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That's So Hindu — 166 episodes

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Yes, you can be Hindu and be white

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Meet the people confronting anti-Indian bigotry at Texas city council meetings | Neha Suratran & Saahas Kaul

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Parents here’s how you can model karma yoga for your kids | Brahmacharinini Shubaniji & Dr Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria

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Unmasking Digital Tribalism & How Hate Spreads Online | Joel Finkelstein, Network Contagion Research Institute

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How our spiritual connection to nature is an intimate part of yoga | Lydia Picoli

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Reclaim traditional Indian nutrition for better health | Neha Shah, Diaspora Nutrition

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Asana can be a gateway into the wider yoga tradition | Patrick Franco

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Think there are 4 paths in yoga? There are at least 16.

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Hindu at Heart: Spirituality, Service, and Medical Practice | Dr Anisha Pareddy

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If not all Hindus view the Vedas as authoritative, what do they? | Devala Rees

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How a Texan biker finds Devi in the film ‘Chiquita’ | Trivikram Gajulapalli

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How you can find hope amidst ecological grief | Dheepa Maturi

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Kama Before Moksha: Embracing Desire in Hinduism | Vijay Satnarine & Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria

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The Ethics of Evangelism: A Hindu and Christian Perspective | Fred Stella & John Morehead

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Castegate: Inside the documentary about the Cisco caste discrimination case | Ravi Rajan & Sundar Iyer

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Will AI ever get Hinduism right?? | Pawan Deshpande & Devala Rees

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What a Hinduism reporter wants you to know about journalism today | Richa Karmarkar

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Hindu parenting tips, tricks & reflections from the Hindu American Foundation team

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How to get your kids to love Hindu culture

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Let's talk about Hindu parenting, with Dr Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria

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Hindutva is not Hindu supremacy | Vikram Sampath

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Everything you wanted to know about sadhus*

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Here’s why Zoroastrianism is a dharma tradition

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For Hindus the natural world is more than sacred, its embodied Divinity itself | Prof. David Haberman

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What Hindu Americans need to know about immigration today

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How does the HAF team celebrate Navratri?

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Setting the record straight about the craziest things people say about HAF

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How was Indian society historically organized? Hint: It wasn't caste.

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How many Hindu Dharma Traditions are there?

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A dharmic investing take on Bitcoin | Easan Katir

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Hindu at Heart: Naren K. Schreiner, Purohit

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What’s going on in Bangladesh today? | Ahnaf Kalam

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International Yoga Day Special: Swami Sarvapriyanda on the four paths of yoga

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All about the 1985 Air India bombing, one of the biggest intelligence failures of the 20th century | Sanjay Lazar

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Hindu at Heart: Vindhya Adapa - Attorney & Musician

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All About the Hindu Calendar(s)

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Hindu at Heart: Psychologist & HAF Board Member Dr. Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria

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Pakistan’s support for terrorism won’t stop until they are held accountable | Michael Rubin

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It’s not about caste, most Hindus aren’t vegetarian, and other misconceptions about the politics of dietary choices

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US harbors Khalistani terrorists and needs to do something about it | Michael Rubin

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The Asian American community needs to destroy the myth of the model minority. We need to fight. | TX State Rep. Gene Wu

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Why the way we talk about Hinduism needs to change

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Think you know all about Ambedkar? Think again. | Pankaj Jain

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How USAID gave millions to groups linked to terrorism in the Middle East and South Asia | Sam Westrop

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How the US-India relationship will fare under Trump 2.0 | Akhil Ramesh

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What the modern world can learn from the Dharmic capitalism of South India’s great kingdoms | Sriram Balasubramanian

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When will Kashmiri Pandits be able to really return home? | Vijay Sazawal

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Hindu At Heart: Practicing restorative justice in New York City public schools | Hemanth Venkataraman

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Equating Hindutva with any kind of Hindu supremacy is just nonsense | Vikram Sampath

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A conversation about Hindu parenting with psychologist Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria and Suhag Shukla

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How Akṣarā is using the visual arts and design to pass on Indian culture | Jayanthi Moorthy

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Hindutva doesn’t start with Savarkar. It starts with the Bengali Renaissance. | Hindol Sengupta

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How the history of Hindutva and the RSS has been so misunderstood in the West | Walter Andersen

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All about the Third Nature: An expansive millennia-old Hindu framework for discussing gender and sexuality

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Educating Hindus about our heritage and the science behind our temples, one video and workshop at a time | Prem KV

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Raja Choudhury tells us all about Swami Vivekananda, America's First Guru

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Hindu at Heart: Sneha Rao, from aviation engineer to Hinduism scholar

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If you want to develop a deeper Hindu Lifestyle, Shawn Binda has something to say about that

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What does the West get wrong about yoga? Far more than it gets right, say Shyam Ranganathan and Vijay Satnarine.

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What's the connection between NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Pakistan's PTI party? MEF Action's Benjamin Baird explains.

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All about Anandi Joshee, the amazing 19th century Indian woman who become a doctor in the US

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Hindu At Heart: Aditi Banerjee

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Why is there zero representation of Indo-Caribbean Hindus in New York's textbooks?

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Australian filmmaker Ravi Chand's latest film, Namaste Yoga, may leave you in tears

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All about the rising antisemitism on college campuses in the past three months | Carly Gammill, StandWithUs

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HAF Shop Talk: All about Ram Janmabhoomi

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How can Hindu parents get their kids to love Indian culture? Prof. Pankaj Jain has some tips.

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Why Hindus should be paying attention to Hamas' funding sources. Sam Westrop explains.

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Wrongly accused of caste discrimination by California, Sundar Iyer tells us what really happened

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Sanjay Lazar, orphaned by the 1985 Air India bombing, tells his story - Part 2

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Sanjay Lazar, orphaned by the 1985 Air India bombing, tells his story - Part 1

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Hindu by Heart: Coerced into Islam, Seeking Freedom - Part 2

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Hindu by Heart: Coerced into Islam, Seeking Freedom - Part 1

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How do Hindu Americans celebrate Navaratri?

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What is Critical Caste Theory and why it's a "dubious discourse" | Akshar from The Emissary

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For Hindus the natural world is more than sacred, its embodied Divinity itself | Prof. David Haberman

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There are definite parallels between growing antisemitism and rising Hinduphobia | Sarah Stern

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On bringing the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda to the cinema | Nico Oscoff

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Here's why it's adharmic to lose money | Easan Katir

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How everything isn't as it seemed in the BAPS and Cisco caste discrimination allegations | Suhag Shukla & Samir Kalra

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The US-India relationship has been a success in so many ways | David Santoro, The Pacific Forum

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Preserving dharma by restoring one ancient temple at a time | Behind Every Temple

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We should be very wary of people who tell us there is only one way to be Hindu | Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan

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How Hinduphobia has been constructed and unleashed from the West | Prof Lavanya Vemsani

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The connections between advaita vedanta and ecology are, well, deep | Prof. Jeffery D Long

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TEASER: All about All About Hinduism

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How a former Pentecostal Christian preacher and missionary in India first lost his religion and then embraced Hinduism | Andrew Jasko

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If American diplomacy is to succeed, we need to rethink our posture towards India | Dr Michael Rubin

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'Unshackled' demystifies immigration & gives you more control over your future in the US | Soundarya Balasubramani & Sameer Khedakar

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Most people in the West have no idea how dangerous the Khalistanis actually are | Puneet Sahani

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From one hour a week to your entire week, there’s room for everyone to participate in politics | Sen. Niraj Antani (R-OH)

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The US-India relationship could take off like a rocket ship | Akhil Ramesh

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How an immigrant student with $250 in her pocket & 2 suitcases went on to be the first Hindu woman in Michigan’s legislature | Rep. Padma Kuppa

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How herons can help us make better financial decisions | Easan Katir

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There’s no such thing as Indian food. The cuisine is far more complex than that. | Chef Keith Sarasin

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Feeding 100,000 people on Thanksgiving, and helping people discover their personal story | Dr Varun Gandhi

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HAF Executive Director Suhag Shukla's full interview with NPR on caste discrimination in the US

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After 30 years the Kashmiri Pandit story is finally been told on film | Rajiv Pandit and Sidhi Raina react to ‘The Kashmir Files’

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All about Marma Therapy | Vira Tansey

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Banned on Twitter for spreading the truth about Hindu persecution in Bangladesh | Stories of Bengali Hindus

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Why do colonial-era errors about Hinduism persist, even among anti-colonial activists and academia? | Indu Viswanathan & Suhag Shukla

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Where is the Khalistan movement today? | Terry Milewski

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Until the horrors of Kashmir’s ethnic cleansing are owned up to, communal harmony won't return: Part Two | Vijay Sazawal

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Until the horrors of Kashmir’s ethnic cleansing are owned up to, communal harmony won't return: Part One | Vijay Sazawal

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How yoga helped me survive two days lost in a frigid wilderness | Jolly Yogi Bose

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After one week of violence, 335 Hindu temples vandalized across 33 districts in Bangladesh, with 7 Hindu priests killed

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75 years after being published Autobiography of a Yogi still has something to teach us | Phil Goldberg

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HAF Shop Talk: Suhag Shukla and Samir Kalra discuss Dismantling Global Hindutva + investigating Univ. of Pennsylvania violations of Hindu students’ rights

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Tibetan people have been enduring unspeakable suffering under the illegal occupation by China | Tashi Dhondup

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The humanities keeps talking about Hindus without including our voices | Dr. Indu Viswanathan

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All about the 8 year-old Hindu boy charged with blasphemy in Pakistan + recent attacks on Hindu temples

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Why are Indian South Africans being attacked? Part 2 | Yashika Singh

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Why are Indian South Africans being attacked? Part 1 | Lux Maharaj

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Religious Freedom in Bangladesh 1971-2021: From Genocide to Today

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Through chanting mantra we awaken our heart to connect to the Divine heart | Jai Uttal

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To really focus, we have to train our minds and then practice what we’ve learned | Dandapani

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Pakistani terrorism doesn’t just kill Indians, it kills Americans too | Dr Michael Rubin

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The study of caste has given a false foundation to Indian culture | Dr Prakash Shah

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Homophobia in India is a homophobia of ignorance | Ankit Bhuptani

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If you don’t have Hindu representation on your college campus, create it for yourself | Shreya Mahasenan

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No country is perfect: We’re working towards a more perfect union in the US and so is India | State Rep. Padma Kuppa (D-MI)

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Hinduphobia is real and here’s how to recognize it | Parth Parihar

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Hindus have a responsibility to modernize chanting for their own families | Shivali Bhammer

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Yoga is about far more than being an advanced gymnast | Riki Warren

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Ashok Karmakar recounts the Bengali Hindu Genocide

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Prof. Chris Fici successfully balances being a scholar and bhakti yogi

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Aditi Banerjee talks about her book The Curse of Gandhari

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Bhuwan Pyakurel: The former refugee from Bhutan who's now a city councilor in Ohio

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Mandar Apte: film director, meditation teacher and peace activist

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Dr Pankaj Jain on the history of the Hindu-Jain diaspora in America

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Ravinol Chambers, the Hindu monk who became a filmmaker

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Rukhsana Hasib tells us what she witnessed in 1971 during the Bangladesh genocide

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Artist Manjari Sharma explores how to wear a sari

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What Hindu Americans can expect from the Biden-Harris administration

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Film producer and animal welfare advocate Nirva Patel makes a compelling dharmic case for eating a vegan diet

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Professor Jeffery D Long on the influence of Hindu thought on Star Wars + misunderstandings about Hinduism

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85 incidents of murder, gang rape, temple destruction in 66 days: Richard Benkin on the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh

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It's through our sacred stories that Hinduism has and will continue to survive: Ami and Amit Majmudar

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Melanie Chandra says the work of acting is about becoming messy

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In which Abhinav Pandya goes deep into the geopolitics of Kashmir conflict, and more.

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Ram Sahadeo and Vishnu Bisram talk about the challenges Hindus are facing in Guyana

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Easan Katir tells us how to align our beliefs with our stock portfolios through Dharmic Investing

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Kanchan Koya explains how one secret of good health is Spice Space Baby

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Mango & Marigold Press and Modi Toys are helping Hindu parents pass on traditions to their kids

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Sudarshan Ramabadran explains the importance of the soft power India holds in yoga and Ayurveda

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Brahmachari Sharan says Hindus need to focus on understanding our history, so we can become part of the world's present

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Middle East Forum's Sam Westrop and Clifford Smith in conversation with Samir Kalra

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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee connects the dots between terrorism, Pakistan, and the Kashmir conflict

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Guru Prakash and Suhag Shukla talk about what we can do to end caste discrimination

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Rukmini Walker feels the pandemic pause is bringing us closer to one another

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Phil Goldberg says Hinduism has been influencing America far longer than many people think

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Coping with COVID: A Dialogue with Deepak Chopra™

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Coping with COVID: Building immunity with Ayurveda and integrative medicine, featuring Dr. Akil Palanisamy

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Coping with COVID, Spiritual wellbeing in the midst of a global crisis

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Coping with COVID: Manage Stress and Anxiety with Yoga and Meditation, featuring Eddie Stern

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Coping with COVID: Education & Awareness, featuring former US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy

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Shikha Uberoi Bajpai says Hinduism has given her a competitive edge both on the tennis court and off

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Swamis Speak: Swami Ishwarananda

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Swamis Speak: Swamini Svatmavidyananda

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Fred Stella goes to Guyana, hears that Hindu gods are demons

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Gopal Patel thinks stopping the climate crisis is the Hindu thing to do

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Sham Sharma shows how mainstream media is getting India wrong

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Dena Merriam digs into her past lives and the future of Hinduism

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KASHMIR EXODUS DAY SPECIAL - Sunanda Vashisht

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Rajiv Satyal is the Man in the Middle of US politics, and comedy

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Eddie Stern isn't a yoga guru