2024

Syrian Refugee Ban: The Latest UK Foreign Policy Evil, Forsea, Rajiv Sinha, December 17th, 2024

Best of both sides: In Bangladesh, not state-sanctioned persecution, The Indian Express, Ria Chakrabarty, December 6th, 2024

A window into a fascist engine: arbitrary abuse, population control, and Israel’s impossible destruction of Palestinians, Forsea, Rajiv Sinha, October 14th, 2024

­­Hindus are not alone in facing hate crimes in the US amid surge in religion-based incidents, Scroll.in, Raju Rajagopal, October 11th, 2024

How Hindutva groups in the US have adopted the strategies of White supremacists and Zionists, Scroll.in, Raju Rajagopal, September 21st, 2024

Hindu Supremacists and White Supremacists Have One Thing in Common for Now: Islamophobia, The Wire, Rajiv Sinha, September 17th, 2024

An Interfaith Dispatch From the West Bank, The Nation, Sunita Viswanath, September 5th, 2024

What Indian Hindus don’t understand about Hindus in Bangladesh, The Indian Express, Ria Chakrabarty, September 2nd, 2024

Palestine Diary: Where the Gaza Genocide Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg, The Wire, Sunita Viswanath, August 30th, 2024

Janmashtami in Gaza, the World’s Largest Open Air Prison, NRI Affairs, Sunita Viswanath, August 26th, 2024

Janmashtami in Gaza, the World’s Largest Open Air Prison, The Wire, Sunita Viswanath, August 26th, 2024

Ram Mandir in the NYC India Day Parade is a symbol of hate, not heritage, Habibi Siddiqui, Sunita Viswanath, August 18th, 2024

AI and the Indian Elections: What Does Human Connection Look Like in the Digital Age?, Outlook India, Faria Rehman, July 29th, 2024

British Hindus Must Take a Stand Against Groups Promoting Hindu Supremacy in the UK, The Wire, Rajiv Sinha, July 24th, 2024

Rahul Gandhi’s truth and Modi’s twisting of facts: a Hindu’s perspective, NRI Affairs, Raju Rajagopal, July 15th, 2024

BJP, Modi do not speak for all Hindus – twisting Rahul Gandhi’s speech exposes their own duplicity, Scroll India, Raju Rajagopal, July 11th, 2024

A Community in Crisis: The Need for Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Our Mandirs and Masjids, American Kahani, Rohan Narine, July 8th, 2024

Unsealed: Suhag Shukla’s Deposition in Hindu American Foundation’s Failed Defamation Case Against Us, American Kahani, Sunita Viswanath, June 29th, 2024

Reimagining the Mahabharata: Vaishnavi Patel’s ‘Goddess of the River’ and the Power of Retelling, American Kahani, Thrisha Mohan, June 26th, 2024

Indian Election Results Give Hope to Human Rights Organizations, South Asian Voices, Raju Rajagopal and Ria Chakrabarty, June 14th, 2024

Voters in Ayodhya have shown what it means to be Hindu. Indian-Americans must learn, The Print, Sunita Viswanath, June 2024

Indian women deserve the democracy they were promised, The Hindu, Ria Chakrabarty, June 2024

‘Monkey Man’ Not Only Effaces ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Image of India But Also Challenges Rising Chauvinistic Forces, American Kahani, Thrisha Mohan, May 11th, 2024

A Response to the Vilification of Hindus for Human Rights by Suhag Shukla of the Hindu American Foundation, American Kahani, Raju Rajagopal, April 30th, 2024

The Hindu Leaders Fighting Hindu Nationalism, TIME Magazine, Sunita Viswanath, March 21, 2024

Beyond Alleged Assassination Plots, India’s Modi is Silencing US Critics Digitally Too, Just Security, Ria Chakrabarty, January 16, 2024

How ‘Hinduphobia’ is being weaponised in the US, The Scroll, Sravya Tadepalli and Sunita Viswanath, Jan 7, 2024

‘Hinduphobia’ – How the language of social justice works to serve Hindu nationalism in the US diaspora, NRI Affairs, Sravya Tadepalli and Sunita Viswanath, Jan 7, 2024

2023

The BJP's Far-Fetched Conspiracy Theories Are Endangering the Safety of Indians Abroad, The Wire, Raju Rajagopal, Dec 30, 2023

Will Biden Protect US Citizens From Indian Government Threats?, The Messenger, Sunita Viswanath, Dec 28, 2023

“Free-Speech Absolutist” Musk Is Abetting Modi’s Suppression of Voices in India, Truthout, Rasheed Ahmed and Sunita Viswanath, Dec 16, 2023

'Hinduphobia': How the Language of Social Justice Works to Serve Hindu Nationalism in the US Diaspora, The India Forum, Sravya Tadepalli and Sunita Viswanath, Dec 1, 2023

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Joins Hindus for Human Rights Multi-Faith Diwali Gathering to Call for Ceasefire in Gaza, American Kahani, Ria Chakrabarty, Nov 18, 2023

"I feel a dissonance between Diwali celebrations and Gazan children’s pleas for a chance to survive", NRI Affairs, Sunita Viswanath, Nov 11, 2023

I Feel a Dissonance Between Deepavali Celebrations and Gazan Children’s Pleas for a Chance to Survive, American Kahani, Sunita Viswanath, Nov 11, 2023

Indian Americans Have the Responsibility to Speak Out Against the Genocide in Gaza, American Kahani, Pranay Somayajula, Nov 11, 2023

FBI hate crime statistics 2022: US data challenges the ‘Hinduphobia’ narrative, Scroll.in, Raju Rajagopal, Nov 2, 2023

A Prayer, Chant and Protest Song: Faith Communities Must Resist Their Extremists, The Wire, Sunita Viswanath, Oct 30, 2023

California Governor put concerns of caste-privileged communities over civil rights, NRI Affairs, Raju Rajagopal, Oct 11, 2023

OPINION: Hindsight is 2023 - My Chance Encounter With the Vishwa Hindu Parishad 30 Years Ago is Haunting Me Even Today, NRI Affairs, Raju Rajagopal, Oct 7, 2023

Indian American Anti-Caste Coalition Appeals to California Governor Newsom to Sign SB403, American Kahani, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Sept 27, 2023

The Hindu American Foundation Should Stop Blaming Others for Its String of Failures, Sabrang, Raju Rajagopal, Sept 18, 2023

Parliament of World's Religions: RSS-Linked Nivedita Bhide Dropped from the Speakers' List, The Wire, Raju Rajagopal, Sept 10, 2023

Prioritise human rights during India visit: US NGOs urge Congressman Ro Khanna, Counterview, David Kalal, Aug 10, 2023

The Indian State of Manipur Is on the Verge of Civil War. Modi Hasn’t Said a Word About It, TIME Magazine, Sunita Viswanath, July 13, 2023

Not George Soros agent, I am a practising Hindu woman against Hindu nationalism: Sunita Viswanath, The Print, Sunita Viswanath, July 4, 2023

If India and the US really share values, Biden must call out Modi, Religion News Service, Sunita Viswanath, June 23, 2023

View from the diaspora: Washington’s uncritical embrace of Modi bodes ill for Indian democracy, The Print, Raju Rajagopal, June 22, 2023

Biden’s Betrayal: Washington’s Uncritical Embrace of Narendra Modi Bodes Ill for Indian Democracy, American Kahani, Raju Rajagopal, June 21, 2023

Opinion | Saving the secular and pluralistic fabric of India - The American Bazaar, The American Bazaar, Sunita Viswanath, June 21, 2023

How the exclusionary Hindu rashtra project threatens the foundations of Indian democracy, Scroll.in, Raju Rajagopal, May 12, 2023

The Opposition’s Dubious Strategy to Thwart Legal Protections Against Caste Discrimination in California, American Kahani, Raju Rajagopaal, May 9, 2023

First person: In the battle to reclaim Hinduism from Hindutva, a pilgrimage of love, Scroll.in, Nikhil Mandalaparthy, April 25, 2023

‘The Elephant Whisperers’ & the banality of Hindu American Foundation’s Attempt to co-opt Adivasis, Raju Rajagopal, March 27, 2023

‘The Elephant Whisperers’ and the Disingenuity of Hindu American Foundation's Attempt to Co-opt Adivasis - American Kahani, Raju Rajagopal, March 24, 2023

Hindu Council of Australia platform for One Nation Party raises questions, Indian Link, Mahesh Ramakrishnan-White, March 1, 2023

Significance of caste discrimination ban in Seattle, Leaflet, Ria Chakrabarty, March 6, 2023

What FBI data about anti-Hindu hate crimes in the US reveals about fears of ‘Hinduphobia’, Scroll, Raju Rajagopal, Feb 20, 2023

IITs Will Remain Elitist Until They Prioritise the Needs of Marginalised Students, The Wire, Raju Rajagopal, Feb 17, 2023

2022

How Hindu American Foundation sees a ‘silver lining’ even in US court defeat, The Print.In, Raju Rajagopal, Dec 28, 2022

Despicable Display of ‘Dormant Manliness of Hindus’ During a Webinar in California on India’s Citizenship Laws - American Kahani, Raju Rajagopal, American Kahani, Dec 18, 2022

Hindu nationalist group, known for intolerant rhetoric, hosted a fundraiser in Frisco, Nikhil Mandalaparthy and Tara Roy, Dallas Morning News, Dec 13, 2022

What India’s UPR Means for the Quad, Ria Chakrabarty, The Diplomat, Dec 1, 2022

Hindu-Americans are in denial about caste. It’s been in religious scriptures for long, Raju Rajagopal, The Print, October 8, 2022

Democracy in danger: Hate has taken hold in India, Sunita Viswanath, Daily Maverick, South Africa, August 31, 2022

Salman Rushdie Joins Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence, Pranay Somayajula, The Nation, August 18, 2022

It’s Time to Condition Aid to India, Ria Chakrabarty, Foreign Policy, August 15, 2022

Defending India’s Human Rights Defenders, South Asian Voices, July 21, 2022

Why I Tell the Stories I Tell: I Prefer Adventures of the Pandavas and Pranks of Krishna to Cinderella and Snow White, Samara Desai, American Kahani, July 20, 2022

My Kali is Queer: Resisting the Homogenization of Hinduism, Sunita Viswanath, Religion News Service, July 11, 2022

From Buffalo to India, the Right’s Demographic Paranoia Fuels Deadly Violence, Pranay Somayajula, Jacobin, June 1, 2022

The Hindu Right’s Deniability Politics, Pranay Somayajula, Protean Magazine, May 19, 2022

A Tale of Two Bulldozers, Pranay Somayajula, The Nation, May 2, 2022

Arguments That Caste Protections ‘Unjustly Target’ South Asians Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny, Pranay Somayajula and Nikhil Mandalaparthy, Religion Dispatches, March 18, 2022

Caste Protections Are a Civil Rights Win, but Be Ready for Backlash, Pranay Somayajula, Inside Higher Ed, March 8, 2022

What Shiva Meant to a Sex Worker, to Savitribai Phule, and to Partition's Refugees, Nikhil Mandalaparthy, The Wire, March 1, 2022

The Artful Dodger: Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi’s Unholy Nexus with Hindu Nationalism, Raju Rajagopal, American Kahani, February 26, 2022

विचार: राजनीतिक हिंदुत्व के दौर में सच्चे साधुओं की चुप्पी हिंदू धर्म को पहुंचा रही है नुक़सान, Punya Upadhyaya, Newsclick Hindi, February 7, 2022

Saffron Silence is Stifling Hindus in India and Globally, Punya Upadhyaya, Newsclick.In, February 5, 2022
Hamid Ansari ‘controversy’: A healthy democracy does not fear criticism from well-wishers, Raju Rajagopal, Scroll.In, February 1, 2022

Why is the Indian Media Erasing 'Hindus for Human Rights' from the Republic Day Story?, Sunita Viswanath, Wire.In, Jan 30, 2022  

Disinformation and Democratic Backsliding: India’s Facebook Problem, Raju Rajagopal and Nikhil Mandalaparthy, South Asian Voices, Jan 10, 2022

2021

Hindus have a special responsibility to denounce hate speech and violence by Hindu extremists, Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath, Scroll.In, Dec 31, 2021

Hindus have a special responsibility to denounce hate speech and violence by Hindu extremists, Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath, NRI Affairs, Dec 31, 2021

How do we break the cycle of religious violence in South Asia?, Sunita Viswanath, Religion Dispatches, December 20, 2021

The Modi Government is Eviscerating the ‘Power of Law’ to Shut Down Dissent, Raju Rajagopal, American Kahani, December 11, 2021

Hindus for Human Rights | In support of the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference, Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath, The Daily Pennsylvanian, December 11, 2021

The Biden administration is enabling India’s human rights abuses, Sunita Viswanath et al, Al Jazeera-English, December 5, 2021

Dargahs and Gurudwaras illuminated along with the Temples on Diwali, Voices of Peace Team, Indica News, November 5, 2021

To the Fossil Fuel Industry: “Since you don’t have a heart, here’s ours.”, Sunita Viswanath, Indica News, November 5, 2021

On Gandhi Jayanti, Hindus for Human Rights Members Message on Hindu-Muslim Unity, IAMC website, HfHR Members, October 2, 2021

US hate crimes: FBI ranked ‘anti-Hindu’ incidents in 2020 at the low end of 35 faith groups, Raju Rajagopal, Scroll.In, October 2, 2021

One Tumultuous Year On, Indian Farmers’ Protest Keeps the Values of Secularism Alive, Swati Garg, American Kahani, September 28, 2021

The gains of Dismantling Global Hindutva conference will help reclaim Hinduism, Raju Rajagopal, The Print, September 18, 2021

The “Dismantling Global Hindutva: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” conference shed light on the fight against Hindutva ideology, Bidisha Biswas, Indica News, September 16, 2021
Why I feel the need to bring my Hinduism to the streets, Sunita Viswanath, Scroll.in, September 14, 2021
9/11, 1893: When Swami Vivekananda Spoke of a Tolerant Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, Sunita Viswanath and Raju Rajagopal, American Kahani, Sep 11. 2021
100 Years Later, American Hindu Leaders Are Making the Same Mistakes, Nikhil Mandalaparthy, The Wire.In, Sep 6, 2021

An American in Kasegaon: Gail Omvedt — Academician, Political Thinker and Human Rights Activist, Swathi Pottabathini, August 29, 2021

Reflections of a Hindu at the ‘Treaty People Gathering’ to Stop Oil Pipeline in Northern Minnesota, Nikhil Mandalaparthy, July 26, 2021

How Millions of Ordinary Indians Were Denied Dignity in Death by an Inept Government, Swathi Pottabathini, July 26, 2021

New Survey Shows Many Indians Preach Respect but Don’t Practice It, Bidisha Bidwas and Nikhil Mandalaparthy, Foreign Policy, July 14, 2021

For Hindus to Defend Criminals Just Because They Are Hindu is unHindu. And Plain Wrong., Sunita Viswanath and Deepak Joshi, The Wire.In, July 1, 2021

Religious Leaders and Organizations Express Solidarity With Workers Exploited by New Jersey Hindu Temple, Nikhil Mandalaparthy, June 21, 2021

Are Hindu Americans Being Victimized by Allegations of Dual Loyalty? Really?, Sunita Viswanath and Rasheed Ahmed, American Kahani, June 17, 2021

Confessions of a reluctant Hindu, Bidisha Biswas, Religion News Service, June 8, 2021

Modi’s Religious Nationalism Hurts India’s Hindus, Too, Sunita Viswanath, Foreign Policy, May 26, 2021

My fellow Hindus sued me for raising alarms about Hindu supremacy, Sunita Viswanath, Religion News Service, May 20, 2021

‘Hinduphobia’ in America? Two Competing Narratives Coming From Two Very Different Motivations, Raju Rajagopal, American Kahani, May 16, 2021

“Where are the Moderate Hindus?,” Sunita Viswanath, The Nation, May 14, 2021

Shocking News From New Jersey: Hindu Temple is Accused of Exploiting Dalit Laborers in Temple Construction, Sunita Viswanath, American Kahani, May 11, 2021

Deconstructing Anti-Hindu Sentiment: Fighting Prejudice Against Hindus Should Not Preclude Introspection, Sravya Tadepalli, American Kahani, April 27, 2021

Audrey Truschke and the Blitzkrieg from the Hindu Right, Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath, The Wire, April 16, 2021

What VHP America's Invitation to a Hatemonger, Now Rescinded, Tells Us About Sangh Parivar, Sunita Viswanath, The Wire, April 15, 2021

The Case Against Cisco: The Imperative of Outlawing Caste Discrimination in the United States, Sunita Viswanath and Raju Rajagopal, American Kahani, February 28, 2021

2020

Free My Friend Faisal Khan From Jail and Free My Hindu Faith From Hindutva, Sunita Viswanath, American Kahani, December 15, 2020

Why I Think All Hindus Should Fight Against Faisal Khan's Arrest, Sunita Viswanath, The Wire, December 8, 2020

We must applaud Thol Thirumavalavan’s stand on Manusmriti. BJP attacking the messenger, Raju Rajagopal, ThePrint.in, November 6, 2020

Swami Agnivesh was One of the Only Hindu Religious Leaders Who Took a Brave Stand Against Hindutva, Sunita Viswanath, American Kahani, September 15, 2020

Hindutva groups in the US are calling out anti-Black racism – but support bigotry in India, Raju Rajagopal, Scroll.in, July 20, 2020

Khudai Khidmatgar: Feeding India, by HfHR volunteer Meghna Sudhakar, Medium.com, July 2, 2020

NGO Brings Dalit and Adivasi Children Into the Internet Age With Online Learning, by HfHR volunteers Brandon Juhl and Sravya Tadepalli, American Kahani, July 1, 2020

Sajha Sanskriti Manch: Help Needed in Varanasi for COVID-19 Relief, by HfHR Volunteer Aminah Ahmed, Brown Girl Magazine, June 29, 2020

Modi's India should be on the US's religious freedom blacklist, Co-written by Sunita Viswanath, Cofounder of HfHR, Rev Sarah C Rajarigam-Anderson, Pastor, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, and Ahsan Khan, President of Indian American Muslim Council, Al Jazeera, June 24, 2020

Why Not the Kerala Model?, HfHR cofounder Giri’s Oped in Newsplatform.in, June 10, 2020

An activist’s dilemma: What is ahimsa in the age of state-sponsored murder?, HfHR Sunita’s Reflection in Scroll.in, June 10, 2020

Indian Americans, on the Matter of Black Lives, Raju Rajagopal’s Oped in TheWire.In, June 7, 2020

Suraj Patel: On The Issues, HfHR Team, Medium.com, June 2, 2020

Fighting Hunger: Free Ration App Helps Needy Families Get Food During Lockdown, by HfHR Team, Medium.com, June 2, 2020

Do you support or oppose the CAA?, Raju Rajagopal’s Oped in India Abroad, March 20, 2020

"The NPR Obfuscations," HfHR co-founder Raju Rajagopal writes in Asiavillenews, Chennai, "There has never been any question that NPR was created as the stepping stone for the NRC,” Jan 11, 2020

2019

‘We have to debunk the myth that minorities have privileges,’ Mumbai Mirror interviews Raju Rajagopal, Dec 2019

Rep. Ro Khanna confronts Hindu Nationalism in his backyard, Raju Rajagopal, South Asia Journal, Nov 2019

“We the (People) Hindus of India…”?, Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath, South Asia Journal, Oct 2019

Hindus must stand against Hindutva: Why I protested against Narendra Modi in Houston and New York, Sunita Viswanath, Scroll, Sep 2019

Why We, as Hindu Americans, Are Opposed to Modi's Undeclared Emergency, Raju Rajagopal and Sunita Viswanath, The Wire, Sep 2019

The National Register of Cruelty, Raju Rajagopal, The Hindu, May 2019

Raising a progressive Hindu voice to counter Indian Modi’s increasing power, Sunita Viswanath, Religion News Service, July 2019

A Conscience Call, Sunita Viswanath, The Hindu, July 2019