Hinduphobia

Hinduphobia, of course, has not been clearly argued or presented, despite being a word with a far longer anti-colonial, anti-“White supremacy,” history than a word like Islamophobia, it remains stuck in fringe social media usage because of the sheer obliviousness of our Starbucks activist upper class Hindus. Hinduphobia is not seen as a human rights reality [...]

Unlike most Hindu orgs run by self-appointed Hindu spokespeople who don’t even know the ABC of Hinduism or have the skills to articulate the Hindu cause , Australian Hindu Association has a clear strategy backed by active Hindus along much more as explained by Shree Amendra Singh,Councillor Suman Saha and Namrata Singh. Check for more [...]

On 12 January 2022 a man scaled BBC Broadcasting House to destroy a sculpture made by the artist, Eric Gill. Now Gill’s own diaries, published in the 1980s, admitted that he sexually molested his own daughters. Despite long campaigns, the BBC have refused to move the statue made by this sick paedophile. Then again this should [...]

Sunday, October 3, is the anniversary of the day in 1990 on which Hladini devi dasi was brutally gunned down by an extra-judicial firing squad in war-torn Liberia in western Africa. The death squad arrived at the Hare Krishna temple in the capital city of Monrovia in the early morning hours, and ordered the devotees [...]

Author: Vamsee Juluri   Note: an edited version of this was first published in The Print on November 1, 2021. The version below restores some sentences and some links.   The meeting between India’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and (nobody said “Christian Expansionist”) Pope Francis reminds me of a phenomenon that media researchers have been talking about for over a century now – propaganda. Propaganda [...]

The Independent newspaper was established in 1986, the founders intended its political stance to reflect the centre of the British political spectrum. However, it has been seen as left-leaning, a competitor to the liberal Guardian. What it also shares with the Guardian is its extreme anti-Hindu animus which compromises the very idea of it actually [...]

For the second generation of immigrants growing up in Britain, violence from neo-nazi groups such as the NF, BNP and Combat 18 was a regular if not daily hazard. Add to that the more general racism that pervaded life. This is where it starts from. The fanatic ideological commitment to vilify an entire community or [...]

A Hindu temple has been raided for the fifth time since May with thousands of pounds in cash stolen and rooms vandalised. Collection boxes with the money were taken from the Swindon Hindu Temple and doors were damaged in the break-in. The main altar of the temple – where the deities are placed – was [...]

Over the last few weeks, Hindus in Aotearoa have been shocked to find out about a publication by Massey University promoting Hinduphobia and Hindumisia. The paper titled ‘Cultural Hindutva and Islamophobia’ was authored by Prof. Mohan J. Dutta, Dean’s Chair Professor in Communication, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University. The paper was a [...]

  I write as a concerned Hindu academic in Australia due to a pattern of bullying by the Dean’s Chair in Communication at Massey University School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing. Professor Mohan J Dutta gave a lecture on 25 August denying the existence of Hinduphobia, arguing it is purely a political device to generate [...]