This podcast episode features a conversation with Safa Ahmed and Pranay Somayajula, partners of the Savera coalition, to examine the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) and its efforts to reframe Hindu supremacy as a struggle for minority rights. Their discussion explores how HAF, a leading Hindu nationalist organization in the U.S., strategically positions Hindu supremacist ideology within narratives of racial marginalization and religious advocacy.
Safa and Pranay address how Hindu and dominant caste immigrants in the U.S. often adopt the “people of color” identity, obscuring their perpetuation of caste hierarchies and religious oppression. They unpack HAF’s role in conflating critiques of caste or Islamophobia with attacks on Hindu identity, while forging ties with U.S. conservative groups opposing racial justice efforts.
Hear more below, or at Inform Your Resistance.