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That's So Hindu — 171 episodes

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Remembering Air India Flight 182: An Interview with Ranjna Sharma

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Food and Digestion in Ayurveda | Dr Reetu Rudra

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Yes, Ayurveda & Western medicine can be combined | Dr Uma Purighalla

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Hindu Identity and Education in America | Dr. Indu Viswanathan

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Hindus & Hinduism have influenced America for 250 years | Jeffrey D Long

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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

8

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

9

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

10

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

16

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

17

How you can find hope amidst ecological grief | Dheepa Maturi

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

27

Everything you wanted to know about sadhus*

28

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

30

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

33

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

71

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

116

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

117

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

130

Ashok Karmakar recounts the Bengali Hindu Genocide

131

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

132

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

134

Mandar Apte: film director, meditation teacher and peace activist

135

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

136

Ravinol Chambers, the Hindu monk who became a filmmaker

137

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

138

Artist Manjari Sharma explores how to wear a sari

139

What Hindu Americans can expect from the Biden-Harris administration

140

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

141

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

143

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

144

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.

146

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

147

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

148

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

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

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

154

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

155

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

156

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

157

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

162

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

163

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

166

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

167

Sham Sharma shows how mainstream media is getting India wrong

168

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

169

KASHMIR EXODUS DAY SPECIAL - Sunanda Vashisht

170

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

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Eddie Stern isn't a yoga guru