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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 [...]

The tallest Murthi- Statue of Lord Rama in North America was unveiled at the Hindu Heritage Centre in Mississauga, Canada. Standing 51 feet tall, the murthi was inaugurated with  chants of “Jai Shri Ram”, and flower petals, attracting over 10,000 devotees and dignitaries, including Canadian cabinet ministers, opposition leaders, and representatives from the Indian Consulate. [...]

There’s no doubt about the global impact of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living across the world, where its spiritual teachings and practices have benefited millions across the world, along with doing great service for the public. Along with being a target of Hinduphobes, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has often defended the Hindu side. [...]

Usha Vance recently, in an interview, talked about how her children have the choice to decide whether they want to be baptised Catholics as they grow up, as mentioned here,  “So what we’ve ended up doing is we send our kids to Catholic school, and we have given them each the choice, right? They can [...]

Namit Malhotra, whose VFX studio DNEG company and its team provided visual effects for Hollywood blockbusters like Blade Runner 2049, Tenet, Inception, Interstellar and the two Dune films. Now bring the Ramayana to life soon. Over the last 10 years, DNEG has won eight Oscars, seven of those being for Best Visual Effects, so what’s [...]

What AI Oprah Winfrey points out is overall true, as Hindu thought and practices are expanding rapidly across the globe, especially after mixing and meeting with many different people from across the world and their deep interest in Hinduism. Which is also the reason we have a whole army of Hinduphobic fascists like Christian right-winger [...]

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 [...]