Hindu Beliefs and Practices
Image courtesy: Quora (Not imposing my worldview on others is Hinduism. Not accepting others imposing their worldview on me is Hindutva). Following a request from ... Read More
“Western Media: Narratives on India from Gandhi to Modi” — A Review
Overall, this is a good effort, but it offers an uneven account of the long arc of Western coverage of India from independence to the ... Read More
Ram Mandir: Cultural Production or Cultural Renaissance?
Image courtesy: The Economist The consecration of the Ram Lalla idol in Ayodhya was unparalleled in that the entire nation united in welcoming it. Across ... Read More
A Critique of Amanda Lucia’s “Guru Sex”
Image courtesy: Vedanta-Red Zimbala As an embittered student who never got a scholarship to study in Britain, my academic fulminations against Western scholars of Hindu ... Read More
Finding Shiva in the Ashes: Meenakshi Jain’s Epic Reconstruction of the Timeless City
Reading Padma Shri Meenakshi Jain is an exercise in discovery and delightful insights. Her works spanning over multiple decades now can be grouped into three ... Read More
“The Majoritarian Myth” – A Review and a Summary
“The Majoritarian Myth: How Unscientific Social Theories Create Disharmony,” is a new book by Kausik Gangopadhyay, a Professor of Economics at IIM-Kozhikode. The book brilliantly ... Read More
The Hindu Right and the Hindu Liberal: Where They Meet
Image courtesy: Agence France-Presse India is a country where you can be a ‘right-oriented’ person in the country and yet be considered of a ‘left ... Read More
Reinventing Bharat’s Dharmic Consciousness: A Journey Under Narendra Modi’s Captaincy
Image Courtesy: YouTube India, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, has embarked on a transformative journey to rediscover and assert its dharmic roots, addressing the ... Read More
Indic Religions: Challenges For Survival
Introduction India is a peculiar cauldron of many religions, where the 'majority' religion has managed to survive despite many attacks on it. Islam and Christianity ... Read More
An Assessment of Anti-Hindu Sentiments in the Digital Era
Image Courtesy: Swarajya Magazine Introduction In this digital age, social media platforms have become crucibles for the expression of diverse viewpoints, including those about religious ... Read More
Nepal Needs to Restore Monarchy
Picture Courtesy: Times of India Nepal has a great history, and its people have a unique role to play in shaping the contemporary economic and ... Read More
Rewriting History: Ganesh Devy Puts Pali on a Pedestal, Sanskrit on a Stool
Image Courtesy: Madras Courier Frontline, a fortnightly magazine from Chennai, published an article titled “Why Pali Lost Out and Sanskrit Received More than its Due,” ... Read More
A Case Study of Riots in India: Piercing the “Secular” Veil
Image courtesy: The Sunday Guardian Prime Minister Modi’s four-day state visit to the United States in June this year was marked by a state dinner ... Read More
The Concerted Global Effort to Discredit Hindus and India: Tackling the Challenge
Image courtesy: India Narrative Note: This is a slightly edited version of a chapter I wrote for the book “Found Decades of Hindu Renaissance” published ... Read More
Colonial Consciousness: Consequences for the Nation and the Way Forward – Part 3
Image courtesy: nasheman.in Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here Ignoring Indian Philosophy Philosophy deals with the most engaging questions for humanity related to ... Read More
Colonial Consciousness: Narratives of Caste, Religion, and Secularism – Part 2
Image courtesy: history.howstuffworks.com Read Part 1 here, and Part 3 here… The Caste System The Ghent School of Scholars demonstrates how the caste story in ... Read More
Colonial Consciousness: The Background, The Important Narratives — Part 1
Image courtesy of: Dcc.Newberry.org Disclaimer: This essay is mostly based on the works of Dr. S.N. Balagangadhara Rao and the Ghent School of Scholars. This ... Read More
The Fate of Hindus in Hindu-majority India — “Hindus in Hindu Rashtra” – A Review
Hindus in Hindu Rashtra, Anand Ranganathan, BluOne Ink, First Edition (January 1, 2023). This book is essential reading for every conscientious follower of the dharmic ... Read More
Brahmin Genocide? A Review
Editor's Note: This review was originally published here. We thank R. Jagannathan and Swarajya Magazine for permission to republish it. We thought this review, in ... Read More
Why Is Hindu Indian Civilization Stonewalled in Western Academic Studies?
Note: This article was originally published here -- https://talageri.blogspot.com/2023/10/why-is-hindu-indian-civilization.html "Why Is Hindu Indian Civilization so calculatedly and systematically stonewalled in Western Academic Studies?" This is ... Read More
Hindumisia in Indian Academia
In an interview with the French state-owned TV news network France 24 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Delhi, an IIT Delhi faculty ... Read More
The First, Major Reckoning!
SB403 is dead! The global conclave of Islamists, Christian conservatives, Khalistanis, Left-Marxist Extremists, Suppers at the Soros Trough, the social justice warriors masquerading as journalists ... Read More
The Kerala Story: A Repeat of Muslim Concubinage, Seduction, and Violence
Image Courtesy: blogtalkradio.com Release of the film, The Kerala Story, in May 2023, invigorated public discussions on the issue of “Love Jihad”. Derided as a ... Read More
Islamophilia in Bharat – The Obverse of Hinduphobia
Image courtesy: Huffintonpost.co.uk In India, people appear to have succumbed en masse to a strange psychic cultural disorder. When it comes to the subject of ... Read More
The Attacks on Hindus: A Global Strategem
Image courtesy: Entitymag.com This essay, under a different title, was published in the book titled, “Four Decades of Hindu Renaissance” earlier this year. In the ... Read More
America’s Dangerous Obsession with Religious Conflict in India
Image courtesy of -- NDTV.com When Prime Minister Modi was in the United States of America over a month ago in June, former US President ... Read More
ARYAA: An Anthology of Vedic Women
Image Courtesy: Amazon.in Aryaa is a brilliant celebration of women in Ancient India. A retelling of the famous female characters of Indian texts, it enthralls, ... Read More
Man, Woman, and Machine — Part 3
Image Courtesy: YouTube.com Part 1 can be read here, and Part 2 can be read here Prologue Readers who have read this earlier essay1 of ... Read More
Man, Woman, and Machine — Part 2
Image courtesy: Affarimedia.com Prologue (Read Part I, here) I have a feeling some kind of disclaimer is due. My fight is not the 19th-century fight ... Read More
Hindus: The Last Line of Defense
Picture courtesy: IndiaToday The coordination by the Left, Muslim, Christian, and a multitude of anti-Hindu groups is indeed noteworthy for its extreme proficiency. Such coordination ... Read More
Man, Woman, and Machine — Part I
Image, courtesy: look.com.ua Chapter 1 Man, Woman, and Ardhanareeshwara We are not enemies. We are allies. Ours is no battleground… what we have is a ... Read More
Dawkins’ Provocative Ignorance
Image, courtesy: ograndedialogo.blogsport.com First things first. The theory of evolution, along with genetics and cell theory, constitutes the bedrock upon which the worldview and research ... Read More
Indology and Indologists – Flattering to Deceive: Part II
Image, courtesy of: aptitudeamplifier.blogpost.com In Part I of this two-part article, we saw the growth of Indological studies spurred by the Protestant scholars in German ... Read More
Indology and Indologists – Flattering to Deceive — Part I
Picture courtesy: Indology Academy Introduction India has fascinated foreigners since time immemorial. Many travelled to India, spent much time, sought to study and report on ... Read More
Targeting Hindus and India: The Deep State and its Collaborators
Image courtesy of: copticssolidarity.org Editor’s Note: This report draws on the original report by DisInfo Labs. We offer an introduction, and we have edited the ... Read More
Love Jihad — The Kerala Story
Image, courtesy of: marathi.hindusthanpost.com The Kerala Story is a poignant, evocative, and deeply disturbing story of “love jihad” where radicalized Muslims systematically target, seduce, convert, ... Read More
The Idea of Bharat – In the Line of Fire, In the Age of Hybrid Warfare
Image Courtesy: letude-marseille.com ‘Wars have ceased to become effective instruments to achieve political and military objectives. They are too expensive, unaffordable, and there is uncertainty ... Read More
Hindu Demonization: Orchestrated, Engineered, Potted Plots
Image courtesy: nbcnews.com The tsunami of anti-Hindu, anti-Hindutva, anti-Hinduism articles, reports, commentaries, and editorials over the past few years, reaching a crescendo now, has been ... Read More
Nations, Nationalism, and India as a Nation
Image Courtesy: kractivist.org Editor’s note: Part of the Hinduphobic discourse involves the strident denial of any uniquely organized society and a civilizational entity within the ... Read More
Muslim and Hindu Perspectives on How Indian Law Should Function
Image courtesy: Indiatimes.com I. Vellore Ibrahim; His stance on Muslim Violence; Difference of Opinion Vellore Ibrahim is the National Secretary (Minority Morcha) of the Bharatiya ... Read More
Dismantling Global Hindutva: Shall We Continue to Wait?
Image Courtesy: strafasia.com (A version of this article was first published here: https://talageri.blogspot.com/2023/04/dismantling-global-hindutva.html ) An International Virtual Conference on "Dismantling Global Hindutva" was held between ... Read More
“Gramscian Organic Intellectuals” – Innocuous or a Potentially Dangerous Threat to India?
Image Courtesy: notevenpast.org A few years ago, Jack Dorsey, former Twitter CEO, triggered a controversy when he, along with a group of Indian women, held ... Read More
The Ten Heads of Ravana: Identifying the Facets of Hinduphobia
Malhotra, R., & Divya, R. (Eds.) (2023). Ten Heads of Ravana: A Critique of Hinduphobic Scholars. Gurugram: Garuda Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. Hinduphobia is real, deep, ... Read More
Islamism in US Politics: Examining a Proposed Massachusetts Bill and Islamist Propaganda Tactics
Image Courtesy: blog.timesofisrael.com The Massachusetts State Senate is currently considering a bill petitioned by State Senator James Eldridge that proposes to establish a commission that ... Read More
Rejecting the Myth of the Aryans: A Primer — Part II
Image, courtesy of: goyimtv.com The dominant story about ancient India is the AIT (Aryan Invasion Theory) or its softer version, AMT (Aryan Migration Theory). The ... Read More
America and the Paradox of Anti-Caste Activism
Image Courtesy: Localtoday.news On February 21 the Seattle City Council voted 6-1 to put caste among the banned categories in its non-discrimination policy. The Council, ... Read More
This Month in Hinduphobia — February 2023
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
Artha, Kama, Moksha — And a Gaping Hole in the Middle: What Would You Choose, Modern Hindus?
Image Courtesy: YouTube.com The correct, non-contradictory way to live is to accept the existential truth that if we love something, we must also support the ... Read More
Canada’s Hijab-ed, Bearded, and Turbaned: Their Latest Anti-Hindu, Anti-India Caper
Image Courtesy: blogs.tribune.com.pk Canada’s population is about forty million, and of those forty million about five percent are Muslim. Wikipedia informs us that the first ... Read More
Hindutva – Caste – Race: Snakes at Deakin University, Australia
Image courtesy: scholarship-positions.com Deakin University, in Melbourne, Australia is one of the prestigious research institutions in the world named after the founding father and second ... Read More
A (T)Radical Critique of Modernity — Sanatana Exceptionalism in the Light of Modernity
Image -- Courtesy of -- Pinterest Coming to Grips The family is in steep decline, but nobody knows it. On the contrary, we have been ... Read More
Non-Brahmins themselves Responsible for the Caste System: Dr. B R Ambedkar
Image courtesy of: OpIndia.com A recent statement made by RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat that pandits (the priestly class) created the caste system has stirred up ... Read More
This Month in Hinduphobia — January 2023
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
History and Historicity in Veda – Itihāsa – Purāṇas
Image courtesy of: Itisaras.org Editor’s note: We Hindus are constantly told that we have nothing like historical consciousness, that we do not have any detailed ... Read More
Why “Itihaasa” means “History”
Image, courtesy of: indianhistory-gk.blogspot.com Editor’s note: We Hindus are constantly told that we have nothing like historical consciousness, that we do not have any detailed ... Read More
When Did Christianity Come to India? A Review of “Unmasking the Syriacs”
It is a fact that Hinduism, in all its aspects, is purely Indian, while Christianity is undoubtedly a foreign religion in India. The further fact ... Read More
Myth, History, Itihaasa, and the Hindu Dilemma
Image Courtesy: amisdblogspot.com Editor’s note: We Hindus are constantly told that we have nothing like historical consciousness, that we do not have any detailed and ... Read More
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
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