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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs Dhwajarohan (Hindu ceremony for hoisting a saffron flag) on the Shikhar-Top of the sacred Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Mandir-Temple in Ayodhya. As reported, the symbolism of the ceremony represents  deeper meanings where, ‘Every kingdom has a flag. Every belief has its flag, and the Sanatan Dharma here in Ayodhya, represented by [...]

US hospitals will be facing an emergency peak of patients from the Christian club within the MAGA crowd, suffering from serious heart palpitations triggered by extreme anger after they witnessed their President’s son, Donald Trump Jr’s, satanic activities in India, the land of sand demons and pagans, in the following videos that have gone viral.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  India in Pixels @indiainpixels is proud to host the first Rigved Hackathon. We invite you to build anything from a web app to data viz to mantra visualizer to a mobile app that can help a beginner appreciate the RigVed in a whole new way. Thanks to the generous support of iip’s community on [...]