VAMSEE JULURI
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Writer&USF Media Studies Prof. Books-The Mythologist, Bollywood Nation, Rearming Hinduism. Columns-American Kahani, Print, HuffPo(2008-18), Indian Express.
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My grateful reflections on a long-awaited reunion with my mother after two long years apart because of the pandemic:
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#hinduphobia
is formally denounced as non-existent by the paper of record .
sounds like this harvard prof author is calling on US employers and university administrators to treat Hindu employees and students as liars should they ever speak up against hinduphobia.…
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#SB403
veto is a glimmer of justice after years of propaganda and dehumanization against Hindus. I hope the Hindu community won't sit back now but instead push on to get effective Anti-
#Hinduphobia
legislation passed at all levels. The need is obvious. Don't forget these last…
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My latest, on
#UdhayanidhiStalin
comments on
#SanatanaDharma
.
"The charade of politicians who inherit billions from their families pushing policies that destroy the modest livelihoods of traditional temple archakas who live on petty salaries and offerings from devotees should…
'Udhayanidhi Stalin’s remarks show dynastic privilege hides behind social justice slogans'
@vamseejuluri
, professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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Just realized the whole event he spoke at was called "Eradicating Sanatana Dharma". Truly appalling.
At least two major acts of genocide in the world were preceded by conferences. Signifies a level of normalization that is truly dangerous.
This should not be forgotten with…
'Political and economic inheritance goes on ruthlessly, but biocultural inheritance of the kind associated with Sanatana Dharma is being demonised and stamped out.'
@vamseejuluri
, professor of Media Studies, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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#hinduphobia
is not just geopolitical but downright existential psycho problem for the kind of storytellers Nutflix promotes. He ain't coming (He/She/Any Pronoun U Like). You want to wait you wait. Stop trashing on the rest of us who didn't fall for tawdry scams and kept…
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An American handle (Libs of TikTok) has the courtesy to call Riddhi Patel, correctly, an "Unhinged Pro-Palestine protestor" rather than "Indian" or "Hindu."
OTOH, Indian news channels and Hindu social media stars are blindly calling her "Hindu terrorist" (even if ironically)…
WILD: Unhinged Pro-Palestine protestor Riddhi Patel threatens to M*RDER Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh (R) in a psychotic rant during a city council meeting.
Patel is being charged with 16 felonies and is being held on a $1 million bail.
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"Even in the quietest moments/ I wish I knew, what I had to do . . "
My divine mother , the one and only Jamuna 🙏🏽🕉❤️
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(Reposting) Mere statements on
#hinduphobia
won't change reality. India must step up for indigenous, pagan, polytheist cultures everywhere and convene action-oriented global conference asap.
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My response to recent commentaries on communal tensions in India and the dangers of one-sided news coverage setting the tone and agenda (and some useful links in replies below)
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My new piece in
@firstpost
on America's first "Ministry of Propaganda" and what India lacks presently in pursuing its global aspirations:
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Is
@GemsOfBollywood
a Man in the High Castle moment for Hindus ? Why we should take the
#ujjain
#mahakal
protests against Bollywood elitism and
#hinduphobia
seriously
#hinduphobic_bollywood
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"
@VivekGRamaswamy
has struck a chord in the once insular American conservative community, inspiring hope for America and at least some respect for his ancestral cultural heritage with his eloquent words" - from my new article in
@firstpost
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"When a foreigner is told 'go back to your country,' the good American liberal is trained to call it racism. But when a brown-skinned foreigner is yelled at by a white American and called a 'fascist' no one knows whether it is indeed 'racism' anymore, quite conveniently."…
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India's dynamic MEA should have had our own, respectably-funded and professionally-run "Foreign Policy" journal going by now. All "our" Tweets and Whatsapps will be lost like tears in the rain and only "their" Journals and Books will remain as prisons for the coming generations…
People are saying that these propaganda articles have no effect on Indian elections. True.
Most Indians don't even understand the game that is being played. The purpose of writing these articles is not to influence Indian elections.
The purpose is to create a negative image of…
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If I recall this was from the last Bommala Koluvu done in Madras 1976 before we shifted fully to Hyderabad.
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"Perhaps only a Hindu exodus from the Democratic party ... will demonstrate some semblance of purpose and self-respect."
My take on
@VivekGRamaswamy
#Hindu
talk, Harvard prof's NYT oped fear-mongering about Hindus, SB403,
#hinduphobia
during
@TulsiGabbard
's 2020 run, "Heathen"…
#ExpressOpinion
| Many anti-racist white liberals in US find it convenient to forget that the Hindu immigrants they freely denigrate as fascists happen to be people of colour who have no way of escaping the vulnerabilities of race
Vamsee Juluri writes:
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Indian origin people being religiously profiled by 'liberal' racist zealots in california. Temples & consulates being attacked. Hindooo Amrikans boasting like bozos. Indian government 'backsliding' into 50s era 'your internal affairs' diffidence - They smeared your CAA for 4…
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I obviously support what Douglas Murray says on this issue and some others. But what I find strange is that Murray and many conservatives in the West call out all the lies in the media except when it comes to lies about India/Hindus. Real convenient forgetting when gora doras…
This is the best interview I have EVER seen.
Ever; ever; ever; nothing comes close.
Douglas Murrey has a heart – and mind – of gold.
And what unfolds in this seven-minute clip is something you need to watch for yourself. (Once you see it halfway through, you’ll know exactly…
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Dear Friends: I am happy to announce that my book Rearming Hinduism which was unavailable since its old publisher closed some time ago will be re-launched in June 2024 with a new introduction & afterword covering events from 2014-24. Wait for more info from me and my new…
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what a truly sad state of affairs
seattle passes laws based on lies about evil brahmin oppressors while this poor girl is laughed about like this
TANA, Temples, AP Telangana CMs, G20 Gaga people of Delhi, big Hindu CEO no one will speak . what use your GDP mania when your…
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Vile! I hope Hindus in America realize from this shameless dance around denying anti-semitism that the answer to academic Hinduphobia is not through their perceived affinity to leadership/ big-shots/ high society etc.
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My latest article in The Indian Express: "Anti-Israel Sentiment on American Campuses is a Warning for Hindus."
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Dear friends, thank you for your wishes and support these difficult last few hours. My mother passed away yesterday just after my plane took off from SFO. I survived the last 20 hours airborne with your words and am overwhelmed with gratitude for your love for her. 🕉
#jamuna
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Spoke to a mutual friend yesterday and feel deeply saddened . When you watch the video you see a kind and decent man patiently upholding a truth for his children and community as a seemingly mostly White committee lords over the process.
SB403 has become the center of a circus…
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Here's OUR snarling, hypermuscular Hindu lion-dad, dear silly pee-pant
#NYTimes
puddy-tats !
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"When I think of Riddhi Patel’s outburst what comes to mind is not "Zionism" or "Hindu Fascism" but Jonathan Haidt's new book, The Anxious Generation.
From about 2012-15, US teenagers (Gen Z, born 1995-2010) showed sharp rises in anxiety, depression, and self-harm—due to coming…
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Never surrender. Amma's first movie role, which never got completed.
Amma's first release, a flop. Amma's first election, Mangalagiri, a loss. But. Jamuna. Still. Forever. Always.
On, the 1st anniversary of her passing, 1/27/2024, let us celebrate her. (my video sharing an…
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(1/n) I'm making a thread on schools, civics textbooks & children's books (ACK, storybooks etc.) teaching children about social injustice, inequality and political activism. Starting with NCERT Class 7 (2017 I think?):
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Just the other day
@halleyji
tweeted how naive it is to think only liberal arts kids are 'woke'.
I've been arguing for years against H leaders who say "just make your kids do STEM/MBA" and Hinduism will win. NOPE! Ms. Riddhi Patel is a Neuroscience Major (see SS in reply)…
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Parents call anti-Hindu racists "Liberals" instead of just "racists." What do Hindu children think when they hear a pleasant, reasonable epithet like "Liberal" used to describe people lying and spewing hatred for Hindu gods, festivals, traditions?
They come to think such hate…
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My cousin was a student in Patiala. Passed away after a sudden illness a few weeks before this happened. Big shock to all of us, he was only 22. Makes this seem very close.
As
@hinduparenting
says, Hindu parents have to start sharing this unpleasant history of antiHindu hate…
World knows about Tiananmen Square Massacπe 1989 but nobody knows about Thapar Engineering College Massacπe 1989 were KhaIistani trrorist slipped quietly to the dormitory where 24 students were asleep, burst in & opened fiπe with rifIes.
On this day, 11 Nov 1989, 19 Innocent…
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Who can help me make a high quality documentary of record with these ?
I interviewed these legends of puranic cinema back in 2006. Anyone concerned about the future of Indian art after the recent 'abominable ramaayan' might have much to learn from the makers of the 'cinema of…
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Greetings on this cold October Monday morning. There were 1600 people tuned into this vibrant 4 hour conversation yesterday to talk about Hindu survival in the face of growing propaganda, bigotry and madness.
How many of these 1600 people are at a desk this morning in a paid…
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US Parents: if you don't learn to fight
#Hinduphobia
right your kids won't just become non-Hindus but will become extreme ANTI-Hindus! My take on
#RiddhiPatel
the pro-Palestine activist who threatened to murder Bakersfield City Council officials and faces severe punishment.…
'Indian American parents have a new task. Teach kids to recognise Hinduphobia, fight it'
@vamseejuluri
, professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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Death camps? Cannibalizing the 'useless eaters' of the priestly caste? Native American type forced boarding schools? What exactly will "eradicating sanathana dharma" take? And after how many generations is the sin cleansed? Nazism, Inquisition, Propaganda...…
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My take on the Bollywood bratpack and their contemptuous attitude towards the public.
#ICYMI
Hinduphobia is quite apparent in Bollywood too. Unlike their parents or grandparents, today’s Bollywood bratpack seems to wear its arrogance and disdain for the public on its sleeves
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We need a simple 2-Types model for temples:
1) traditional/ecosensitive kshetras: respect nature & local sampradayas; don't touristify, avoid footfall craze
2) big modern BAPs style temples in new places: go for it!
@raghucdp
@halleyji
@infinitchy
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My article in
@IndianExpress
on
#KantaraMovie
& global revival of indigenous traditions, from Native American classics like God is Red to the forest gods of Tulunadu/Karnataka/India - "regional" is indeed the best way to "universal"!
@shetty_rishab
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#Oppenheimer
#hinduphobia
#racisthollywood
#reelbadarabs
#orientalism
#heathen
Dirt, Death, Sex:
A Theory of Hollywood Heathen Hate
Half my enthusiasm (and my fandango convenience fee) vanished this morning when I saw tweets about how the Gita reference was done (1/n)
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My latest in The Indian Express. Sorry to poke a hole in all the fun but reality check is in order 🙏🏽🇺🇸🇮🇳🕉
#ModiInUSA
#ExpressOpinion
| Hindu Americans have no voice. PM Modi's meetings with US 'thought leaders' cannot change this fact, writes Vamsee Juluri
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"The South Asia Faculty group submitted two letters to the IQC, in November 2015 and again in February 2016...Their stated position, spelled out on the top of page 12 in their November letter, was that 'most references to India before 1947 should be changed to 'South Asia.'
Since INDIA, SOUTH ASIA & BHARAT are in the news a repost of my 2016 HuffPost article on the California textbooks move to rename India as South Asia. Our petition got 20K signatures made waves so LA Times did a hit job saying 'no one is erasing India.' My response:…
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#hinduphobia
is not just geopolitical but downright existential psycho problem for the kind of storytellers Nutflix promotes. He ain't coming (He/She/Any Pronoun U Like). You want to wait you wait. Stop trashing on the rest of us who didn't fall for tawdry scams and kept…
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"Hindus in Hindu Rashtra" tears and pleas before a cold-hearted state, one day at a time...
Who seals the millionaire real estate developers' offices for building over lake-beds?
Or the industrial manufacturers or retailers who haven't banned unnecessary plastic packaging…
“ எல்லாம் வட்டிக்கு காசு வாங்கி பண்ண சிலைங்க அய்யா, தயுவுசெஞ்சி விட்டுடுங்க...” கெமிக்கல் கலந்து செய்யப்பட்டதாக 10 லட்சம் மதிப்புள்ள விநாயகர் சிலைகளுக்கு சீல் வைத்த அதிகாரிகள்... காவலர்களிடம் கண்ணீர் மல்க கெஞ்சிய பெண்
➤சுங்ககேட், கரூர்
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What is happening?
Propaganda everywhere
Propaganda every day
To survive, always ask: what are the strings that you do not see/ that are never depicted?
To start, yes, you can ask 'will they dare to show this with community X or their holy song?' because that's how Twitter…
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It's on Telugu news. It happened in Pithapuram, AP. News report suggests that the priest was humiliated deliberately so they could record his reactions and post on social media which is how it went public. VHP et al are there and seeking an apology.
#hinduphobia
#blackmirror
Found more details
This happened in Pitapuram Mulapeta, AP. Purohit name is Surya narayana Sharma. Hindu and Brahmin groups are trying to help.
Found a contact of the reporter, will speak with them tomorrow
If anyone from that place, let me know
Thanks
@padhi_chinmoy
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I hope the hundreds of Indians including some of my own friends and cousins who campaigned and donated to her will get educated and wise up (some have , and say they are 'crying' with regret).
Today, we successfully held our FIRST RECALL WAHAB rally at Fremont City Council, right in front of Senator Wahab. It was a great start, and we're committed to seeing this through to a successful recall in the coming months. Let's keep up the momentum and work towards our goal.
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Outrageous to see the videos from Australia and elsewhere demonizing Israelis/Jews after what they have just suffered. Weapons-grade victim-blaming.
FWIW, sharing my HuffPost article from 2008 just after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks when P. Mishra etc. just did a "Kashmir" instead…
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Vaikuntha Samaradhana 🙏🏽
Wonderful memory from the last time we met.
Is there a greater joy for a writer than a mother's pride ?
#Jamuna
#jamunaouramma
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Hyderabad attack on Hindu students should be a wake-up call to Hindus to change their suicidally incompetent communication strategies in the global propaganda war.
Hyderabad attack shows a reality that parents, politicians, and social media users don’t seem to understand at all, writes
@VamseeJuluri
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Since INDIA, SOUTH ASIA & BHARAT are in the news a repost of my 2016 HuffPost article on the California textbooks move to rename India as South Asia. Our petition got 20K signatures made waves so LA Times did a hit job saying 'no one is erasing India.' My response:…
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From my new piece on why Hindus lack a sense of collective harm:
"Hindus, therefore, cannot organically think of every other Hindu as their own, because the moment you go beyond biology, every form of group identification has perhaps been created artificially, as nation (the…
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Slightly disagree. Not 0, but there are maybe 10-20 academics who do bat for truth. Problem is that H genocide apologists/deniers in academia number in the 1000s or at least 100s.
Our numbers are small (H academics in social sciences), but our work has been decent, and could…
@VamseeJuluri
How do you explain the fact that you are essentially lecturing to an empty classroom? With hardly any Hindus even? What explains there being 0 academic/intellectual voices that note that Hindus are the only people against whom it is ok to plot a Genocide per UN definition?
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"Paganphobia is deeply entwined in the worldview of some who are fighting anti-Semitism today, and all the internet bonhomie between Israel and India will not wash it away automatically"
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I was recently recalling a line from the South Asia faculty letter of 2015/16 on India/ SA history textbooks issue which said Baburnama could be introduced to California school kids as an example of early "humanism"... and now this quote in Anand Ranganathan's book !
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(4/n) Why their obsession with our gods ? I have a theory based on how the show ended ... but funny aside: she goes to hide in Andhra Pradesh !
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"California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB403, the controversial caste bill introduced by Aisha Wahab.
Coming as this did in the wake of the horrifying attacks on Israel by Hamas, and the heartless blame-the-victim response to the same by some South Asian activists in…
#ExpressOpinion
| Jews and Brahmins — West would like you to see them as oppressors alone. They are victims
Vamsee Juluri (
@VamseeJuluri
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On
#hanumanjayanti2024
#hanuman
hears it clear and loud. Imagine Bharat's capital city being renamed for the greatest cultural figure associated with it.
Statesman. Ambassador. Kingdom-builder. Dharma-teacher. Cosmos himself.
Krishnarajyapeetha, capital of Bharat/India...
(or…
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Brilliant story-telling every bit carefully crafted and on target .... one of the smartest political ads ever! Win Bigly persuasion-power.
@MEAIndia
hire this agency to do a global "Why you scared of India?" campaign to shake up the snotty racists of bbc nyt wapo etc. and their…
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Bizarre review in Time which complains that Dev Patel's Monkey Man isn't anti-Hindutva enough. Gunga din poo diving contest going on! And the movie apparently has an "escort named Sita" who is kidnapped.
Dev Patel seems to be a real-life version of his child character in Slumdog Millionaire: so blinded by celebrity he will dive headlong into a lake of sewage. Wonder if SM handlers saw his 'I will shit on my own culture for you massa' Gungadin cravenness and wrote that scene.
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Lots of deities in her house ok, and then of course, as she is revealed to be a mass killer and potential child killer too, she has to now go full Hindoo with Nataraja rituals to welcome aliens in the desert (2/n)
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is this correct? i thought only nepal students signed but withdrew.
please share what south asia studies faculty and their mental hostages are saying, harvard and elsewhere
maybe i will write and pitch an article to all the prestigious higher education forums which ignored my…
Sravya Tadepalli, who signed off on the Harvard Students Union letter in support of Hamas/Palestine and blaming Israel for the terror attack, is also on the Board of Directors of the Anti-Hindu organisation "Hindus For Human Rights" (HFHR).
HFHR brands Hindutva as a fascist…
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Telugu jati manadi 🙏🏽✊🏾
Excellent thread on Telugu cinema's Ramayana themed titles (and humbled of course by my mother having acted in at least four of them !)
Telugu mythological films, are an ingenious genre; so much so that the term itself is often a misnomer. Now that Adipurish is releasing tomorrow, here's a thread of movies based on Ramayana in Telugu Language.(Please Retweet the first tweet, if you appreciate the thread).
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Ring of cult followers, high priestess, Temple of Doom, Eyes Wide Shut vibes etc. (3/n)
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Why should 1945 conference with its religious biases/agendas still be the last word for UN? India should lead NAM 2.0 for indigenous, polytheist, pagan/kafir hate survivors with new SFO UN conference!
@ambtstirumurti
@DrSJaishankar
#hinduphobia
#INDIGENOUS
#swastika
#manji
India’s
#UN
mission should back up statements on religiophobia with concrete action on anti-
#Hindu
, anti-Buddhist hate speech, writes
@VamseeJuluri
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(5/n) Grand positive emotions climax after heathen hindu's arrest invokes basically the same dumbass megalomaniac dreams they've had from 0 AD to Sentinel Islands today: 'why can't everyone be same-samed zonbied like me?'
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Congratulations and thank you Cohna. Anti-Hinduphobia legislation, training, education , next. Keep going.
Delighted to see sanity prevail in
#California
. Thank you
@GavinNewsom
for vetoing
#SB403
. A victory for common sense, for American laws and a win for those who fought for
#justice
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sick sad world! you would think the lefties who don't care about hindus anyway would at least avoid native american headdress mockery.. goes to show that so-called left liberals are really the far right. education reform should be a top priority beyond politics.
Puducherry university students put up this skit mocking and belittling Hindu Gods Ram, Sita and Hanuman. As a devotee of Ram I feel hurt and angry. I strongly condemn this act of the insensitive, immature, uncouth, uninformed and uncultured students who could think of coming up…
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All we are is dust in the wind? Or the 'wind' in the 'dust cage' of our dehas that is rising soaring roaring ever within taking us breath after breath birth after birth till it feels thunder Garuda wing flap turbulence of
hope and we know oh yes we will know we are hOMe again…
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Dev Patel seems to be a real-life version of his child character in Slumdog Millionaire: so blinded by celebrity he will dive headlong into a lake of sewage. Wonder if SM handlers saw his 'I will shit on my own culture for you massa' Gungadin cravenness and wrote that scene.
1. As they can’t fight Hindu culture expansion then they do the obvious by trying to take over by wearing a new mask as this Gungadin Dev Patel does by wearing a Hanuman Mask to push a Hinduphobic narrative in his latest movie ‘Monkey Man’
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Imagine the millions of impressionable Indians in schools, colleges, offices seeing this and hundreds of sly deceptions like this which over the years have confirmed to them that the "caste pyramid" they see in textbooks with "Brahmins" on top floor 3BHK penthouse is absolutely…
Victim: ST woman
Murdered by : Her father
Whom she wanted to marry: A SC man
Headline: " Man kills daighter for being in love with Dalit"
Where: Nandi brand paper
Reporter: Prajwal D'souza
ಇಂಥ ಅಯೋಗ್ಯ ವರದಿಗೆ ಎಷ್ಟು ಅಂಕ ಕೊಡಬಹುದು ಗೆಳೆಯರೇ? 🤮
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6/n) Then, they all look up paavam like for God to Come down from sky (UFO part over), resurrection hints and all. Happy ending (for non pagans). But just think: they've had the SAME story for 2K years; waiting for Sky Savior, Hating on Old Gods like Shiva, only change is they…
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"If Indian storytellers (and their soft-power think-tank-type friends) don’t get the global landscape of tastes, sensibilities, and desires today, even the most seemingly important truths to Indian audiences will be callously dismissed by others."
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Key takeaways from Info/Comm POV from this talk:
1) 95% of Indians in US seem unaware of caste bill, propaganda in media etc.- when Cohna volunteers talk in parking lots etc. most are unaware (around 4 minute mark)
2) Politicians hardly understand, but fall for 'civil rights'…
How
#HinduAmericans
defeated
#SB403
& what lies ahead! Thanks
@VJjha
for spotlighting
#CasteInUS
which continues to be a fake narrative the community has to fight off. The damage already done is immense & needs rectification. Join
#CoHNA
in this battle
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I request all my friends to please RT this article by
@pushpita
on Shri Milind Makwana, the Bay Area community leader whose memory is profoundly honored today by Governor
@GavinNewsom
's decision to do the right thing (short of declaring SB403 false, misleading & Hinduphobic):…
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My thoughts on the generational implications of Dr
@DrSJaishankar
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Both tragic and amusing to see Hindu American diaspora parents shuddering about what indoctrination awaits their children in
college while doing zilch to involve actual college professors who can actually help. Maybe they think the politician uncles (USA and India both) will come…
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"A few years ago, it was customary for newspapers to report after a terrorist attack that members of a community had 'rushed to donate blood for the victims.'
Today, after the single most egregious act of mass slaughter in recent history against…
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My essay for
#MothersDay2023
on my mother
#jamuna
, losing parents, being parents,
#gifted
children and schools, Indian-American polarization
#caste
#hinduphobia
and more from
@AmericanKahani
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"By clicking delete you acknowledge that..."
Hi
@elonmusk
@lindayacc
@Twitter
: our awesome Mother Goddess runs into some nasty cultural mistranslation on your site as porn. I advise some immediate pujas in a Kali temple to mitigate bad karma (Or, just invite a local Hindu…
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One billion addled-heads go gaga over wealth and rihanna while friends of a Saraswati-putra have to struggle for attention and help like this :(
“A young, brilliant classical dancer from India goes to USA to do a PhD in his craft. Believing that he’s in a ‘greater’ nation, closer to his dreams. One evening he just vanishes.
Day 2 missing reports do rounds.
Day 3, friends are told he’s shot.
Day 4, no updates…
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Some lessons for Hindu & Indian kids, parents, teachers in the wake of Texas bully choking video & other concerns. Reorient weekend kids' Hindu classes from "Character-Career-Cope" curriculum to find Clarity & Courage against Hinduphobia:
‘Don’t speak up, keep your head down, get good marks and good jobs and that’s good enough,’ seems to be the unspoken policy of the Hindu community in the United States, writes
@VamseeJuluri
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this is a "cultural" program the teacher says while expelling the speaker for saying the name synonymous with culture in the land for hundreds of generations.
hope the audience which shouted JSR first also walked out.
Beaten for wearing a bindi; whipped for sporting a tilak; stopped from chanting Gayatri mantra; thrashed for flaunting a kalawa - and today, thrown out for merely reciprocating a Jai Shri Ram greeting. This is how teachers treat Hindu children. No outrage.
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"If a Hindu temple is attacked, the word for is 'Hinduphobic' not 'anti-India'" - lessons on identity, nationalism and communication in the wake of RRR and the diaspora's growing visibility, and vulnerability.
#ExpressOpinion
| RRR is more evocative of a harmony between the universal, national and local than critics would admit
Vamsee Juluri writes:
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My article in
@IndianExpress
on the silence in academia over anti-Hindu violence in South Asia:
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My latest in IE: Hinduphobia and half-truths: What Western media gets wrong about India, its elections via
@IndianExpress
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"Disinformation"/ propaganda research and activism has become the biggest cesspool of propaganda in recent times...
Hamas enthusiast Qatar🇶🇦 is irritated at massive Indian🇮🇳 support of Israel🇮🇱 -
so of course, Al-Jazeera made a doc explaining that Indians are just being duped by "misinformation" ⬇️
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How the "Deva or Nartaka?" question in
#KantaraTheLegend
made me think about time, life and the roles we play in them:
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"literally the word of god" ? 'Gita' is 'song' and not 'word' isn't it?
Variety writers ought to do better !
And associating sex with hindu gods / scriptures is a recurring kirkiri in western pop culture (Eyes Wide Shut, Friends)
'Oppenheimer' Sacred Text Reading Sex Scene Raises Hackles in India: 'This is a Direct Assault on Religious Beliefs of a Billion Tolerant Hindus'
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Quite a salvo!
"Islamophobia is a propaganda term which entered wide usage in the Anglophone world no earlier than the eighties. Unlike antisemitism, it does not describe a system or pattern of oppression or hatred that has affected many people throughout history."
Defining…
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1,200 Israelis not equal to half a George Floyd for American students. What led to this? via
@theprintindia
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2014 madison square garden
2015 "intolerance" and go-rakshaks
2016 "south asia" campaign in california textbooks
2018 chicago world hindu congress
2019 elections, 370, CAA riots
2022 Kashi Vishwanath & Qatar, UK riots.
All the narrative wars analyzed:
On 2 October, the New York Times published an advertisement featuring an open letter alleging severe human rights atrocities by the Indian govt, but only diasporic Hindu organisations responded on Twitter and not the Indian government, writes
@VamseeJuluri
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11th Day
#jamunaourmother
#jamuna
Sampradayic Puja at Janardhan Dhama and then a loving tribute to their muddu bidda by Praja Natya Mandali at Hyderabad Film Chambers 🙏🏽
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