The Ongoing Page
How can we learn to communicate with our children at the level of meaning and context? How can we learn to listen and understand, with humility and empathy, how our children are making meaning of what we teach them?”
— from Hindu At Heart
I write regularly on Medium about education, interior life, culture, and the deeper questions shaping how we learn and live. These essays move between personal reflection and public inquiry—exploring Hindu American experiences, wonder in childhood, and the possibilities of consciousness in a changing world.
A selection of published essays, commentary, and scholarly work.
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