ARTICLES

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

A phrase parroted by the millions of self-designated woke is one I, very much so, am bemused by. A parroting that I myself am a veteran of. Often echoed by those who see no purpose for introspection into the terms they are stating, as they are convinced this is but a...

In Sanskrit, the word “Kovida” refers to one who is intelligent, wise and philosophically inclined. To appropriately respond to COVID, we each have to become Kovida. How do modern Hindus become intelligent? Is it by going back to University? It is to realise our true...