I remember how it felt when they would arrive from India, those baby blue missives, so thin and painfully delicate. Only Amma’s hand was sure and steady enough to safely guide the letter opener into the tiny slot and carefully open the unperforated edges, bursting open the news from the…

I have been watching the disturbing attacks from American anti-racists on Asra Nomani, an Indian American Muslim, on Twitter. One person — Pamela — in particular, appears to have taken this up with great fervor. …

I immigrated here from India forty years ago and I have only experienced Hinduphobia once, when I first moved here. I was in a park, and some lady and her daughters looked at me in a funny way. Also, don’t you think that the reason we experience Hinduphobia is because…

Learning to distinguish between discourses and spaces that are trauma-informed and those that are trauma-led may help us all. A prerequisite to this, of course, is learning to recognize the trauma in us, around us, and in others. Trauma sits lodged in our psyches, shrapnel from battles with natural catastrophes…

Some of my fondest childhood memories were those special days when I would get off the big yellow bus at the end of the school day and see Amma standing in the doorway in a sari, waiting for us, her beauty radiating in that special way an Amma looks to…

On September 11, 2019, following an overtly Hinduphobic tweet by NPR’s Furkan Khan, I started a petition appealing to NPR to demonstrate greater journalistic integrity in their reportage on Hindus, Hinduism, and India. The petition quickly gained support, reaching nearly 10,000 signatures within a few weeks.

A Critical Reading of Recent Findings on Indian American Hindus by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Survey Studies: It’s Complicated… I am generally skeptical of survey studies, given how easy it is for findings to simply extend researchers’ existing ideas. These studies tend to captivate the public imagination; they make us feel informed, like we’re getting a birds’-eye view of aggregated, empirical data handed to us in juicy, authoritative bullet…

This reflection is the first in a series, exploring how U.S. K-12 schools and their surrounding institutions are complicit in the continued distortion, theft, erasure, and exploitation of Dharmic traditions and societies. …

Academic Ethics & Hinduism — The Video I keep going back to that moment in the now-viral 2019 video, where Audrey Truschke, a history professor at Rutgers University, “responds” to Dr. Murali, an audience member while giving a talk in India. (I unpacked the moment here.) Murali questions Truschke about her right to do research on Aurangzeb…