“Smash Brahminical Patriarchy” Poster Draws Wrath of Patriarchal Brahmins

Rights group: “Outrage of upper-castes only emerges in response to anti-caste action”

NEW DELHI: Nov. 21, 2018 — After Twitter CEO and Co-Founder Jack Dorsey was pictured in India holding a poster reading, “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy,” pundits across the internet … Read More

Gandhi’s Views on Race and Caste Inspire Hindu Nationalists

“Particularly on the issue of caste, Gandhi was the Hindu right,” claims author Arundhati Roy

On the occasion of Gandhi’s 148th Jayanti (birthday), one of only three national holidays in India, questions and protests continue to mount around the glorification of a … Read More

Jharkhand Becomes Ninth Indian State To Regulate Religious Conversion

Over a quarter of India’s states have adopted anti-conversion laws criminalizing freedom of religion

Ranchi, Jharkhand: September 12, 2017 — Jharkhand, in northern India, became the most recent state in the country to criminalize religious freedom when its governor, Draupadi … Read More

Indian Journalist Assassinated After Career Criticizing Hindutva

Anti-caste and anti-communal, Gauri Lankesh wanted people to “become universal”

Bengaluru, Karnataka: September 7, 2017 — Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist who was gunned down outside her home in Bengaluru on the evening of September 5, denounced “Brahman hegemony” in … Read More

California Seminar Warns “Brahman Raj” Rules India

Exposing Brahman Raj, Dr. Manisha Bangar warns: “Hindutva means nothing but a sociopolitical structure of the society based on caste and varna”

Lathrop, CA, USA: May 29, 2017 – “Guru Gobind Singh and other Gurus were able to bring about … Read More

India’s Persecuted Spotlighted at Anglican Church Seminar

Exposing caste atrocities and denouncing persecution of India’s religious minorities, speaker warns: “The caste system is against love”

Marysville, CA: May 25, 2017 – When the Rev. Dr. James Mariner of Trinity Anglican Church welcomed Indian human rights advocate Dr. Manisha … Read More

“Caste Apartheid” Responsible for Death of Dalit Scholar Rohith Vermula

Communities raise concern that officials are at fault for culpable homocide

Organizations representing Indian-American interests gathered in San Francisco at the Indian Consulate on Friday to submit an official memorandum decrying government policies following the suicide of a Dalit student … Read More

Unionist Punjabi Statesman Sir Chhotu Ram Commemorated in California

Hayward, CA: Nov. 22, 2015 — Traveling from Hyderabad, India to join a California gathering of Indian minorities in commemorating the 134th birth anniversary of … Read More

Editorial: First Asian in U.S. Congress Was a Sikh Inspired by Civil Rights Principles

Dalip Singh Saund spoke against “coddling kings and dictators and protecting the status quo”

The same year the United States passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, an immigrant in California achieved the triple honor of becoming the first Asian, … Read More

Editorial: What if we listened to Dr. Ambedkar?

OFMI advisor Pieter Friedrich presented the following remarks at a July 19 banquet hosted by the Begampura Educational and Cultural Society of Sacramento, CA.

Ladies and Gentlemen —

I am honored at the opportunity to speak in honor of Dr. … Read More