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The Sri Venkateswara Temple in Cary, North Carolina, was damaged after a sacred guardian deity statue was vandalised. The incident happened around 3 a.m.. Police are reviewing CCTV footage and searching for five suspects captured on the security camera footage. Community leaders strongly condemned the act and showed support for the temple. The incident has [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Real Hinduism, as per Hinduism, is activism on the ground as clearly stated in Hindu scriptures and acted by warrior Hindus in the past, with even the Gods setting the example themselves when they come into this human world, which the majority of Hindus and temples still haven’t worked out which is why they have [...]

While the Hinduphobic left-wing WOKEistanis are taking a nap, the right-wing Hinduphobic MAGAstanis have gone Dotbuster mode like in the 80s/90s over an Indian American Hindu lawyer, Mathura Sridharan, who has been appointed as solicitor general for the United States of America’s Ohio state by its Attorney General Dave Yost on Thursday, July 31.  This [...]

Near to some of the locations of the movie Jurassic Park lies a beautiful Hindu temple. Hidden in the lush rainforests of Kauai, Hawaii, lies one of the most sacred and unexpected spiritual sites in the United States—a Hindu monastery where American monks worship a rare 700-pound crystal Shiva Lingam. This video explores the Kauai [...]

Virginia has enacted House Bill 2783, criminalising Nazi symbols used to intimidate, while protecting the sacred Swastika from misrepresentation. The law, effective July 1, clearly distinguishes Hitler’s Hakenkreuz from the ancient Swastika, revered in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Advocacy by CoHNA led to critical amendments. The bill now sets a national precedent, balancing hate prevention [...]