Analysis/Insights

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 [...]

What Hindus in the US have failed, is to expose Audrey Truschke, who is a hardcore far-right Christian fundamentalist who often, like others, aligns with hardcore Islamists in their joint hate against Hindus and Jews. This is the classic case of both using each other as useful idiots. She also uses leftist white supremacist academic [...]

Of course, we want to see eternal peace in the Middle East and across the world, but we know this whole war against Israel is really about eliminating Jews from the world, which is why often those who convert to Islam are classed as 'reverts'. This is to claim that Islam was first in the [...]

India has taken a historic step to reopen its embassy in Kabul and formally host a Taliban delegation in New Delhi, marking a diplomatic thaw unseen since the regime’s return in 2021. Yet, as trade routes and pragmatic alliances open up, questions of conscience arise. Can India deepen ties with a regime that once marked [...]

In reality, the October 27th, Hindutva In America A Threat To The Universe event at Rutgers University is a golden opportunity sent by the Gods for Hindus in the US to take advantage by using this to get a mass rally of thousands of Hindus there protesting against this hinduphobic nazi conference. [...]