Most immigrant Indian parents in America are tightly focused on measuring their children’s progress through the lens of career success, and their child giving a speech. But they rarely stop to listen to their children or understand the fears and pressures they face from society, professors and peers because of their Hindu heritage. In this [...]
A discussion by Prof. Vamsee Juluri and Halley Kalyan on “Contemporary Hinduism – Horizontal Coercions Vs. Vertical Transmissions.” In this discussion, Prof. Vamsee Juluri and Halley Kalyan talk about the vertical inter-generational continuities baked into Hinduism in the form of ancestral traditions and contrast it with other religions and movements that have grown by breaking [...]