Academic Writing
- “Creative Hindu Explorations Towards Interfaith Bridge-Building.” In Beyond Dialogue: New Paradigms in Interfaith Discourse, edited by Daniel Ross Goodman, Elaine Jean Lai, and Anthony A. Lee (SUNY Press, September 2026)
Articles
- Religion and Resistance: An Educational Resource, International Centre for Ethnic Studies (October 23, 2025)
- Bridging South Asian American Religious Divides through Poetry and Art, Interfaith America (April 3, 2025)
- Badsha Peer, King of Africa: Seeking India’s Deccan in South African Tales of Indenture, Maidaanam (June 17, 2024), cross-published in Muslim Views
- Saffron In The Rainbow Nation: Hindu Nationalism’s Presence In South Africa, Religion Unplugged (June 10, 2024), cross-published in Scroll
- India to South Africa: How two activists defied their family legacies to challenge injustice, Scroll (May 19, 2024), cross-published in Muslim Views
- How Easter Became A Holy Time For Some South African Hindus And Muslims, Religion Unplugged (March 26, 2024), cross-published in Scroll
- A ‘pilgrimage of love’ seeks Indian Hindu leaders willing to condemn Hindu nationalism, Religion News Service (April 24, 2023), cross-published in Scroll
- Prema Yatra: Pilgrimage of Love – Fact-Finding Mission in India, Hindus for Human Rights (April 24, 2023), translated into Hindi and Kannada
- With Tara Roy, Hindu nationalist group, known for intolerant rhetoric, hosted a fundraiser in Frisco, Dallas Morning News (December 13, 2022)
- With Pranay Somayajula, Arguments That Caste Protections ‘Unjustly Target’ South Asians Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny, Religion Dispatches (March 18, 2022)
- What Shiva Meant to a Sex Worker, to Savitribai Phule, and to Partition’s Refugees, The Wire (March 1, 2022)
- Reflections on the Role of Religion in Society, Aspen Institute (January 27, 2022)
- With Raju Rajagopal, Disinformation and Democratic Backsliding: India’s Facebook Problem, South Asian Voices (January 11, 2022), reposted on 9DASHLINE (January 28, 2022)
- 100 Years Later, American Hindu Leaders Are Making the Same Mistakes, The Wire (September 6, 2021)
- Reflections of a Hindu at the ‘Treaty People Gathering’ to Stop Oil Pipeline in Northern Minnesota, American Kahani (July 26, 2021)
- With Bidisha Biswas, New Survey Shows Many Indians Preach Respect but Don’t Practice It, Foreign Policy (July 14, 2021)
- Why India’s Farmer Protests Matter, Aspen Institute (February 10, 2021)
- #AHoliAgainstHindutva is Not Anti-Hindu, Kajal Magazine (March 11, 2020)
- After Ayodhya verdict, does India have room for dargahs and shared sacred spaces any more? Scroll (January 24, 2020)
- Through the Jaali: Women’s Access and Worship at Dargahs, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting (October 31, 2019)
- With Hamza Shad, At the Sangam: Why is Kumbh Mela’s bathing ritual called ‘Shahi snan’ and not ‘rajyogi snan’? Scroll (February 10, 2019)
- An Uneasy Middle Path: Muslims in the World of Hindustani Music, The Compass (December 7, 2018)
- When the man who wrote Pakistan’s national anthem saw the divine in Hindu god Krishna, Dawn (August 30, 2017) (re-posted on Scroll)
- Imagining White Gods: Colourism in Hindu Calendar Art and Amar Chitra Kathas, Outlook India (December 13, 2016)
Press Mentions and Interviews
- Aparna Gopalan, The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook, Jewish Currents (June 28, 2023)
- Jody Hassett Sanchez, Hindus For Human Rights Director Questions Modi’s State Visit To The United States, Religion Unplugged (June 23, 2023)
- Sushmita Pathak, Gandhi’s expulsion: Bad for Indian democracy, good for opposition? Christian Science Monitor (March 30, 2023)
- Deepa Bharath, Seattle may become the first U.S. city to outlaw caste, Associated Press (February 21, 2023)
- Tom Blackwell, Activists push for official recognition of Hinduphobia but some Hindus call it a political ploy, National Post (January 27, 2023)
- innoFaith, Meet an innoFaither: Nikhil Mandalaparthy
(December 16, 2022) - Usaid Siddiqui, Concerns as US DHS hires leader of Hindu nationalist-linked group, Al Jazeera (November 3, 2022)
- Rowaida Abdelaziz, Far-Right Hindu Nationalism is Gaining Ground in the U.S., HuffPost (October 22, 2022)
- Vishva Samani, Hindus, hate and hashtags, BBC News World Service (August 21, 2022)
- Sakshi Venkatraman, South Asian Americans face a complicated relationship with the swastika, NBC News (March 25, 2022)
- Michael Reid Trice, Hindus for Human Rights and Creative Responses to Derision (also on YouTube), Religica Podcast (February 23, 2022)
- Ananta Agarwal, India has an eroding image of tolerance in the West. A recent cricket loss proves why. NBC News (November 27, 2021)
- Ashwin Rodrigues, An Indian Comic Spent Over a Month in Jail for Jokes He Didn’t Tell, VICE (February 5, 2021)
- Why is India’s history and culture so misunderstood? Tea Kadai Benchu Podcast (February 5, 2021)
- Abigail Higgins, Young Adults Reimagining Religion, Living Facts (December 17, 2020)
- Chris Fuchs, Behind the ‘Model Minority’ Myth: Why the ‘Studious Asian’ Stereotype Hurts, NBC Asian America (August 22, 2017)
- Sowmiya Ashok, How South Asian Americans Are Asserting Their Political Voice This Election, The Caravan (October 28, 2016)
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