Caste: Some Alternative Narratives
Image Courtesy: trunicle.com Introduction The classical conception of the so-called “caste system,” as Jalki and Pathan (2015) explicate, evolved and consolidated in colonial-missionary writings, and ... Read More
This Month in Hinduphobia — December 2022
Note: Handles were selected based on validated content. Introduction This monthly report, based on data collected from Hindumisia.ai, enables readers, commentators, activists, and the media ... Read More
Dear NYT, Leicester Tensions have roots in Weaponized Social Media, not in India
Photo Courtesy: The Telegraph, UK, and Reddit The day is August 28, 2022. Pakistan and India, participating in the Asia Cup cricket tournament in Dubai, ... Read More
The Status of Hindus in Malaysia: A Travelogue
Malaysian Hindus are fearful of speaking out against atrocities against them, frightened that the Muslim authorities may incriminate them and give them a hard time. ... Read More
Who Funds Anti-Hindu Bigotry? It is Time for the FBI, the CIA, and the NSC to Investigate
Image Courtesy: OpposingViews.com Labeling the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as “fascist,” “Hindu nationalist,” “extremist,” “Hindu supremacist,” “anti-Muslim,” etc., is now par for the supremacist, monopolist, ... Read More
The Roasting of Hindus at Brown U: You are Dark and We Will Make You Darker
Image courtesy: CNN.Com It is that time in this age of Kali Yuga that the roasting of Hindus in the vast cauldrons of the “Mullah-Missionary-Marxist” ... Read More
How Utilitarian Monotheistic Interpretation of Hinduism originates in Colonial Hindumesia
Recently, the former Lok Sabha Speaker and Union Minister Shivraj Patil claimed that Hinduism has a concept of “jihad” similar to the one in Islam. ... Read More
The Indian American Muslim Council is at it Again: Targeting of the Global Hindu Heritage Foundation
Image courtesy: istockphoto.com On November 27, 2022, the Global Hindu Heritage Foundation (GHHF) organized a dinner and fundraising event in Frisco, TX, a town that ... Read More
A Conference of the Crooked, Peddling Mischief, Provocation, and Lies
We were sent a “booklet,” an anti-Hindu screed, full of gory pictures, little data, or manufactured data so wild that there is no corroborative evidence ... Read More
Open Lies to the American People: The NYT as a Vessel for an Incendiary Advertisement
The Mahatma has been used for a variety of purposes, to serve a variety of ends, by a whole host of people in the world ... Read More
New Jersey Politics and the Attack on Hindu Americans: A Historical Lesson
(Image courtesy: Newstrack.com) In the Mahabharata, Yudhishthira is quoted as saying, “Forgiveness is dharma. Forgiveness is sacrifices. Forgiveness is the Vedas. Forgiveness is the sacred ... Read More
Open Letter to Audrey Truschke: The Ultimate Provocateur and Troll
Image Credit: Manushi *Editor’s Note: This essay/letter does not mention the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie by a knife-wielding twenty-four-year-old Muslim, Hadi Matar, on August ... Read More
This Month in Hinduphobia — July 2022
Download Pdf Here Introduction This monthly report is based on data culled from Hindumisia.ai that enables readers, commentators, scholars, and the media to understand the ... Read More
The Glory that was Bishnupur & The Sati Who Killed her Husband
Image Courtesy: Adotrip.com Author’s Note: This is a historical account of events that transpired in the Bishnupur region of Bengal, in the early 18th century. ... Read More
No Branches without Roots — An Understanding of Hindu Social Structure from the Outside-In – Part II
(Image courtesy: viewbug.com) Editor’s Note: Part I in this series of three articles can be read here. Part II – Community and Sanatana Civilization (Concepts ... Read More
Michael Witzel — The Perennial, Compulsive Liar — A Review of “Which of Us are Aryans?”
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published as a blog by the author on June 24, 2022, here: https://talageri.blogspot.com/2022/06/michael-witzel-perennial-compulsive-liar.html Am I indulging in "ad hominem" ... Read More
An Instance of Hinduphobia in Edwin Bryant’s “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”
(Image courtesy: businessinsider.in) It is unfortunate that most Yogasutra classes in universities, colleges, and yoga institutions happen through English in India. Teaching of the Yogasutras ... Read More
Cow Slaughter And The British Raj
(Image source: istockphoto.com ) “Though the Muhammadans’ cow killing is made the pretext for the agitation, it is in fact directed against us, who ... Read More
Reclaiming Yoga
(Image: istockphoto.com) In an interview with The Wall Street Journal recently Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that he uses non-sleep deep rest, or NSDR, ... Read More
“Secular” Distortions of The Syncretic Bengali Calendar
(Image: istockphoto.com) In recent years, it has become a tradition of sorts for certain online media portals to recycle old articles during major Hindu festivals ... Read More
Amy Waxes Incoherent: It is the Poison in the Ivies
(Picture credit: kolumbus24.com) Ah, yes! These days we cannot have even a moment’s respite from the world as we are constantly bombarded with the blathering, ... Read More
Holy Shit! – Manufactured
(Image courtesy: HuffPost India) The American Society of Microbiology on March 31 published a research paper titled “Are Unique Regional Factors the Missing Link in ... Read More
Dalit Narratives in the US: Fact and Fiction
(Image courtesy: janataweekly.org) Dalits are the new cause célèbre here in the United States of America, which now has become a new center for hatching ... Read More
India Facts – 2022 Fellowships — Announcement
We are pleased to offer ten fellowships this year, with durations of one month or three months. One-month Fellowships Number of fellowships: Five Duration of ... Read More
The Kashmir Files: An Inconvenient Truth
(Image courtesy: Reuters) Many in the diaspora who know of Birmingham, England, will be aware of its links to the Kashmir issue. In 1984, Indian ... Read More
Decolonization and Resurgence/Revival/Reawakening of Hindutva
(Image courtesy: Curlytales.com) Editor’s Note: Through the ages, Hindus, or whatever we have called ourselves, have been reformists. Some have compared Hinduism to an “open ... Read More
“The Kashmir Files” — A Review
This is a review, and not an advertisement or publicity piece of a truly revolutionary film by a truly great nationalist filmmaker. It is revolutionary ... Read More
An AI-Based Approach to Monitor, Expose, and Counter Anti-Hindu Hate
Anti-Hindu sentiment has been on the rise in recent years. It is a sentiment that advances, amplifies, and articulates hatred against Hindus and Hinduism (1). ... Read More
“India on the Brink”: An Agenda Driven “Summit” of Fearmongers and Mischief-makers
It was the same coterie of anti-India communists, leftists, and Muslim and Christian apologists and supremacists, with their same old anti-Hindu diatribes, that gathered at ... Read More
Recalibrating and Understanding Hindu Philosophy: God Does Not Play Dice
(Image courtesy: genius.com) Editor’s Note: Through the ages, Hindus, or whatever we have called ourselves, have been reformists. Some have compared Hinduism to an “open ... Read More
A “Summit” of Crooks, Criminals, Conspirators, and the Cussed: Hinduphobes Gather to Provoke, Once Again
Image Courtesy: dreamstime.com Tanks are rumbling into Kyiv/Kiev, missiles are raining down on the besieged capital, and world leaders are scrambling to figure out what ... Read More
God Save the Hindus: Need for a Constitutional Amendment
(Image courtesy: indusscrolls.com) The hijab controversy in Karnataka has now been referred to the full bench of the Karnataka High Court. Supporters of hijab wearing ... Read More
The Saptapadī Rite of the Hindu Wedding: A Modern Commentary
Photo/Image courtesy: Subir Adhikary Photography Editor’s Note: This article is in the series of articles on Hindu wedding ceremonies which we have published in response ... Read More
Bringing Caste Discrimination to American College Campuses: A Ploy to Fan Hinduphobia
(Image courtesy: onmanorama.com) “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr There are two kinds of controversies: one which ... Read More
Hijab: “Freedom” and “Rights” Under Cover
(Image courtesy: dnaindia.com) The Hijab row in Karnataka seems to be stirring more political hornets than enlightening us about the religious sanctity or its social ... Read More
Philology versus Misology
Introduction According to the ancient Greeks, philology is the study of ancient myths and tales to understand one’s true nature, specifically to understand whether one ... Read More
Islamic Sources and the Myth of Kamala Devi & Deval Devi
Character assassination of a medieval Hindu queen and a princess in modern historiography based on a preference of Islamic sources… Alauddin Khilji, the Sultan of ... Read More
What The Haridwar Conference Got Wrong
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Swarajya on January 12, 2022. Reprinted with permission. Let us not mince words. The Haridwar Sammelan was ... Read More
The Rise and Fall of the Hindu Mahasabha
INTRODUCTION The 20th century, in the history of India as well as that of the world, will always be remembered as a tumultuous century of ... Read More
“What Does it Mean to be ‘Indian’?” – A Review
Who do you think you are? Ask this question of the ordinary small town or rural vernacular-schooled Indian and they instinctively point to traditions, rituals, ... Read More
British Raj and the Defaming of India since the 1800s (III)
Editor’s Note: This is the third in the three-part series of articles summarizing Dharampal’s work on the British origins of demonizing and undermining India and ... Read More
The Haridwar Sannyasi Assembly: An Emergent Face of Hinduism
When we say “fundamental face” of a religion in this article, we mean that the “Means of Knowledge” is their scripture (Quran, Hadith, Bhagavad Gita, ... Read More