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5 things to know about Balarama

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s Resolution on India Misses the Mark

Education Living Dharma

In Hinduism, what is the relationship between spirituality and health?

Education Living Dharma

How Jagannatha’s discovery in a store led to America’s first ever Ratha Yatra: Part 2

Education Living Dharma

How Jagannatha’s discovery in a store led to America’s first ever Ratha Yatra: Part 1

Education Living Dharma

Why Hinduism isn’t only a theistic tradition

Advocacy Education

Hinduism beyond India: Africa

Education Living Dharma

How Hinduism’s relationship with nature can help solve the ecological crisis

Education Living Dharma

All about Janakpur: the city of Sita’s birth

Ashta siddhis are recipes for success without stress

Education Living Dharma

All about the Hanuman Chalisa

In what upside down world is Kashmiri Hindus talking about their own ethnic cleansing a form of violence against Muslims?

Education Living Dharma

Lahore was once a center of Hindu culture. That culture now hangs by a thread.

Education Living Dharma

The untold story of Ravana

Education Living Dharma

Dhakeshwari: the Goddess of Dhaka

Advocacy Education Things To Know

5 things to know about Hindu challenges in Malaysia

Are Hindus actually going to commit genocide in India? No.

Education Living Dharma

What do Hindu names mean?

Education Living Dharma

All about Narsinh Mehta

Decades after arriving Pakistani Hindu refugees in India still facing significant challenges (Part Two)

Decades after arriving Pakistani Hindu refugees in India still facing significant challenges (Part One)

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Atukuri Molla: Of pottery and poetry

Education Living Dharma

All about Kabir

The symbolism of Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer

Education Living Dharma Things To Know

Rudrashtakam: What does this prayer mean?

Education Living Dharma Things To Know

Cupid, sure. But do you know about Kamadeva? 5 stories of love and lust in Hinduism

Samartha Ramdas: The 11 Hanumans

Education Living Dharma Things To Know

5 things Dharmic faiths have in common

Advocacy On The Issues

Is India really a ‘settler colonial state’ in Kashmir? Not hardly.

Advocacy Things To Know

5 things to know about Hindu challenges in Sri Lanka

All about Tiruvalluvar: Wisdom in seven words

Education Living Dharma

Hinduism beyond India: Trinidad and Tobago

All about Gondavalekar Maharaj: Sri Ram, Jai Ram, Jai Jai Ram

Education Living Dharma

How to start living in the mode of goodness

Who was that Hare Krishna at the start of “Get Back”?

How Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan brought Indian classical music to America

Education Living Dharma

Here’s how Ayurveda can help you get through this winter

Education Living Dharma

Divya Alter’s Sweet Potato Smoothie (Recipe)

Is Bangladesh a secular country? An interview with Subrata Chowdhury.

Education Living Dharma

The symbolism of Ravana’s 10 heads

Education Things To Know

Dogs and Diwali? 5 things to know about Hinduism and hu(man’s) best friend

Advocacy On The Issues

What is happening in Bangladesh? An on the ground Hindu activist shares his thoughts.

Adams, Emerson, Thoreau: How Hinduism influenced some of America’s greatest thinkers

Education Living Dharma

On being a voice in the global kirtan choir: Jahnavi Harrison

Our leaders are never perfect. But we can still look to imperfect people for inspiration.

What does Hindutva really mean?

Cultured meat and animal-free dairy upends the plant-based food discussion

Education Living Dharma

The power of music, according to Hinduism

Guru Vandana: Salutations to the teacher

Advocacy On The Issues

What it’s like to grow up African American, and a Hindu

Education Shakti Initiative Things To Know

5 things to know about Radharani

Advocacy On The Issues

How the Taliban will affect women’s rights in Pakistan: Sindhi activist Dr. Greenwood gives us her thoughts

Advocacy On The Issues

5 ways the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference is Hinduphobic

Add your voice: How to contact schools sponsoring Dismantling Global Hindutva

Advocacy Education

Hinduism beyond India: Guyana

Advocacy On The Issues

Deconstructing is an academic exercise. Dismantling is not.

Correct, Hindutva is not the same thing as Hinduism

There is no Hindu Taliban (I can’t believe I have to say this)

Advocacy On The Issues

Why does the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference seem more about dismantling Hinduism than anything else?

CAA is needed now more than ever: Recent events in South Asia show why

Education Things To Know

5 things to know about Onam

Advocacy Education

Hinduism beyond India: Afghanistan

What are the nine steps of Hindu devotion?

Advocacy On The Issues

Caste in India and caste in the US: What we’ve learned from latest two surveys

Education Living Dharma

What is kirtan?

Advocacy On The Issues

5 takeaways from the Pew survey on India

Hinduism beyond India: Java

The Hindu Roots of Yoga: The Saptarishis

Dharmarath : The Chariot of God

Shakti Initiative

Sri Sarada Devi: The Universal Mother

Education Things To Know

Appreciating the fathers of Hinduism

Shikhandi: the Mahabharata’s transgender warrior

Advocacy On The Issues

5 takeaways about Hindu Americans from the latest Carnegie survey

Homosexuality isn’t a Western import to India, but bigotry against LGBT people is

Letter to the Editor of India Abroad from Mihir Meghani, April 2006

Hinduism beyond India: Bali

Buddhist mindfulness is all the rage, but Hinduism has a deep meditation tradition too

Shakti Initiative

All about Devi Sita

Education Things To Know

5 things to know about sadhus

Education Things To Know

The seven mothers of Hinduism

We must break the silence on the Bengali Hindu genocide

Education Things To Know

5 things to know about Hanuman

Advocacy On The Issues

The Concert for Bangladesh: how a spiritual friendship led to the world’s first benefit concert

Shakti Initiative

Sri Mata Amritanandamayi: The Revered Hugging Saint

Education Things To Know

5 things to know about Ugadi

That’s So Hindu – Ashok Karmakar recounts the Bengali Hindu Genocide

That’s So Hindu – Prof. Chris Fici successfully balances being a scholar and bhakti yogi

Bangladesh’s 1971 genocide still echoes today

Shakti Initiative

Amma Sri Karunamayi: A Mother With No Borders

5 things to know about Holi

That’s So Hindu – Bhuwan Pyakurel: The former refugee from Bhutan who’s now a city councilor in Ohio

Advocacy Things To Know

5 things to know about the 1971 Bengali Hindu genocide

The Like Button: An Ancient Cause of Suffering?

That’s So Hindu – Mandar Apte: film director, meditation teacher and peace activist

5 things to know about Maha Shivaratri

50 years after genocide, Bangladesh’s promise of pluralism remains unfulfilled

That’s So Hindu – Dr Pankaj Jain on the history of the Hindu-Jain diaspora in America

Shakti Initiative Things To Know

Ma Yoga Shakti: An embodiment of female divinity

That’s So Hindu – Ravinol Chambers, the Hindu monk who became a filmmaker

5 things to know about Vasant Panchami

That’s So Hindu – Rukhsana Hasib was an eyewitness to the 1971 Bengali Hindu Genocide

Coping with death: a Hindu perspective

That’s So Hindu – Manjari Sharma explores how to wear a sari

5 things to know about tilak

Shakti Initiative Things To Know

Ma Ganga is more than a river, she’s a goddess

Sanskrit words you might be pronouncing incorrectly

That’s So Hindu – What Hindu Americans can expect from the Biden-Harris administration

Advocacy On The Issues

US Green Card reform then and now

30 years after exodus: remembering a Kashmir that once was

How is the nonviolence of Gandhi and MLK still relevant today? Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. and Dr. Veena R. Howard have some answers

Photos: Hindu Kashmiri Pandit returns to her homeland, 30 years after exile

That’s So Hindu – Film producer and animal welfare advocate Nirva Patel makes a compelling dharmic case for eating a vegan diet

Lohri, Makar Sankranti, and Pongal: India’s winter harvest festivals

Why California’s lawsuit against Cisco uniquely endangers Hindus and Indians

That’s So Hindu – Prof. Jeffery Long on Hindu themes in Star Wars, misunderstandings on caste, and more

That’s So Hindu – 85 incidents of murder, gang rape, temple destruction in 66 days: Richard Benkin on the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh

That’s So Hindu: It’s through our sacred stories that Hinduism has and will continue to survive – Ami and Amit Majmudar

That’s So Hindu: Melanie Chandra says the work of acting is about becoming messy

Why giving without getting anything in return is the gateway to happiness

Shakti Initiative

Ma Kali

Shakti Initiative

Ashta Lakshmi: the eight forms of Lakshmi

A Diwali Greeting from Our Executive Director 2020

How to conduct a traditional 16-step Hindu puja

5 things to know about Diwali

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Karwa Chauth: How Hindu couples honor each other on this fall holiday

Houses of worship, religious freedom, young girls all under attack in Pakistan

5 things to know about dharma

What do The Matrix, Avatar, Groundhog Day, and Star Wars have to do with Hinduism? A lot more than you might think

Countless Americans have been influenced by Swami Vivekananda, even if many don’t know who he is

Shakti Initiative Things To Know

9 things to know about Navaratri

Advocacy Things To Know

5 things to know about Hindus in Pakistan

5 things to know about Ayurveda: India’s ancient medical system

Who was Patanjali and what are the Yoga Sutras?

Veda Vyasa: the sage who compiled the Vedas

5 things to know about karma and reincarnation

5 things to know about Hindus and death

Navagrahas: the planets of Vedic astrology

On The Issues Things To Know

5 things to know about Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan

Ganesha Chaturthi: the day to celebrate Ganesha’s birth

5 things to know about Vedic astrology

5 things to know about Ratha Yatra

Kansas Congressman leading anti-Hindu Kashmir resolution loses GOP primary

Janmashtami: the day to celebrate Krishna’s birth

What is Ratha Yatra and why is it celebrated?

One year later, what do Kashmiri Hindus think about the repeal of Articles 370 & 35A?

5 things to know about Raksha Bandhan

5 things to know about Om

That’s So Hindu: Easan Katir tells us how to align our beliefs with our stock portfolios through Dharmic Investing

Why Indians’ color bias actually has nothing to do with Hinduism

What are the modes of nature and how can we rise above them in uncertain times?

That’s So Hindu: Kanchan Koya explains how one secret of good health is Spice Space Baby

That’s So Hindu: Mango & Marigold Press and Modi Toys are helping Hindu parents pass on traditions to their kids

Guru Purnima: the day to pay respects to the guru

5 things to know about 108

That’s So Hindu: Sudarshan Ramabadran explains the importance of the soft power India holds in yoga and Ayurveda

5 things to know about visiting a Hindu temple

That’s So Hindu: Brahmachari Sharan says Hindus need to focus on understanding our history, so we can become part of the world’s present

Why we should not tear down statues of Gandhi

5 things to know about Ganesha

Tribalism is pulling us apart. Our deepest commonality will pull us together.

Ending casteism doesn’t require eradicating Hinduism. To suggest otherwise is itself bigotry.

That’s So Hindu: Middle East Forum’s Sam Westrop and Clifford Smith in conversation with Samir Kalra

Shakti Initiative

Auvaiyaar, the female poet-saints of Tamil Nadu

Daily yajna/sacrifice: an imperative for a sustainable world

Dharma demands us to fight for racial justice

That’s So Hindu: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee connects the dots between terrorism, Pakistan, and the Kashmir conflict

If India’s rivers are so revered, why are they so polluted and what are Hindus doing about it?

That’s So Hindu: Guru Prakash and Suhag Shukla talk about what we can do to end caste discrimination

Watch all HAF Coping with COVID webinars

That’s So Hindu: Rukmini Walker feels the pandemic pause is bringing us closer to one another

Namastay Healthy with HAF: Chef Divya Returns for Ayurvedic Principles in Italian Cooking

That’s So Hindu: Phil Goldberg says Hinduism has been influencing America longer than you think

Denying Hindus food aid in a pandemic emblematic of Pakistan’s minority rights problem

HAF partners with HungerMitao on #GivingTuesdayNow to provide meals during COVID-19 Pandemic

Coping with COVID: A Dialogue with Deepak Chopra™, MD featuring Eddie Stern

5 more ways Hindu Americans are helping during the COVID pandemic, and an update…

Education Living Dharma

COVID-19 and the Rise of Cyberbullying: Examining Interactions During Isolation

7 Ways Hindu Americans can help during the COVID pandemic

Coping with COVID Webinar: Boosting Immunity with Divya Alter

Coping with COVID webinar: Building immunity with Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Which face of the Goddess do we wish to see?

Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan marked for death: What the United States can & should do

Coping with COVID: Manage stress and anxiety with yoga and meditation, featuring Eddie Stern

How Hindu spiritual practices can help manage your COVID-19 anxiety

The Power of Namaste

US lawmakers should read the Lautenberg Amendment before censuring India’s Citizenship Amendment Act

We must respect the wisdom yoga gurus pass on, but never lose our own moral compass

Steve Bannon has a CliffsNotes understanding of dharma

From the moment I sat down at my desk at the State Department I was treated as a foreign service officer, not just an intern.

In August leading Western media failed in their coverage of Kashmir

Living Dharma On The Issues

Bhakti yoga as an foundational eco-spiritual practice

HAF Summer Interns Meet Dr Tara Kartha at USIP

How mainstream media continue to get it wrong on Kashmir

The Washington Post’s Kashmir coverage is neither fair, nor accurate, nor comprehensive

The Weaponization of “Hindutva”: When the Hindutva Label Is Used to Harm Hindu Americans – Part II

The Weaponization of “Hindutva”: Same Words, Different Meanings – Part 1

Why Bernie is so wrong on Kashmir

On The Issues Things To Know

Kashmir, Right Now: 6 Things You Need to Know

BBC Complaints Team Misses the Point in Our “Jai Shri Ram” Article Critique

The Kashmir conflict isn’t about independence and democracy. It’s about expanding theocracy in South Asia.

8 Things You May Want to Know About Gurus

BREAKING NEWS: Hindu Americans Financially Support Hindu American Politician – The Height of Hinduphobic Political Reporting

Yoga, India’s Soft Power: Balancing the Sacred and the Secular

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Why Navaratri is my favorite festival of the year

Hindus, do your dharma: Vote… and then light your diya

Being an HAF summer intern was both adventurous and informative

The danger of Brett Kavanaugh’s disdain for the wall of separation

What Idolatry Means in Hinduism

USCIRF: The “Mission for International Christian Freedom”

Pride Month, Reflections on Hinduism

Yoga’s DNA: The Yama and Niyama

The Purpose of the Bindi

Upanayana: a Hindu rite of passage

Namaste: A Pathway to Unity

Equality Labs’ social hierarchy survey misdirected at Hindus

Discrimination in Hinduism: What’s Hinduism and What’s Just Human Nature?

A Direct Connection for Hindu American Students

Why Black Panther’s references to Hinduism are significant in Hollywood

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Hinduism 101: Women and Hinduism

Shakti Initiative

In Search Of The Menstruating Goddess

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Lakshmi: Goddess of Prosperity

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Meerabai

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Menstrual taboos and ancient wisdom

On The Issues Shakti Initiative

Remember the Goddess Within Us

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Rādhā: The Queen of Worship

When The New Yorker Otherized Tulsi Gabbard’s Faith

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Navaratri, Rosh Hashanah and the Equinox: All Times for New Beginnings and Reflection

4 Things About Hinduism and Vegetarianism

Why caste is so complex, and how students can better learn about it

What the West is Missing Out on in Yoga

FAQs About HAF’s Involvement in the 2017 California Textbook Adoption Process

Why Are Journalists So Concerned About Penises in Hinduism?

Why Do Our Textbooks Still Present Hinduism Like We’re Still in the Colonial Era?

Two Organizations, One Mission

It’s Our Responsibility to Treat All People as Divine

Bangladesh’s Battle to Reclaim its Secular Roots

On the Verge of Extinction: Afghanistan’s Last Hindus and Sikhs

Quietly Cleansing Pakistan’s Minorities, One Girl at a Time

The sounds of the waves, the sounds of the breath, the sound of Om

Dairy is a traditionally sattvic food, but the way we treat cows today can be tamasic

Beef Fat or Palm Oil in Money?!? Neither is a Nonviolent Option

Karma: Helping us live on good terms with life

Want to Improve Global Health? Adopt a Hindu Paradigm

Casting Away Colonial Views About Caste

Our Hindu Teachings, Alongside the Latest Science, Offer a Way Forward on Climate Change

Why I marched for science (and why Hindus need to lead)

Journey Through the Eight Elements of Hindu Wisdom: Ranchor Prime

Bhutanese Refugee Youth Discuss Bullying, Life Skills, More at Texas Retreat

What today’s Hindu Americans can learn from their early 20th century predecessors

How Can the Swastika Be Redeemed? Education, Education, Education.

US Religious Freedom Commission Outsources Its Credibility with Attack on Hinduism and India

The Atlantic’s Himalayan Miscalculation on Tulsi Gabbard’s Religion and Syria Policy

Here’s How the Number 108 Binds Us to the Universe

What are the four stages of Hindu life?

The Great Master: Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj

Will Trump End Pakistan’s Extortion of the American Taxpayer?

5 Ways Hindu Americans Can Become Advocates in Trump’s America

Hindu Political Clout Could Grow in 115th Congress

Promise of Human Rights Remains Unfulfilled for Hindu Minorities on Human Rights Day

House Committee sends India a message: Let Compassion International end your children’s “spiritual poverty”

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Saraswati: A Wealth of Knowledge

Living Dharma Shakti Initiative

Sita: Nature in its Feminine Form

12 Things You Need to Know About Hinduism

12 Things You Need to Know About Hinduism

Before We Grab Our Pitchforks, It’s Time to Listen

Hindu Americans, Please Vote.

10 Things You Need to Know About the Swastika

6 Things You Need to Know About the Symbolism of the Swastika

Yes, Saying Caste is Linked to Hinduism Leads to Bullying of Hindu Students

California’s Children Deserve Hinduism Be Presented Fairly

HAF Statement on International Commission on Dalit Rights Grant

We Never Erased the Word ‘Dalit’

The Myth of Erasure

HAF Presentation on History of Caste, Varna, Jati Blatantly Misrepresented

Finding My Voice Again and Becoming an Advocate

Divided We Fail: How HAF’s Involvement With the California History Curriculum is a Manifestation of Deeper Battles in the Indian Subcontinent

Classroom Subjected: Speaking To and For the Experiences of a Religious Other

On The Issues Things To Know

5 reasons that caste cannot be equated with Hinduism

On The Issues Shakti Initiative

Suhag Shukla’s BAPS Women’s Conference Keynote Speech

Shakti Initiative

Vedic Teachings About Womanhood

Shakti Initiative

The Vedic Woman: Who Was She and Why We Need Her Back

Shakti Initiative

Unearthing menstrual wisdom: Why we don’t go to the temple, and other practices

Shakti Initiative

The Sabarimala Story: Can visiting temples affect menstruating women?

Fighting Foreign Terrorism: Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh’s Inner Turmoil

Work Styles and Career Paths: Lessons Learned by a Summer Intern

Embracing My Identity: My Summer With HAF

A Plea for Sand Inspires Action Against Climate Change

Being PC in DC: My Summer with HAF

An Open Letter to Dollar Tree Regarding Om Shoe Insoles

An Open Letter to GW President Steven Knapp

The Never Ending Operation Searchlight

Why the New History Standards in Virginia Matter and Why There’s Much More to Be Done

An Open Letter to Idaho State Senator Steve Vick

Globalizing Black History Month: Recalling the professor and the Punjabi Lion

Diminishing Hindu Population in Bangladesh From the Perspective of Ethnic Cleansing: A Conscious Unawareness?

What HAF’s Victory Means to a Texan

Texas Textbook Adoption is Just One step in a Process for Hindu Americans

Beyond Doniger: A Response to Ananya Vajpeyi’s “Rise of the Hindu Right”

Seeking Ahimsa and Shanti on This Day of Mourning

California’s Pre-Historic History Standards Need to Go

The Pope on Proselytism: A Way to Work for Peace

Cuban Coffee and Teaching Teachers About Hinduism

Hindu American Advocacy: Not Something to Fear

New York Times’ Fecal Load of Hinduphobia

Heat, Humidity, and Hindu American Advocacy: My Summer in DC

My Summer of Hindu American Advocacy

Honoring the Civil Rights Act

Please Don’t Forget About Pakistan’s “Missing Girls” Too

How the New Anti-Semitism Can Provide Insight Into Hinduphobia

Taking Sides: Why the Supreme Court’s Prayer Decision Divides and Alienates

Resolution on Dalits commendable but outdated

The Invisible Roadblock to Religious Freedom: Why You Should Care About the Religious Worker Visa

Appreciating Paul Robeson, a true global citizen

The dharma of Cesar Chavez

Not caste in color: Dispelling myths in our classrooms

Nelson Mandela: A hero to Hindus

Swami Vivekananda and his legacy of social justice

In Stereotypes and Bias, Congresswoman Bachmann Not Alone

Proselytism: Conversion to intolerance

Should a particular religious affiliation disqualify someone from active military service?

Health-care reform is an economic, political and medical issue

National day of prayer and controversy

Is there widespread media bias against Christianity?

“What effect will the Ft. Hood shootings have on the American public’s perception of Islam?”

Is nuclear disarmament a religious issue?

Faith based charities and discrimination

Do weapons belong in worship?

Scotland’s ‘Mercy’ for the Lockerbie Bomber

Heaven or Hell: In the here and now

What’s wrong with being Hindu?

Chopra’s Yoga Problem

Is ‘social justice’ an ideology or a theology?

On the loss of civility in discourse

Does God Tweet?

Yoga is Hinduism’s Gift to Humanity

Christmas decorations at the White House

A mosque, a temple and a court verdict in India

Wealth is good for WaPo

A Hindu Temple Treasure Dilemma: Answers from the Ancients

Can you practice Buddhism without becoming Buddhist?

Oprah as religious leader

A Death Rejoiced

Abortion and Planned Parenthood

Should Christians condemn the inflammatory actions of Pastor Terry Jones?

Washington Post – AZ Tragedy

The plight of Dalit Christians

Religion and Homosexuality

Should there be a mosque near Ground Zero?

Why I am a Hindu by Bhagwati Charan Bhatpare

Advocacy On The Issues

The Great Yoga Debate: Aseem Shukla v Deepak Chopra

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