The Gujarat High Court recently invoked a Hindu religious text 'Skanda Purana' to emphasise the value of a mother in society, while permitting a 17-year-old girl to abort her 19-week pregnancy,
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images“Faith, patriotism, belief in God, nation… those have disappeared. That leaves a moral vacuum in its wake.” This kind of rhetoric has long been a fixture of Republican politics, so it's no surprise that this was a sentiment expressed by a 2024 GOP presidential candidate.What is surprising, however, is that the candidate in question, Vivek Ramaswamy, is a millennial Hindu American candidate whose parents, like my own, immigrated to th
A sex scene from Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster “Oppenheimer” has come under fierce criticism in India after a clip from the movie went viral and sparked the ire of Hindu nationalists. In the scene, Cillian Murphy’s character reads from a sacred Hindu text — the Bhagavad Gita — alongside Florence Pugh, who plays psychiatrist and physician…