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Indu Viswanathan

@indumathi37

3 months

Read the CFP! Submit a proposal! . #UnderstandingHinduphobia #Hinduphobia

Call for Papers: Understanding Hinduphobia 2024

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Understanding Hinduphobia

@HinduphobiaConf

3 months

We are thrilled to release our Call for Proposals for UH 2024: Hinduphobia Through Erasure. UH welcomes @HinduYUVAUSA to the UH family as our student organization partner this year. Proposals due April 1. @indumathi37 #Hinduphobia To learn more, visit .

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Indu Viswanathan

@indumathi37

4 years

Audrey Truschke cannot answer to the question of scholarly ethics and intellectual honesty. She relies on the authority invested in her by the Academy, without an iota of the reflexivity that the contemporary Academy demands. 1/n

भारत पुनरुत्थान - श्रीराम श्रीकृष्ण #शिवशक्ती

@punarutthana

4 years

Demolished her years together of efforts in few minutes.

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4 years

Fixed it.

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Britain: (Steals $45 trillion from India.) Missionaries: You all poor because you need some Jesus. Hindus: Didn’t you all have Jesus? Then why did you need to steal from us? Missionaries: Here’s some rice.

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@indumathi37

2 years

Yoga is inclusive because Hinduism is inclusive. Not because yoga is irreligious. Some Hindus attempt to illustrate Hinduism’s inclusivity by throwing Hinduism under the bus and claiming yoga isn’t Hindu. The yoga industrial complex weaponizes this against us. #YogaIsHinduism

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@indumathi37

2 years

Since it's Mahashivaratri....an oldie but a goodie... When I was in elementary school in the early 80's in the suburbs of NY, I was pretty much the only Indian kid in my grade. I was also the only vegetarian and the only Hindu.

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@indumathi37

3 years

You know who the *real* phishing victims are? Indian students who are forced to learn and regurgitate the unsubstantiated claims made in NCERT textbooks. That’s a much more important and insidious scam to focus on. With real victims.

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@indumathi37

2 years

I’ve been waiting for the right moment to share this and now seems appropriate.

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@indumathi37

3 years

This is incredibly damning evidence.

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@indumathi37

2 years

Much of the outrage about the Kerala temple barring Mansiya VP’s performance reflects total ignorance about the ontology of kovils and that Bharatanatyam is a form of worship. A kovil is not a public space for performance, delight, or congregation. It is the abode of the Deity.

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@indumathi37

4 years

Here's the thing. Kamala Harris doesn't identify as Hindu. Her name is Hindu. She has Hindu roots. But she is a practicing Baptist. (There is no way this Christian Supremacist nation is ready for a non-Christian person in the executive branch.)

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@indumathi37

2 years

@RutgersU ’s Asian Studies Director is a Christian missionary. Questions are raised re: her genocide denial and Hinduphobia. I can imagine that’s uncomfortable for Rutgers. And yet, THEY’D be asking akin questions if a white prof. denied the horrors of transatlantic slave trade.

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Indu Viswanathan

@indumathi37

3 years

Fixed it.

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@indumathi37

3 months

Fixed it.

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@indumathi37

3 years

When Christians "fear" Hindus, it is because they believe we are devil worshippers. When Hindus fear Christians, it is because they have killed, manipulated, abused, and colonized us because they believe we are devil worshippers. Those are not the same fears.

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@indumathi37

2 years

It appears that my Medium post on Audrey Truschke's unethical research was mysteriously deleted. Working with Medium to get it back up again. Hang tight.

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@indumathi37

2 years

“When the cattle were moving close to the kill spot, they would weep, crying with big tears trembling with fear.”

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@indumathi37

2 years

“Yes! Why can’t we have an easy name like Cook?” "You want us to have a name like Cook?" "Yes." “Do you even know what Viswanathan means?” she responded. I shook my head. “It means ‘Lord of the Universe’.”

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@indumathi37

4 years

If that genocidal numbskull Columbus set sail for India in 1492 and misidentified Native Americans as Indians, but “India didn’t exist as a unified construct until 1947”, was flat-earther Columbus just a prescient genius in a glitchy time machine? Asking for a civilization.

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@indumathi37

2 years

I can express myself freely on FB as a Hindu (or at least I think I can) bc I am in the US. Hindus in India cannot. They are getting BEHEADED and BUTCHERED for expressing solidarity with Nupur Sharma on FB. She *referenced a text*. How is this not all over the Western press?

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@indumathi37

2 years

A friend asked: How deep must yengde’s hatred be that a movie about an unrecognized genocide is viewed as “privileged victimhood”? I responded: Bone deep. It obscures everything he sees. He sees the world through hatred for Brahmins. It is the only thing he hears…

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@indumathi37

2 years

The gaslighting and unsubstantiated claims about Hindus have to stop. It's not true just because you think it could be true. That is not evidence. That's bias. That's Hinduphobia. #ProtectLeicesterHindus

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@indumathi37

2 years

When the two youngest religions - Christianity and Islam - were born, both decided they were the only religion and had a duty to make the rest of the world listen. One headed West and the other headed East (more or less) on their campaigns of settler and extractive colonization…

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@indumathi37

1 year

This tenured @RutgersU professor isn't celebrating the fact that the court found her to be truthful. She is celebrating the fact that DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE COURT FOUND HER STATEMENTS TO BE VERIFIABLY FALSE (i.e. lies), it recognized her RIGHT to lie under the First Amendment.

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@indumathi37

3 years

I’m a US citizen. Stop the xenophobic witch-hunt against Hindu Americans.

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@indumathi37

2 years

Just gonna leave this here.

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@indumathi37

3 years

#BREAKING @RutgersU STUDENT ASSEMBLY UNANIMOUSLY PASSES A RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING OUR WORKING DEFINITION OF #HINDUPHOBIA . This is a historical moment. 👏🏽👏🏽 @RutgersHSC @HinduStudentsC @hinduoncampus #UnderstandingHinduphobia2021

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@indumathi37

2 years

Acc. to the @nytimes , a Sunni Muslim, angry that his daughter married a Shiite Muslim, is the main suspect in the murder of 4 Muslim men but “journalist” @cjwerleman is busy painting a target on the backs of Hindu men AND WOMEN based purely on his bigotry. Hinduphobia is real.

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@indumathi37

3 years

Two of the Hindu student leaders from Rutgers went onto a podcast run by Hindus to talk about Hinduphobia at Rutgers. Neither of them have ever publicly said anything negative about the associate professor.

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@indumathi37

4 years

Hinduism is the largest indigenous knowledge tradition (in terms of people) left on earth. To the two Abrahamic religions that have actively and violently taken over most of the planet by any means necessary, Hinduism is the final frontier.

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@indumathi37

2 years

This level of intellectual dishonesty should get a scholar formally expelled from the academy. There’s no merit to her claims. She’s making false connections via insinuation and colonizer theory w/ the sole purpose of making the dismantling of Hinduism an urgent moral imperative.

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2 years

Yoga is Hinduism. Anyone who really knows yoga knows this. Hinduism is multiform and malleable. Any one can practice it without converting, but asana alone doesn’t make one a yogi. What these “experts” can’t grasp is the concept that tradition can be inclusive and pluralist

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3 years

If you wept when the bulldozers came to uproot the tree in "Avatar" but don't weep for or recognize the 1,000s of Hindu temples that were and *are* destroyed and desecrated in India, maybe you can understand why Hindus are angry and traumatized. #TruthandReconciliationforBharat

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@indumathi37

2 years

Can you imagine a tenured white Christian professor making herself the victim wrt any other minority immigrant American community? Making herself the victim after erasing the violence of colonizers and demonizing the descendants of the colonized for being angry about it?

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@indumathi37

2 years

I keep thinking about how @cjwerleman made a point of accusing Hindu WOMEN of being potential terrorists in the NM shooting. When have American women of ANY religion been gun-toting terrorists? When have any Hindu Americans? Hinduphobia inspires wild delusions and deflections.

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@indumathi37

2 years

Siri, what are the traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Obsessive Hinduphobia Syndrome?

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@indumathi37

3 years

If you refuse to recognize or don't know that Hindus have experienced multiple genocides across generations, how does this distort your perception of who Hindu Americans are and what we hold? How can you begin to fathom how insidiously anti-Hindu hate manifests?

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Yoga, Science, & Technology I have seen Hindus arguing that yoga is a science or technology and therefore it doesn't belong to a particular religion. A thread.

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@indumathi37

2 years

We sometimes meet Hindu American students who say they don’t experience Hinduphobia in classes bc they’re in STEM. When asked if Hindu contributions to STEM are recognized in their syllabi, they shake their heads. The erasure of Hinduism/Hindus in ANY discipline is Hinduphobia.

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3 years

Have you noticed that when Americans make statements to embrace "all" religions, they'll say sthg like "No matter if you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhist", that Hinduism is CONSISTENTLY left off the list? (And the remaining Dharma traditions, except maybe Sikhism.)

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2 years

This toxic combination of a) ignorance/denial about Hindu genocide and b) spiritual bypassing/weaponizing ahimsa is a cancer in the community of self-appointed South Asian™ “rational spokespersons”. It’s delusional & dangerous bc these voices get amplified as “moral” and “just.”

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@PadmaLakshmi

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Fellow Hindus, don't succumb to this fear-mongering. There is no threat to Hinduism in India or anywhere else. True spirituality doesn't include any room for sowing hatred of any kind. People of all faiths should be able to live peacefully together in this ancient, vast land.

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This Pakistani Hinduphobic troll constantly puts out his Mensa-level “analysis.” This time, he’s targeted a handful of Hindus - especially women (including me, @ProfVemsani and @sunandavashisht ) - found photos of us where we’re drenched in sunlight and accused us of trying …

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@indumathi37

3 years

That embarrassing moment when everyone finds out that actually there was no sponsorship to rescind. Also notice how these professors don’t think Hindu students are “legitimate constituents of the university.” McCarthyism 2.0. We’ve been here before.

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@indumathi37

3 years

I don't think it's that Western campuses are *suddenly* unsafe for Hindus and Hinduism. The Western Academy has *always* been a wellspring of anti-Hinduism. (Perhaps it's just become more audacious since 2014.)

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2 years

He shot and killed his grandmother before killing 14 children and their teacher. He was 18 yo. There are 10 yo children still missing. Parents running through the school looking for their babies. How broken is this country that we’re seeing Newtown all over again 10 YEARS LATER?

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@indumathi37

3 years

What a refreshingly honest approach to promoting her conference - referring to it as hell.

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@indumathi37

3 years

The Christian colonization of India is happening right in front of us. If you ever wondered what you would’ve done if you’d been there when indigenous & enslaved people were forcibly converted in the Americas and Africa, it’s whatever you’re doing about this issue right now.

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3 years

Hinduphobia has been so normalized by Indologists and South Asian studies scholars that they don’t think it’s a problem. That’s how systemic discrimination works - it normalizes itself through dominant institutions.

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@indumathi37

2 years

Fearful of being labeled Islamophobic, some people refuse to acknowledge or discuss the existence of Islamic extremism. They label the mere mention of Islamism as Islamophobia. Some of these people are elite, English-speaking Hindus.

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@indumathi37

1 year

Why I love New York… The exterminator was here this morning helping us with a mouse situation. Irish American man, Brooklyn-raised, affable and chatty. After entering our home, he immediately asked if he should take off his shoes.

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@indumathi37

3 years

They just keep digging their heels in even as they scramble to cover up their ethical blunders. There is no virulent attack. It’s called a respectful, understandable community response. We’re human beings and we have agency and a right to free speech.

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@indumathi37

2 years

@RutgersU , this tenured professor is actively encouraging McCarthyism. She’s using her position to put targets on people’s backs - including your students. She’s even going after @HinduStudentsC . What are you doing to protect them and ensure they feel safe and are treated fairly?

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@indumathi37

3 months

The mindforking thing about being Hindu in this world is that we are expected to apologize for things that never happened (Aryan Invasion Theory) and aren’t happening (the “Hindutva genocide of 250 million Muslims in Modi’s India”) while acting like what happened never did (the…

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@indumathi37

4 years

My latest article. It was, as usual, a labor of love. I talk about the Murali/Truschke incident, scholarly ethics, and being a Hindu In the Academy. I would be honored if you read it. (It’s long but worth it!) 🙏🏽

Becoming A Dharmic Researcher: A Responsibility, Not A Right

Academic Ethics and Hinduism

medium.com

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@indumathi37

3 years

So proud of these Hindu American students for their courage, clarity, and conviction. #BelieveHindus #HinduphobiaIsReal

HinduStudentsCouncil

@HinduStudentsC

3 years

The upcoming “Dismantling Global Hindutva” Conference is a smokescreen for #Hinduphobia . Nothing else. Stand with Hindu students. @hinduoncampus

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@indumathi37

2 years

Naming Islamism ≠ Islamophobia. (OTOH, a ⚪️ ✝️ tenured prof. who professionally erases Islamic supremacist violence is actively feeding Islamophobia.) As for the patronizing msg to Hindus, nobody cares about your “brilliant” insight, Missionary. This passes for education? 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@indumathi37

4 years

Does anyone else get annoyed that the image most often used in the West to evoke India is the Taj Mahal? Tweet back with one image you think OUGHT to be The One that evokes India in the West. No commentary/articles. Just ONE IMAGE. Let’s fill Twitter with some beauty. 🌺🙏🏽🌺

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@indumathi37

2 years

No kanna. Sigh. Where to begin? There is no reconciliation w/o truth. There is no real harmony or peace w/o truth. And neither you nor that other moonji has any incentive or inclination to recognize the truth. So you and your South Asian Americans can kindly go fly a kite. 🙏🏽

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@indumathi37

2 years

Some of the same Americans who argue about for faster pathways to citizenship for refugees to the U.S. are against the CAA, not recognizing that this is exactly what it does (at least in theory). They effectively sympathize with one set of refugees while erasing another.

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2 years

Hinduphobia is demagoguery that *creates fear and suspicion* about Hindus/Hinduism in order to "justify" and "validate" killing Hindus, denying Hindu identity, and dismantling Hinduism. This is a centuries-old effort. "Nobody is afraid of us bc we're peaceful" is not the point.

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@indumathi37

2 years

The 250 million person protest in India is so real you can hear it from space. True story.

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@indumathi37

2 years

I said what I said.

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1 year

When Hindus like myself were discriminated against and viewed suspiciously after 9/11, we never claimed that we were being targeted for being Hindu. We knew that we were being viewed as suspicious because we "seemed Muslim" - that we were casualties in Islamophobia.

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2 years

When Hindus use "Hindu" to describe Hindu things (like bindis, sarees, bharatanatyam, and Onam) we are accused of erasing Indian demographic minority/global majority religions, Islam and Christianity, bc people claim that those clothes, arts, and holidays belong to all Indians.

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@indumathi37

4 years

Telling an indigenous tradition to patent their knowledge in order to maintain claim to it (or else) is epistemic bullying. It is neocolonial violence.

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@indumathi37

2 years

The Archdiocese of New York tweeted a simple Diwali message. Here is a small handful of the reactions. “Tolerant Christians” in a blue state and one of the most diverse cities anywhere.

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@indumathi37

2 years

Yoga is Hinduism.

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@indumathi37

3 years

Last week, Rashmi Samant was forced to resign as the first ever Indian female student union president at Oxford over stupid, tasteless tweets she made when she was a teenager and when she first arrived in Europe from India.

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@indumathi37

3 years

Disappointed - but not shocked - to see both of my alma maters - @Cornell and @Columbia - associated with this Hinduphobic hate rally…I mean “conference.” I also want point out that I’m an alumna using my education everyday to examine & expose Hinduphobia. Joke’s on you.

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3 years

This is a huge step towards institutional recognition of Hinduphobia, which has NEVER happened, ASFAIK, at least in the U.S. The conversation has only begun, as @Rutgers_Newark recognizes. I am so proud of our Hindu student leaders!! @RutgersHSC @hinduoncampus @RutgersHinduYUVA

Rutgers University-Newark

@Rutgers_Newark

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The West learns that Hindus are angry but doesn’t recognize/know what we’re angry *about*. So justice & equality for us is perceived as oppressiveness & fundamentalism by us. Indian secularism is built upon the hunched back of Hinduism. When we stand up, it’s seen as dangerous.

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@indumathi37

3 years

This represents exactly what these scholars have said and are doing. I haven't exaggerated anything, only gently distilled it to its essence. This is exactly how Hinduphobia works.

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@indumathi37

2 years

Lead - 1 Christians Against Science - 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@indumathi37

2 years

I can’t stop laughing romg.

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@indumathi37

2 years

I find it fascinating and ironic that a lot of Hindus on here don’t seem to grasp the relationship between the micro and the macro. The subtle and the gross. Hinduphobia is normalized when we allow our people and tradition to be disrespected in “little ways” by not calling

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2 years

When diasporic Hindus donate millions through a Hindu charity to help support COVID-relief in India, with full transparency in the allocation of funds towards medical equipment, we’re accused of fueling “Hindutva violence.”

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1 year

I keep seeing the argument that naming the fact that Hindus were specifically targeted in the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide (which is well-documented) will cause “communal tension.” It boggles the mind that the trauma caused to Hindus by erasing their genocide is considered

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3 years

In recent months, the global Hindu community has begun to have greater discussion about the subtle, and increasingly overt, bigotry and discrimination practicing Hindus face in academic and other spaces here in the U.S.

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@indumathi37

4 years

Not viewing Hindus’ triggered responses through a trauma-informed lens is ahistorical and cruel gaslighting. We are a traumatized community of *survivors* whose history was erased from our textbooks and yours. (1/n)

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3 years

My heart is breaking about the situation in India and burning about the lack of humanity from the United States. As so many have said better than I can, this is a global pandemic that needs to be solved at a global level.

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@indumathi37

3 years

Labeling every Hindu American who calls out the ineptitude & fallacies of a white American scholar’s formal & informal claims about Hinduism “Hindtuva” & “BJP IT cell” is blatant #xenophobia & #AntiAsianHate . We have a right to dissent, to our history & to reclaim our personhood

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@indumathi37

3 years

🙏🏽to the person who made this brilliant meme. It is ON POINT. #decoloniality #LetUsDecolonizeHistory

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@indumathi37

3 years

I suspect that a lot of Hindu Americans of Indian descent don’t actually know much about Indian socio-politics and Hindtuva but are so afraid of being vilified by American society because of xenophobia and anti-Asian hate that they simply adopt the popular progressive stance.

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@indumathi37

2 years

So apparently I am a whore whose ancestors should have been annihilated by the Mughals just because I am asking for Hindu voices to be heard. But Hinduphobia isn’t real.

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@indumathi37

3 years

On this auspicious day, I humbly present to you my most recent labor of love - Navigating Hinduphobia: A Manual for Students, Parents, and Educators

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2 years

What I find striking about the Indian left’s response to the Udaipur Beheading is that they keep stating that the killers and their supporters don’t represent the entire Indian Muslim community and to suggest otherwise is Islamophobic.

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2 years

Hinduphobia and misleading rhetoric about Hindutva are so pervasive and baked into progressive discourse that when Hindu Americans refer to ourselves as a community - or form a Hindu organization - we’re immediately suspected of religious extremism and nationalism.

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Wait, isn’t “Abhishek” a Hindiized form of Abhishekam?

ಅಭಿಷೇಕ್ | Abhishek (ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರೆಲ್ಲಾ ಒಂದು ಪರಿವಾರ)

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Bharat is a Hindi name Why should South Indian states agree to Hindiized form of name for the union?

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2 years

Remember what the "We're criticizing Hindutva not Hinduism" crowd really stands for. These are direct quotes from an "anti-Hindutva" conference supported by >1K scholars and 60 universities. Look at their definition of Hindutva. (Not new information about DGH. Just a reminder.)

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2 years

A Hindu man is publicly beheaded by Muslim radicals for supporting a Hindu woman who cited facts about Muhammad from Islamic texts. She was accused of insulting him and threatened with rape and death. It’s Islamophobic to connect it to religion but go ahead and blame the Hindus.

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@indumathi37

3 years

DGH is brazenly hypocritical. That's the hubris that comes with being elitist gatekeepers. They keep doubling down on how *they* are the disenfranchised ones AND how they have all this institutional support. It doesn't add up. Let's take a look at some numbers.

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4 years

It’s brazen, insidious, classic white woman colonizing poison. She IS the contemporary poster child for how white women weaponize their identities and the Academy to justify harm against brown people and specifically to demonize brown men. This video is a brilliant example. 2/n

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…of getting teased about my weird last name – that it was so long, and hard to pronounce, and did it include every letter in the alphabet. When I told Amma, she smiled and said, “They’re making fun of your last name? They have names like Baker and Cook and Fisher and Smith.”

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“Statistics” used in research on religious-based hate crimes in India often rely heavily on Indian media reportage. If the media only names Hindus as perpetrators and never as victims and the reverse for Muslims, the perception (especially here in the West) is that

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@indumathi37

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The conviction and righteousness of delusional, self-colonizing, lettered, elite Hindus is unparalleled.

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@indumathi37

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The blatant, brazen Hinduphobia Hindu American kids face today is unfathomable.

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I can’t even imagine what it must be like to be a Hindu kid in America. My Niece sent me this. #hinduphobia

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Doomscrolling today = seeing “35 pieces” over and over again knowing it won’t appear in “South Asian American” discourse that a Hindu woman named Shraddha was slaughtered and dismembered by her partner. I am sick to my stomach. Hindu women and girls are not safe. 35 pieces.

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As we start seeing references to Diwali as an “Indian” holiday, here’s a reminder to honor its source tradition - Sanatana Dharma/Hinduism and some of our dharmic sister traditions. Diwali is not just a cultural celebration - it loses its meaning when we reduce it as such.

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@indumathi37

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Indian Secularism = Institutional Hinduphobia

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@indumathi37

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"The International Mission Board (IMB), an American Christian organization, has set aside $175 billion to convert people in India to Christianity. "

Christian organization to spend $175 billion dollars, send missionaries to convert non-Christians...

The International Mission Board (IMB), an American Christian organization, has set aside $175 billion to convert people in India to Christianity. The members of this organization are engaged in...

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