Vishal Ganesan
Attorney. Interested in diaspora culture and politics, dharma, and NBA hoops. I also curate @HindooHistory on Instagram and Twitter
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Jai Paul, Zoo Babies, Dhananjay the First... three iconic diaspora artists/groups that fizzled out too quick
The closest analogue to the current hysteria around "hindu nationalism" in America is the paranoia about Sharia in America post 9/11. Of course, the difference is that in this case...
Another in this genre, published in the Evening Star, 1947, this one by Lothrop Stoddard, infamous eugenicist and white supremacist: "Internal Strife in India Started Centuries A...
A New York Herald editorial, reprinted in the Wilmington Morning Star, 1947, "Indian Nightmare", with the associated comic: https://t.co/j6P83Fvhux
"Indian religious history must be cordoned off from the religious history of the larger, monotheistic religions. Paradigms borΒrowed from elsewhere do not map onto ancient Indiaβs...
"People love griping about Twitter, but in doing so they take for granted everything that it has offered in terms of making public discourse accessible to a broader range of people...
That the Pakistani army specifically targeted Hindus during the Bangladeshi Liberation War of 1971 is amply documented (read Gary Bass's "Blood Telegram"). But of course, b/c this...
The South Asianification of Diwali is going strong. I am not parochial about who celebrates what, but it is exceedingly strange to write a whole article about the festival without...
Predictably shoddy reporting, but instructive. These conspiratorial "global hindutva" pieces all make the same error: b/c of a conflation of "hindutva" with a broader phenomenon of...
Excerpt from @jaycaspiankang's excellent book, "The Loneliest Americans": "But what sets modern, assimilated Asian Americans apart is that our bonds with our 'brothers and sisters...
The desperate need to appeal to western liberal sensibilities is killing Indian intellectual culture. Does anyone with even an iota of familiarity with Bollywood actually believe t...
One of the canards you often hear from south asian activist class is that we need to avoid "normalizing" the BJP. This is the rationale for the JLF protest. This to me is insane a...