hinduphobic racism

Norway’s largest top newspaper, Aftenposten displayed a typical historical Hinduphobic racist cartoon showing the Indian PM Narendra Modi as a Snake charmer playing a flute  to ‘charm’ a snake shaped like a fuel pump nozzle during his diplomatic visit to Oslo, with the headline: “A sneaky and slightly annoying man” by Journalist Frank Rossavik some [...]

A speech by US comedian and conservative YouTuber Alex Stein at a Plano City Council meeting triggered sharp backlash after he mocked core Hindu religious beliefs, with several Indian-American attendees exiting the chamber in protest. The episode has ignited a wider debate about cultural respect and rising anti-Indian sentiment online and in parts of the [...]

The arrest or some would say kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife Cilia Adela Flores, from Venezuela to the USA by the US government, is mainstream news, especially how hoodie-dressed Maduro prep walked with police officers through New York City, the birthplace of Hip Hop, seemed so happy without a care, as he [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

With the global outrage and media coverage over Charlie Kirk's death, other brutal murders took place with hardly any coverage, which is not surprising with the continuing racism and dehumanisation of Indians, with several attacked, killed, and temples attacked, along with the rise of Hinduphobia via academia/media from the left and the right in the [...]

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 [...]

Vamsee Juluri is a professor of media studies at the University of San Francisco and has spent many years studying one critical thing – why is India so rarely able to get its story out in the Western media with honesty? Why does India keep losing the narrative war?  Follow Global Order In this conversation [...]

Recently, well-known YouTube political commentator and stand-up comedian Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore , while reacting to President Trump's false claims about a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, mocked the Indian side's reaction to Trump's comical claim. [...]