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One year ago today, I felt an overwhelming, undeniable urge to advocate for Hindu causes. I believe the Hinduphobic, anti-India media onslaught that started on 8/5/19, spurred me, a Kashmiri Hindu American, out of my slumber. I had lived in America my whole life, but never had
I used my voice to speak up for basic fairness in media representation of Hinduism & India, the ancient birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, & Sikhism. We Americans enjoy the benefits of Hindu spirituality every day (yoga, Ayurveda, meditation, mind-body healing, etc), yet
we don't realize that a valiant, hard-scrabble, colonized population had to fight tooth & nail for millennia to preserve these ancient techniques & philosophies for us to use today. The very people who get a bad rap in the Western media, the Indian Hindus who are "too loud", "too
Hindu", "too passionate", are the sole reason #Hinduism has survived until 2020. Let's show them the gratitude they deserve & let's all work for fairer, more equitable representation of Hindus & Hinduism in journalism & media. It's the right & just thing to do. @NPRpubliceditor
.@nytimes @NPR @washingtonpost @NPRpubliceditor @TheAtlantic @CNN
#5thAugust #Kashmir #India #RamMandir
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Many #Hindus have been asking why we don't speak up for our rights or assert ourselves. As a psychiatrist, I will say that the training starts right from childhood, in the family. Encourage your children to question authority (including you). Don't dominate and ...
control your children's lives. Let them be vocal & fully who they are in the family unit. This sets the stage for them to be vocal & assertive later on in the real world. Also, stop giving unconditional respect to elders who haven't demonstrated that they deserve it. Just because
someone is older than you, doesn't mean they know any better. Encourage and foster independent thinking IN THE HOME.

#India #Assertiveness #AssertivenessTraining
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.@nytimes @washingtonpost #India

In case you haven’t figured this out already, the New York Times & the Washington Post are NOT reporting the full story of what is happening in India. They are trying very hard to paint a skewed, one-sided picture of the Indian story that
essentially leaves you with the impression: Hindu Bad, Muslim Good. Modi Bad, BJP Bad, Everyone else Good.

This is childish caricature, brazen propaganda, and totally removed from the nuanced truth.

So if you come at me or anyone else armed with your “knowledge” from the
NYTimes, just know that I will laugh at you, not take you seriously, and have a 30 sec internal debate with myself on whether to block you (and then probably block you).

If you are actually interested in learning the full story of what is going on
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1. To all the bigoted Hinduphobes who constantly harp on & on & on & on & on & on & on about the "caste system" when talking about Hinduism - we see you & we're gonna start calling your SORRY ASSES OUT. Hinduism is the world's oldest religion and is a deeply profound..
2. spiritual, scientific, & all-encompassing living philosophy. It has survived for millennia & it’s beautiful teachings are flourishing organically in America for a reason: they work. Hinduism has given the world yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, the concepts of karma, dharma,...
3. non-duality, consciousness, chakras, & so much more. To reduce it to the “caste system” and to make “caste” its defining feature is offensive, grossly Hinduphobic, & belies a deep & profound ignorance of Hinduism’s all encompassing knowledge system. If the “caste system” is...
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