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23.01.2022 Where are the Pandavas? Rajiv Malhotra interviewed by Vijaya Vishwanathan

20.01.2022 Rajiv Malhotra's reply to Young Law Student & Human Rights Activist at Art of Living Follow Rajiv Malhotra

19.01.2022 Question-Answer session with John Dayal & Rajeev Malhotra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeYBmwE8NIc

18.01.2022 Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev praises Rajiv's book. Follow Rajiv Malhotra

15.01.2022 Rajiv Malhotras new upcoming book " Academic Hinduphobia" http://hinduphobia.com/

13.01.2022 Rajiv Malhotras reply to Young Law Student & Human Rights Activist at Art of Living Follow Rajiv Malhotra

13.01.2022 Watch and share this Youtube discussion I had with Dr. Subramanian Swamy - AUDIO IS FIXED in this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr29r9gnq6A

13.01.2022 Koenraad Elsts review of "The Battle For Sanskrit" appearing in Hinduism Today magazine. Please read it: thebattleforsanskrit.com/hinduism-today

11.01.2022 We are pleased to invite you to a thought-provoking talk series on "Intellectual Kshatriya". The first interactive talk in this series would be delivered by Sh Ashay Naik. When: 5:00 PM AM to 6:30 PM AEST Saturday, 8th Apr 2017... Where: Please Registration today on www.infinityfoundation.com.au/iktalk/ Join via YouTube Live from comfort of your home Looking forward to seeing you in the event. Team IFA

11.01.2022 Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev praises Rajivs book. Follow Rajiv Malhotra

07.01.2022 Christianity needs major reform in order to allow acceptance of others.

07.01.2022 My new book. ACADEMIC HINDUPHOBIA: A critique of Wendy Donigers erotic school of Indology. hinduphobia.com/foreword/ Foreword... In the late 1990s, a major controversy broke when I started to critique Wendy Donigers depictions of Hinduism which most Hindus found vulgar and outright insulting. Some were too embarrassed to face them while many others found it too controversial to go public with their feelings. What started out as my debate with her students quickly turned into public outrage. There were numerous demands for better representation by practicing Hindus in the scholarship about their tradition. Soon after my initial articles, Wendy Donigers own University of Chicago Magazine interviewed me and did a large and balanced coverage. It was their leading story. The Doniger camp was shaken up at the vulnerability of this icon of Hindu studies. Things flared up between the Indian diaspora and the American academy for several years, with numerous mobilizations and accusations from both sides. This fight was one of the defining moments in the awakening of Hindu thinkers about the way their discourse was controlled and distorted by others. The academic study of Hinduism has not been the same since. The drama further intensified because with the help of her hordes of powerfully placed students, Doniger fought back. She arranged a front page article in The Washington Post and another feature article in The New York Times. Unlike the balanced treatment by the magazine of her own university, these were PR jobs tilted heavily in her favor. The theater widened across the academic and literary circles of Europe, North America, and India as more players joined in on both sides. Martha Nussbaum, the prominent feminist and University of Chicago colleague of Doniger, wrote a scathing book against Hindus and Hinduism with a whole chapter dedicated to me without bothering to interview me even though that was suggested to her. She and Doniger have consistently ignored my requests for a live debate in public. In response to what I felt was a one-sided portrayal of the events, three supporters compiled a new book, titled, Invading the Sacred: An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America, and it was published in 2007. Its launch video gives a good idea of our side of the story. (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtiARMXwI0Q) The fallout of all this was very significant: Wendy Doniger lost her clout in the American academy, and found herself on the defensive. She lost most of the students who earlier thronged at her doorstep for PhDs in Hinduism. The American academy made numerous changes (still not enough) to become sensitive to Hindus views; at least these academics have become less blatant in their denigration of Hinduism. The most significant change was that there emerged a new appreciation among Hindus and a new mobilization of their leaders. It became widely accepted that it was a bad idea to outsource the study of our tradition to scholars whose lenses were programmed with Judeo-Christian and/or Marxist doctrines. In fact, no other major world faith is studied by outsiders with the same authority, power and negative perspective as Hinduism is. A brilliant compilation of these debates and controversies has recently been turned into a web site for those who want to get a good overview. (See: http://beingdifferentforum.blogspot.in//hitchhikers-guide-) Meanwhile, I moved on to many other projects of research and publishing, pretty much forgetting Wendy Doniger as a closed chapter for my work. But the story does not end here. Some years back, Doniger struck a new alliance to help her make a dramatic comeback: She positioned herself with the Indian Left as their expert on criticizing Hinduism. Since Indian secularists are uneducated in Sanskrit and are only superficially informed about religious studies, Doniger was a useful ally to supply them masala which they could use in their simplistic works. In turn, the well-connected Indian secularist/leftist media and writers helped to reposition Doniger within India as a great authority on Hinduism. Soon she was winning awards in India, even though back home in the U.S. her own academic colleagues had distanced themselves because she was seen as a tainted scholar with a bad reputation. Read more at the books website.

05.01.2022 Probably the biggest mass conversation in modern history was inflicted on Kalasha community in Pakistan when they were forced to convert from their Buddhist faith to Islam. The ones who didnt convert then, still face persecution today like all religious minorities in Pakistan. The most common tool Islamic goons use is to to kidnap women (of all ages from children to married women, anyone), force convert them to Islam and keep them in their harem.... Hindus, Kalasha, Sikh or Christians, all communities are facing this menace, yet international community continues to practice their convenient silence while munching their Iftar dinners. - Balesh Dhankhar

05.01.2022 Five types in the kurukshetra: 1) Opponents 2) Home Team 3) Independent senior leaders collaborating with us... 4) Pests 5) Spectators Rajiv Malhotra