PERSPECTIVES

Examining My Brown Privilege: Confronting Otherness Through an Assumption About Homeownership

The sun shines magnificently on the wrap-around deck of our new home in Westchester, New…

An Aggrieved Parent’s Open Letter to Universities That Participated in the Conference on ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’

“Hindutva is inseparable without Hinduism. Arguments that Hindutva is not Hinduism are deeply dangerous”

Anatomy of Hinduphobia: Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference is Really about Silencing Hindus

Early in March of 2021, a group of Hindu students from across the U.S., Canada, and…

Will Taliban’s Triumph in Afghanistan Encourage Other Islamist Groups to Up the Ante in Kashmir?

Al-Qaeda praised the Taliban for their victory in Kabul on August 31, only hours after…

Dragon by the Tail: India Must Rethink its Strategic Policy to Counter China’s Push for Regional Influence

China and India have been at odds. Last year, skirmishes broke out between Indian and…

Be Brave, Little State: My Surreal Multicultural Life, Love and Marriage

This past August, I married the love of my life on the shores of Lake…

The Talibanization of Hindutva is Complete. Just Look at the Extremists’ Response to Academic Conference Participants

What was billed as one of the largest virtual conferences — cosponsored by the South…

Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference Proved That Intellectual Incompetence Begets Intellectual Violence

On September 11, 2021, the United States mourned and remembered victims of 9/11 on its…

Seeking Begumpura: The Life and Legacy of American Anti-Caste Icon Gail Omvedt

Can scholarship be an act of love? This is the question I and many others…

Accidental Capitalists? Role of Mentoring in the Rise of Indian Americans in Silicon Valley

The election of Kamala Harris as the first woman and first Asian American as Vice…

9/11 is a Date Which Will Live in Infamy. So Does Any Day That My Dad Faces Extra Scrutiny From the TSA

September 11, 2001, 9:00 AM. Sitting in Ms. Reed’s fifth-grade classroom, about 25 miles west…

9/11, 1893: When Swami Vivekananda Spoke of a Tolerant Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago

“I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance…