Vamsee Juluri

Even Though Money, Money, Money By 70s band Abba is a classic and a showcase of talent but unfortunately the same can't be said about most Hindu organizations that for over 20 years have demanded Money, Money, Money donations running into millions when we see the rise of Hinduphobia going a millionfold. Most of these [...]

The Guardian a few weeks back reports ‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flag. Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015 but a vote to exclude LGBTQ+ flags from city property has soured relations. It should actually be “A sense of betrayal’: 'White' liberal dismay [...]

Vamsee Juluri, a professor of media studies at the University of San Francisco, provides a thought-provoking review of the significance and influence of the Indian diaspora in US politics. This analysis takes place against the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s highly-anticipated visit to the USA from June 21-24, which garnered an immense response. Prof. [...]

A discussion by Prof. Vamsee Juluri and Halley Kalyan on “Contemporary Hinduism – Horizontal Coercions Vs. Vertical Transmissions.” In this discussion, Prof. Vamsee Juluri and Halley Kalyan talk about the vertical inter-generational continuities baked into Hinduism in the form of ancestral traditions and contrast it with other religions and movements that have grown by breaking [...]

UK study and Debate about Hindu students who face racial discrimination and bullying in the country “Young Hindus (in the UK) are not typically sharing their experiences with their parents”: Author of the report Charlotte Littlewood Educationist Rishi Nanda also shares his views     The Debate  Follow Charlotte Littlewood   More @ Use of [...]

A recent report on an online portal (2018) expressing concern about a sword-carrying Hanuman Jayanthi procession in Noida led to a formidable social media backlash centered around the hashtag BajrangiTwitter. At the centre of this controversy was the characterisation of a now ubiquitous image of Hanuman by the author of the report (and others before) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There is a well-known observation among Hindu Activists Outside the Sangh that most of the usual performative academic experts on Hindutva haven’t probably heard about. Sita Ram Goel, the tallest of figures in that small but important category of Hindu Activists Outside the Sangh, observed, as early as the 1950s, that the typical reaction of [...]

But among this theatre of madness is also the biggest burden real Hindu activists have to deal with when the Barmy Hindu Twitterati army is on the loose. This motley crew of online Hindoos who most lived totally boring lives suddenly turned superhero to let loose their alter egos on social media especially Twitter. They are [...]