Analysis/Insights

In this video going viral, a mother stands beside her disabled son while gently encouraging and helping him to walk proudly on stage as the great warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. These scenes captured many hearts globally, seeing a boy rise with confidence thanks to his mother, but it’s also rooted in Hindu history and Hinduism, [...]

A Hindu soldier’s journey through the US Army took a disturbing turn when his religious identity became a target. Second Lieutenant Harish Rao, a Hindu of Indian origin, was reportedly barred from training and threatened with deportation back to India simply for wearing a tilak, a sacred Hindu mark. Removed from training and placed among [...]

Indian student Kautilya Pandit challenged Pakistan at the Oxford Union over its narrative on Kashmir demography. Kautilya said thousands of years of history were wiped out during the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. Kautilya Pandit directly targeted Pakistan, saying, “You reap what you sow,” and mocked its military strength saying “93,000 Pak soldiers surrendered in 1971, [...]

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 [...]