The Ongoing Page
I write about education, belonging, Hindu American life, inner life, and the questions that sit at the edges of all of them. My essays move between personal reflection and public inquiry — and are now collected primarily on Substack, where I write for a growing community of readers who are curious about these same things. A selection of published essays, commentary, and scholarly work is listed below. Earlier essays are also available on Medium.
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Looking for earlier work? My archived work through 2025 lives on Medium and I'll be bringing the best of it to Substack over the coming months.
Examining Anti-Hindu Bias in American Public Education: The Endogenous Cycle of Hinduphobia.Journal of the Council for Research on Religion. Spring 2025.
Sthapatya Shiksha: Hindu Temple Architecture Education. In Indigenous Technology Knowledge Systems. June 20, 2023.
Annihilistic Doubt: Countering the Colonial Assumption that Hinduism is Not Rational or Modern.American Kahani, January 4, 2023
The Makers of HBO’s ‘White Lotus’ Should Know Gayatri Mantra is Not Some New Age Energetic Warm Compress.American Kahani, November 18, 2022
13 Reasons Why Natasha Noman’s Review of Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ is Hinduphobic Trash. American Kahani, August 23, 2022
Claiming the freedom to decide who is Hindu American. Religion News Service, September 10, 2021
Hinduphobia is a reality. Scholars at ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ conference must know.The Print, Parth Parihar and Indu Viswanathan, September 7, 2021.
When retail and reverence collide.Religion News Service, Indu Viswanathan & Parth Parihar, January 20, 2020
Decolonizing the Sabarimala Debate: Why Western Ideologies Don’t Fit Ancient Indian Practices. Brown Girl Magazine, January 8, 2019