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Lined Up And Shot Dead On A Hot Summer Night
The Bone-Chilling Qila-Baddowal Massacre Of Hindus Disclaimer: The following content describes violence, murder & bloodshed. Do not continue further if you are triggered by violence or death. I, as a young South Asian, wish to delve deeper into remembering the...
The Hidden Genocide of Bangladeshi Hindus – Post-Demolition Of Babri Masjid
Photo Credit: Ayon Rehal Why is there silence around the attacks against Hindus that had taken place after the demolition of the Babri Masjid? In October 1993, Bangladeshi writer and atheist-feminist Taslima Nasreen was threatened. An Islamic fundamentalist group, the...
The Islamophobia No One Talks About: Persecution of Ahmadis
In an era where human rights violations are being called out, the bigotry and persecution faced by the Ahmadi Muslim community are hardly ever discussed when the discussion of Islamophobia comes up. Now is the time to have that discussion. Who are the Ahmadis and why...
Endangering Secularism: Hindu Temples for Sale
Hindu temples in India are facing a big challenge on multiple fronts. They need to oppose constant loot of their properties, take back control of temple operations, and educate Hindu devotees about the ongoing cultural assassination of the Hindu community. The big...
Dalits in South Asia: What’s next for them?
Discussions about minority groups in the global context often hover around the condition of Dalits in South Asia. While it is accepted that Hindu society in India has failed to integrate the Dalits after independence in 1947, the complete story of this marginalized...
Minorities — Victims of Blasphemy in Pakistan
For the past 30 years, blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad has been punishable by death in Pakistan. There have been 1,549 known cases of the most serious charges —either blasphemy against Muhammad or desecration of the Koran — according to Pakistan’s Centre for...
Demystifying Caste
A debated topic in Hinduism and South Asian culture is the ‘caste’ system. Even today, there are many people who fallaciously believe that Hinduism has an unfair, dogmatic system of hierarchy. This is far from the truth, as will be explained below (feel free to skip...
Reclaiming South Asians’ Mathematic Contributions
The Importance of Reclaiming the Indigenous Hindu Knowledge of South Asia. The great Italian mathematician Fibonacci wrote in the Liber Abaci (The Book of Calculation) that “In this book, I have established the entire doctrine of numbers according to the method of...
Exquisite South Asian Temple Architecture
As part of our South Asian architecture series, we have collected pictures of some amazing architectural works of temples in South Asia. We would like to give credit to twitter handle @LostTemple7 and @Raghuna60111601 for these nice photographs. We encourage original...
Response to Inappropriately Equating Black Lives Matter with Kashmir
Contributors to the South Asian Heritage Forum have been wary of all sorts of faux comparisons being made by some members in our South Asian community, comparisons that distract from the urgent issues of systemic racism and policy brutality against African Americans....
South Asian activists must resist the urge to #AllLivesMatter on a #BlackLivesMatter movement
Calling out our own community when such dilution happens is important and urgent. The recent murder of George Floyd, in a spate of a long line of similar murders of unarmed black men, women, children, and transfolk, at the hands of a white police officer has shaken...
Census Discrimination: The minority in Indonesia
Indonesia is often cited as a country that has not forgotten about its Hindu and Dharmic history, but in the process of making such a sweeping statement, the discrimination that is meted out to Hindus by the Indonesian State is ignored. Indonesia discriminates against...
