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Meet Hersh Khetarpal, an Exceptional Hindu Priestess in a Male-Dominated Profession

Hersh Khetarpal is the founding director of Yog Sadhan Ashram, located in West Chicago, which…

Castles, Castles and More Castles: My Perfect (and Insane) Road Trip Through Ireland and Northern Ireland

Ireland, I am going to say at the risk of sounding cliched, is green. But…

Totalitarianism on the Horizon: The Rise and Rise of Narendra Modi’s Morally Bankrupt India

This article is about the funk that I have been experiencing for the last few…

Hinduphobic Attacks in N.Y. and Calif.: Indian American Community Must Look at its Own Role in the Erasure of Hindu Voices

“Dirty…ugly Hindu,” the man spat while at the order counter in a Fremont, California Taco…

Yes, I Belong: Remembering the Long Journey to Fully Embracing the Mantle of Our American Identity

One spring morning four years ago, my wife and I took time off work and…

Bollywood v K-pop: The Yearning Gap in Cultural Connection Between Young South Asian and East Asian Americans

The term Asian Americans is so generic that it glosses over dozens of distinct ethnicities…

Bela, Batool and Bilkis: Why Remember Partition? And What to Remember?

There have been many in India and Pakistan (and what eventually became Bangladesh) who have…

India@75: Reflections on How I was Inspired by My Mother and Mother India

When a family emergency called me to Hyderabad, I cleared my calendar to make a…

A Passage to America: Three Decades Later My Mother Lets Go of Antipodal Achings

This evening feels perfect because it is neither new nor old, neither disorienting nor dull.…

13 Reasons Why Natasha Noman’s Review of Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ is Hinduphobic Trash

For readers who aren’t familiar with Netflix’s love-to-hate reality show, “Indian Matchmaking,” it centers Sima Taparia,…

India’s Supreme Court is Complicit in Modi Government’s Crackdown on Activists, Say Whistleblowers, Lawyers, Victims

Human rights defenders targeted by India’s criminal justice system have accused the Supreme Court of…

Liberating Sampradaya: 75 Years After India’s Independence, a Lost Generation Recovers its Hindu Faith

In 2004 I was dispatched to India to cover the aftermath of the devastating tsunami,…

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