Global Hindus

Unseen Ingredients, Unseen Harm: Why Costco Must Address Ethical Gaps in Its Sampling Program In December 2025, an incident at the Costco @Costco warehouse in Lawrenceville, New Jersey revealed a troubling blind spot in the company’s food sampling program—one that risks violating the religious and ethical dietary practices of many of its members. During a [...]

India has condemned the demolition of a Hindu deity statue in Cambodia after visuals showed a Lord Vishnu statue being destroyed in a disputed border area near Preah Vihear. The statue, built in 2014, was located in the An Ses region and the incident comes amid rising tensions between Cambodia and Thailand. India said Hindu [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, London celebrated its first-ever Kukur Tihar, the sacred Day of the Dogs.  Grateful beyond words for the kind and beautiful souls I’m surrounded by. Our stories, beliefs, paths, and backgrounds may differ, yet our hearts beat with the same unconditional love — the heart of the dog. From beautiful puja rituals and flower garlands [...]

 Diwali 2025 greetings were sent to Hindus by leaders across the globe like never before. In the UK, along with political leaders, all major football clubs also sent out their Diwali greetings. In the US, Republican and Democratic leaders sent out their Diwali greetings. But also when FBI chief Kash Patel and DNI Chief Tulsi [...]

We are seeing the recent attacks on American Hindus for their festivals by Christian right-wingers, saying the USA is a Christian country, even though the founding fathers of the US rejected that, knowing the church’s long history. And then, since when has the USA been part of the Middle East, where Christianity is from? So [...]