US Hindus

A kind message and thoughtful wedding gift sent by Prime Minister Modi on the occasion of Tulsi and Abraham’s recent wedding [...]

I send you my warmest aloha from Hawai’i. Every year, I eagerly look forward to the joyful celebration of Lord Krishna’s appearance in this world, Janmashtami. But this year, it is especially welcome because there seems to be so much darkness on the horizon. Newscasts are filled with stories of atrocities and terrorism being carried [...]

In a March 6th, 2014 interview on VCY America’s Crosstalk, Liberty Counsel chairman Mat Staver attacked President Obama for being “very pro-homosexual” and “pro-Muslim,” as well as for “doing more harm to our foundational, fundamental values than any president in American history.” Staver has a very extensive history of complaining that any display of tolerance [...]

Just days after the news broke that a Satanic Temple in New York City is seeking to build a monument to Satan on the grounds of the Oklahoma Capitol, a Hindu organization announced this week that it, too, would like to build a monument there, to one of its chief deities. Rajan Zed, president of [...]

My birth name is Chakia Ciara Harris. And I was born to Protestant parents. Throughout my life, I had to spend a lot of time in the church. I would sing, and go to Bible study, and participate in programs. From the outside looking in a person would think that my family was moral and [...]

“All men dream,” said T. E. Lawrence, “but not equally.” Artistic, introspective and questioning, even as a child it was clear to those around me that I was, in Lawrence’s terminology, a “dreamer of the day.” I disliked what I regarded as the shallow materialism and trivial ways people interacted in the West. But above [...]

I became a Hindu by increments. It didn’t happen over night of course. There was no one grand happening that changed my heart and mind. I was fortunate enough to have been raised by a psychology professor who practiced Yoga, meditation, pranayama and chanting; and studied Eastern philosophy and religion. So I grew up around [...]

I am an American like many other Americans, born into a family of mixed European and Native American ancestry. My interest in my own origins started early. I knew that my European ancestors were pagans who were converted to Abrahamic faiths, and that my Native ancestors were pagans mostly obliterated by those Europeans. I knew [...]

Already the younger generation asks what the California textbook affair was. Now that California has been endowed with a Hindu awareness month (in a resolution co-authored by the Hindu American Foundation, , the first one scheduled for this coming October, Hindus are enthusiastic that they will be able to show off their culture. But past [...]

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