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What's the connection between NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Pakistan's PTI party? MEF Action's Benjamin Baird explains.

That's So Hindu - April 04, 2024 11:00 - 46 minutes
In this episode Samir Kalra speaks with Benjamin Baird from MEF Action on his new reporting detailing the financial ties between NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the Islamist political party PTI, founded by former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, including the funding Mayor Adams has received from PTI...
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All about Anandi Joshee, the amazing 19th century Indian woman who become a doctor in the US

That's So Hindu - March 21, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes
In this episode Suhag Shukla interviews author Nandini Patwardhan about her book Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and her American Champions, a biography of Anandi-bai Joshee, who in 1883 as an 18-year old left Calcutta for the United States to study medicine, and who went on to becom...
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Hindu At Heart: Aditi Banerjee

That's So Hindu - March 14, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, the first of our Hindu At Heart series of interviews, Indu Viswanathan speaks with author Aditi Banerjee on a wide range of issues: Hindu sacred geography in Ayodhya and Varanasi, growing up Hindu in America, and a variety of other topics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
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Why is there zero representation of Indo-Caribbean Hindus in New York's textbooks?

That's So Hindu - February 23, 2024 19:00 - 58 minutes
For this episode Mat McDermott has a conversation with Sandy Rao, Dr Vishnu Bisram, and Dr Indrani Ramprasad about the Indo-Carribean Hindu community, the lack of representation of the Caribbean Hindu diaspora in New York City school textbooks, the current situation for Hindus in Guyana and Trin...
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Australian filmmaker Ravi Chand's latest film, Namaste Yoga, may leave you in tears

That's So Hindu - February 08, 2024 12:00 - 29 minutes
In this episode, Sheetal Shah speaks with Australian filmmaker Ravi Chand about his latest project, Namaste Yoga. Learn more about Ravi here: Warrior Tribe Films Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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All about the rising antisemitism on college campuses in the past three months | Carly Gammill, StandWithUs

That's So Hindu - February 01, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour
In this episode Samir Kalra speaks with Carly Gammill, Director of the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism, about the marked increase in antisemitism expressed on US college campuses following the Hamas attack on Israeli of October 7th, and what can be done about this situation.  Host...
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HAF Shop Talk: All about Ram Janmabhoomi

That's So Hindu - January 19, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutes
In this HAF Shop Talk episode, Samir Kalra, Mat McDermott, and Dr Vijay Satnarine have a wide ranging informal discussion of the history and archeology of the Ram Janmabhoomi site, media's curious unwillingness to discuss the full history of the situation going back centuries, the capture of the ...
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How can Hindu parents get their kids to love Indian culture? Prof. Pankaj Jain has some tips.

That's So Hindu - January 11, 2024 12:00 - 30 minutes
In this episode Mat McDermott speaks with Professor Pankaj Jain. Pankaj has been on the show before speaking about his area of professional expertise, Hinduism, Jainism and ecology. But today we’re speaking about something he’s become particularly passionate about: parenting. Specifically how Hin...
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Why Hindus should be paying attention to Hamas' funding sources. Sam Westrop explains.

That's So Hindu - December 21, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes
In this episode of That's So Hindu, our 100th, Samir Kalra speaks with Middle East Forum's Sam Westrop about their new report detailing how Hamas raises money through charitable organizations in the West, and the connections with funding for Islamist groups in India and South Asia more broadly. ...
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Wrongly accused of caste discrimination by California, Sundar Iyer tells us what really happened

That's So Hindu - December 08, 2023 12:00 - 52 minutes
In this must-listen episode, Samir Kalra speaks with Sundar Iyer, one of the Cisco employees wrongly accused of caste discrimination by California's Civil Rights Department. Sundar gives us the background of what really happened on his team that led to the lawsuit, what the CRD chose to overlook ...
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Sanjay Lazar, orphaned by the 1985 Air India bombing, tells his story - Part 2

That's So Hindu - November 16, 2023 14:38 - 50 minutes
In the second part of this two-part episode, Suhag Shukla speaks with Sanjay Lazar who lost his entire family in the Air India Flight 182 bombing and was literally orphaned while still a child. This is the story of his life beyond the tragedy of the worst terrorist act in aviation history until ...
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Sanjay Lazar, orphaned by the 1985 Air India bombing, tells his story - Part 1

That's So Hindu - November 16, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes
In the first part of this two-part episode, Suhag Shukla speaks with Sanjay Lazar who lost his entire family in the Air India Flight 182 bombing and was literally orphaned while still a child. This is the story of his life beyond the tragedy of the worst terrorist act in aviation history until 9...
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Hindu by Heart: Coerced into Islam, Seeking Freedom - Part 2

That's So Hindu - November 02, 2023 11:05 - 40 minutes
For this special two-part episode we’ve got something a little bit different. This time, Dr indu Viswanathan, who’s been a guest on the show twice, is on the other side of the interviewing equation. She’s speaking with a young Hindu man, who has a unique and important story to tell. Keshav was r...
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Hindu by Heart: Coerced into Islam, Seeking Freedom - Part 1

That's So Hindu - November 02, 2023 11:00 - 52 minutes
For this special two-part episode we’ve got something a little bit different. This time, Dr indu Viswanathan, who’s been a guest on the show twice, is on the other side of the interviewing equation. She’s speaking with a young Hindu man, who has a unique and important story to tell. Keshav was r...
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How do Hindu Americans celebrate Navaratri?

That's So Hindu - October 19, 2023 14:34 - 32 minutes
For this episode we have something a bit different for you. It’s a special episode for Navaratri. We've interviewed several members of our extended HAF team as well as members of the Hindu American community about how they celebrate Navaratri today, what they remember about the holiday growing u...
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What is Critical Caste Theory and why it's a "dubious discourse" | Akshar from The Emissary

That's So Hindu - September 28, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes
In this episode we speak with Akshar from The Emissary about an article he published earlier this year about Critical Caste Theory, as well as the activists who view Hinduism, Hindu culture, and India’s history and contemporary society through this very narrow lens. Read the article that we're...
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84 Vaishnavas, Varta #8, Gadadhardas

Find the Beloved - September 08, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutes
This is a literary journey into the heart of devotion. The easiest and fastest way to any goal is through spending time with someone who has reached that goal themselves. The saints of bhakti depicted in the "84 Vaishnavas" text are mentors and guides for spiritual seekers. Spending time with th...
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For Hindus the natural world is more than sacred, its embodied Divinity itself | Prof. David Haberman

That's So Hindu - September 07, 2023 14:00 - 33 minutes
In this episode we speak with Prof. David Haberman from Indiana University about his extensive work documenting how Hindus bring trees, stones, and mountains into their religious worship. Buy the books we discuss: People Trees, Loving Stones Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
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84 Vaishnavas, Varta #6, Seth Purushottamdas

Find the Beloved - September 07, 2023 06:00 - 41 minutes
This is a literary journey into the heart of devotion. The easiest and fastest way to any goal is through spending time with someone who has reached that goal themselves. The saints of bhakti depicted in the "84 Vaishnavas" text are mentors and guides for spiritual seekers. Spending time with th...
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84 Vaishnavas, Varta #5, Rajo Kshatrani

Find the Beloved - September 06, 2023 06:00 - 11 minutes
This is a literary journey into the heart of devotion. The easiest and fastest way to any goal is through spending time with someone who has reached that goal themselves. The saints of bhakti depicted in the "84 Vaishnavas" text are mentors and guides for spiritual seekers. Spending time with th...
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84 Vaishnavas, Varta #4, Padmanabhdas

Find the Beloved - September 05, 2023 02:00 - 50 minutes
This is a literary journey into the heart of devotion. The easiest and fastest way to any goal is through spending time with someone who has reached that goal themselves. The saints of bhakti depicted in the "84 Vaishnavas" text are mentors and guides for spiritual seekers. Spending time with th...
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84 Vaishnavas, Varta #3, Damodardas Sambhalvare

Find the Beloved - September 03, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutes
This is a literary journey into the heart of devotion. The easiest and fastest way to any goal is through spending time with someone who has reached that goal themselves. The saints of bhakti depicted in the "84 Vaishnavas" text are mentors and guides for spiritual seekers. Spending time with th...
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84 Vaishnavas, Varta #2, Krishnadas Meghan

Find the Beloved - September 03, 2023 03:00 - 23 minutes
This is a literary journey into the heart of devotion. The easiest and fastest way to any goal is through spending time with someone who has reached that goal themselves. The saints of bhakti depicted in the "84 Vaishnavas" text are mentors and guides for spiritual seekers. Spending time with th...
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84 Vaishnavas, Varta #1, Damodardas Harsani

Find the Beloved - September 01, 2023 23:00 - 31 minutes
This is a literary journey into the heart of devotion. The easiest and fastest way to any goal is through spending time with someone who has reached that goal themselves. The saints of bhakti depicted in the "84 Vaishnavas" text are mentors and guides for spiritual seekers. Spending time with th...
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There are definite parallels between growing antisemitism and rising Hinduphobia | Sarah Stern

That's So Hindu - August 17, 2023 14:00 - 57 minutes
In this episode Samir Kalra speaks with Sarah Stern, the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a think tank and policy institute based in Washington DC. They speak about the parallels between growing antisemitism and rising Hinduphobia, the US-Israel relationship, and effo...
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On bringing the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda to the cinema | Nico Oscoff

That's So Hindu - August 10, 2023 14:00 - 57 minutes
In this episode we're speaking with film director Nico Oscoff on his latest project 1893: Year of the Yogi, a documentary currently planned to be released in 2024. Learn more: https://www.instagram.com/1893yoty/ Donate to the film here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
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Here's why it's adharmic to lose money | Easan Katir

That's So Hindu - July 27, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutes
In this episode we're again speaking with HAF's own Easan Katir on the topic of dharmic investing, with a focus this time on why it's adharmic to lose money. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How everything isn't as it seemed in the BAPS and Cisco caste discrimination allegations | Suhag Shukla & Samir Kalra

That's So Hindu - July 26, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour
In this special episode Mat McDermott moderates a discussion between HAF Co-Founder Suhag Shukla and Managing Director Samir Kalra about the latest revelations in the case of alleged caste discrimination at the BAPS temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey, and how the connect to the similar allegatio...
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The US-India relationship has been a success in so many ways | David Santoro, The Pacific Forum

That's So Hindu - July 13, 2023 19:00 - 35 minutes
In this episode Samir Kalra speaks with David Santoro, President and CEO of the Pacific Forum, a non-profit foreign policy research institute based in Hawaii. They discuss the state of the India-US relationship, the positive changes he's seen in India in recent years, and much more. Learn more at...
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Hindu Heritage Hub - July 06, 2023 07:00 - 6 minutes
This riveting podcast delves into the depths of topics that matter to Hindus across the globe, including the United States. Join me as I uncover the truth on Hinduphobia, champion Hindu Human Rights, unravel Indology, dissect Politics, and unveil the rich History of Hindus and India. In concise...
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