Right-Wing Hindu Groups Target US Academic Conference on Hindu Nationalism
Organizers and participants in an online U.S. academic conference on Hindu nationalism say right-wing Hindu groups targeted the meeting, calling it “anti-Hindu” and “Hindu-phobic.”
These organizers and participants in the September 10-12 Dismantling Global Hindutva (DGH) conference – “Hindutva” refers to a right-wing Hindu movement aiming to turn India into a Hindu state – say they received hate mail and death threats and that the attacks came from right-wing Hindu groups and their supporters.
Indian poet and activist Meena Kandasamy, a conference speaker, told VOA September 18 she had received an online death threat, while Rohit Chopra, an associate professor at Santa Clara University in California and conference organizer, said several participants had received death threats….
