At the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Vivekananda presented a paternal, all-inclusive vision of India that made America seem young and provincial. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos by ...

Last week in a Manhattan vaudeville theatre a man was speaking. “Nietzsche’s,” he said, “is the present philosophy of the Occidental world, with its gospel of self-assertion and self-expression, ...

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...

Assimilation is not about abandoning one’s roots — it’s about understanding the values of the society we choose to live in ...

(The Conversation) — The government’s use of the Hindi word for ‘India’ revives debates over whether Hindi should be the national language – and reopens some old wounds. (The Conversation) — When ...

Hardly more than a generation ago, U. S. churches still had a stirring sense of the U. S. frontier. Much of their consecrated vigor derived from their missionary work among U. S. Indians. Today the ...

Indian adults nearly universally say it is important for women to have the same rights as men, including eight-in-ten who say this is very important. At the same time, however, there are circumstances ...

Supreme Court ruling in the case of an officer dismissed for refusing to enter a regimental place of worship, affirms that ...