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Indu Viswanathan Profile picture
Indu Viswanathan
@indumathi37
Dharma | Belonging | Teacher Education | Community Partnership | Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu 🪔
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Jun 28, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Imagine if we measured distances using zucchinis.

Stay with me here. There is a point!

So I calculate the distance between my house and my neighbor's house using a zucchini from my garden. I announce that my house is 37 zucchinis from my neighbor's house. My neighbor decides to check this. She uses a zucchini from her garden. She comes up with a 25-zucchini distance. "Indu's lying!" she cries out at the town meeting. "She is exaggerating the distance between our homes! She is untrustworthy! Don't believe her."
Jun 28, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Set aside the “South Asian insider experts” - they’re predictable. I continue to be amazed by the non-“South Asians” who are demonstrably more nuanced in their geopolitical analysis in nearly every region of the world and are apparently mind-numb when it comes to India & Hindus. When a journalist openly denies the Bengali Hindu genocide - that was recognized two years earlier by the U.S. Congress as a Hindu genocide - how do the people who are reading that article continue to believe the journalist? How does the journalist stay employed? @NBCNews ?



May 19, 2023 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
One of main arguments made by advocates in favor anti-caste discrimination laws and policies *in the United States* is that "upper caste Hindus import their casteist behaviors wherever they immigrate" and that "this is spreading like a disease."

Let's unpack this past rhetoric. In Pew's 2021 survey study on caste in India, < 25% of respondents reported seeing evidence of widespread discrimination against SC (20%), ST (19%) or OBC (16%). 13% of those who identify with OBC reported "a lot of discrimination against Backward Classes."
Apr 23, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I always find it fascinating and revealing to receive this kind of response. No, WhatsApp University is obviously not a legitimate degree granting institution.

However. Image There’s a long, sordid history of western universities studying and “learning and teaching” about non-western civilizations as objects thru a warped colonial lens, incl. the ways they translate and conceptualize language. This is well recognized. Except when it comes to Hinduism.
Apr 22, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Ass. Prof Truschke just uploaded this. I have to read it, still, but here are some initial observations from the abstract. (Note: It's probably not a good idea for everyone to download it because that will only feed her narcissism.)

academia.edu/95354689/Hindu… The abstract Image