On Janmashtami, a progressive reading of Krishna through Bhakti, darkness, desire, mischief, Radha, and the radical intimacy ...

On April 15, 2014, the Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgment: NALSA v. Union of India. For the first time in Indian legal history, transgender people were officially recognized as the ...

There is a question I would like to ask my fellow New Yorkers—and particularly my fellow Indian Americans. Why should an ideology associated with religious majoritarianism, intolerance, politics of ...

To the Office of the Mayor of London, We are writing to express our consternation at the imminent visit to the UK by Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It was announced on ...

We are thrilled to celebrate the publication of Seeing Equally: An Anthology of Progressive Hindu Voices, edited by Hindus for Human Rights co-founder Sunita Viswanath and HfHR Advisory Board member ...

Bhagwat is the sarsanghchalak, or supreme leader, of the RSS, the century-old Hindu nationalist organization that leads the Hindu nationalist movement, which includes India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata ...

On August 29, Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is scheduled to appear at Madison Square Garden in New York City. We are asking New Yorkers, Hindu Americans, and people ...

Organizers of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s August 29 event at Madison Square Garden are advertising that elected officials and interfaith leaders are expected to attend. Some of those leaders may have ...

Across the country, immigrant communities—including many members of the Hindu American community and other South Asian diaspora communities—are facing increasing fear, uncertainty, and hostility as ...

On December 16, 1971, Bangladesh won its independence after a brutal genocide and liberation war against the West Pakistan army. Bengalis across India and Bangladesh widely consider the genocide as an ...

The NEET paper leak controversy has become one of the clearest examples of how institutional failure in India falls hardest on young people and their families. NEET, the National Eligibility cum ...

At Hindus for Human Rights, we believe in the power of unity and the importance of promoting social harmony. Our friend and ally, Swami Raghavendra Ji Maharaj, Founder of Satya Dharam Samvad (SDS), ...