one knows Hindu history, is that Hinduism and Hindus survived [...]

From the movie Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016) where during the Iraq war, US Staff Sergeant Virgil ‘Shroom’ Breem (Vin Diesel) quotes Bhagavad-Gita to Private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn). He discusses karma and quotes Krishna (divinity) as he spoke to the great warrior Arjuna, while also serving as Arjuna’s chariot driver. Krishna was trying [...]

The Hindus, also being the largest surviving indigenous 'pagan heathen' people on the planet who survived, still need to take permission from a colonial political class and its courts to decide if they can light an ancient sacred flame or not, because it might offend the arab colonised slaves, which this issue is really all [...]

During the ‘Neeru Bandi Utsavam’ ritual festival’s final day, held at the Kukke Subrahmanya Temple in Karnataka.  The elephant at the temple, who often plays with water with Hindu kids and adults, was suddenly met with a policeman trying to spoil the fun, who then ended up meeting instant karma when Pandit Elephant sahib got [...]

An Indian family with a toddler was among the victims of a pepper-spray attack during a boat ride on San Antonio’s River Walk. The boat operator asked the woman to lower her phone volume; afterwards, she stepped off the boat and suddenly sprayed pepper spray at the passengers. At least eight people were affected. She [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! But how to find gratitude when the holiday itself feels so complicated — or when life feels heavy? Thanksgiving brings together joy and pain: a day dedicated to gratitude wrapped in a history of violence that requires reparations, a tradition that kills millions of animals, and family conflicts or loneliness that can make [...]

Here, Professor Vamsee Juluri responds to a recent CNN news story about the right-wing racists among the MAGA who have been targeting Indians all year with racist abuse nonstop. In the news story, CNN use evidence from reports by ‘specialists’, raising the recent racism. But, further in the pages, as expected, these ‘experts’ expose their [...]

In recent years, major climate summits have seen growing frustration from frontline communities who bear the real cost of ecological destruction. Indigenous activists across the world now openly challenge world leaders for negotiating the planet’s survival without those who protect its last living ecosystems. This is not mere activism — it is a civilizational warning. A growing [...]

While the founding members ensured the United States would be a secular republic—separating church and state—they did so with the bloody lessons of Europe in mind. The Christian civil war between Protestants and Catholics over which version of the “one true God” would prevail culminated in the Thirty Years’ War, one of the deadliest conflicts [...]

During the Halloween season, Rutgers University, under a Michael Myers mask of freedom of academic expression, held its ‘Hindutva in America. A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism’ debate on the 27th October, chaired by Audery Truschke, with her round table of non-Hindus to discuss this biggest threat to humanity known as ‘Hindutva’ being far [...]