Vamsee Juluri's Blog

Take a look at this alarming claim right at the beginning of an article entitled "The Religious War against American Scholars of India" recently published in Inside Higher Education:

Highly respected professors face intimidation, threats and smear campaigns for deviating from the views of the Hindu right.

A cultural and religious war is raging in which Western academics are the enemy.
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And now at the K-12 level, the struggle over how Hinduism is taught in California public schools has be...

Highly respected professors face intimidation, threats and smear campaigns for deviating from the views of the Hindu right. A cultural and religious war is raging in which Western academics are the enemy.

On April 1, 2016, though this was no prank at all, the LA Times published an article that tried to discredit several professors, scholars, students and parents (and 22,000 petition-supporters) who have been protesting a move by a part of the California Department of Education to change the way India is depicted in the History Social Science Frameworks (read my earlier post in HuffPost on this here).

The article, entitled, "Nobody Wants to Erase India from Textbooks. Here's the Real Deal," cl...

If you are a teacher, school official, or perhaps even a student or parent in California, you have probably heard about the controversy that has raged for a decade about how India and Hinduism are depicted in California's History lessons.

In these tense times when debates on religion address little else but concerns about its abuse, the speakers at the Third Dharma-Dhamma Conference in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, offered hope that from religion could still come a common sense of civilization and identity for all human beings. For three days, spiritual and political figures from around the world gathered to exchange ideas about what it means to strive for the "harmony of religions and welfare of humankind."

In the presence of Budd...

These last few months of media reporting in and on India are sounding ominously like the media climate in America in the period between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the invasion of Iraq.