Michael Rubin accuses me of “foreign interference” for exposing RSS-BJP’s foreign interference in US — In August 2020, the Overseas Friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party (OFBJP) USA — the American support group for India’s ruling Hindu nationalist BJP — registered as a foreign agent in the US. They’d been in operation for nearly 30 years, since 1992, but, strangely, without any of the oversight…

Former VHP-America leader faces backlash for recent Biden appointment A month after economist Sonal Shah, 53, was appointed to the US Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council, she faces controversy as over 12,000 have signed a petition demanding her removal due to her background as a leader in an American…

Bob Lancia, Rhode Island, speaks at annual fundraising gala for VHP-America project — When HinduPACT held its annual fundraising gala on 1 May 2022, one of their main speakers was US Congressional candidate Bob Lancia, who is running as a Republican for Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District.

Indian Cabinet Minister faces backlash at California university — When Smriti Irani, a cabinet minister in India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was invited to a forum at University of California, Berkeley, she didn’t expect the sustained backlash she faced on social media, from students, and even during her appearance. Irani was hosted on 14 April 2022…

Shah’s origins in US wing of Hindu nationalist outfit are no bar to rising higher and higher with Biden administration A little over a year after The Tribune reported that Indian-Americans with “links” to India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had “so far been excluded” from…

Commemorating Ambedkar’s 131st birthday during dark days in India — Speech originally presented at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti Celebration hosted by Dr. Ambedkar Mission Society Europe (Germany) on 14 April 2022. Jai Bhim! The middle of April marks some of the most monumental events in the struggle against caste, that insidious and poisonous, invisibilized but most potent form of oppression…

Response to Secretary Blinken’s remarks on human rights in India — On the 11th of April, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference in Washington, DC with the US Secretary of Defense and their Indian counterparts. At the press conference, Blinken stated: “We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values (of human rights) and to…

Remarks at US Congressional briefing hosted by Federation of Indian American Churches of North America — Speaking at a US Congressional briefing marking the launch of the Federation of Indian American Churches of North America’s (FIACONA) 2022 report on persecution of Indian Christians by the Hindu nationalist movement, I discussed how the situation impacts US national security interests in South Asia as well as here at…

Propaganda film’s sole purpose is to incite anti-Muslim hatred and violence in India — As I bought a bottle of water from the concession stand in a Northern California theater on 19 March 2022, the staffer asked me, “What movie are you seeing?” “‘Kashmir Files’,” I said. “Oh,” he responded. “It must be good. It’s almost sold out.” Indeed it was. Not good, rather…