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‘False villainization’: Hindu American Foundation director speaks up on Peter Navarro’s ‘Brahmin’ attack

Hindu American Foundation director Suhag A Shukla said Peter Navarro’s Brahmin statement was a slur. President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro recently made a snide remark amid the ongoing trade war and said Brahmins are making profits as India continues to buy oil from Russia. A major row broke out over whether he meant […]

‘Colonial-era trope’: Hindu group flags Peter Navarro’s Brahmin remark; urges Donald Trump to sack him

Peter Navarro (File photo) A Hindu advocacy group, HinduPACT’s American Hindus Against Defamation (AHAD), on Tuesday demanded the dismissal of top US official Peter Navarro from President Donald Trump’s team, condemning his remarks as “inappropriate and Hinduphobic.” The group objected to Navarro’s reference to caste and his “portrayal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a […]

Random Musing: Why Peter Navarro evoked the Brahmin Bogeyman | World News

With the benefit of hindsight – much like Ultron deciding to destroy the world after spending a few seconds online and seeing humans interact with one another – the warrior priest Parashurama’s divine fury is quite understandable, given how the word “Brahmin” has become a bogeyman in modern parlance, not just in India but globally. […]

Donald Trump advisor Peter Navarro’s ‘Brahmin profiteering’ remark sparks social media fury | World News

In September 2018, the former CEO of Twitter (as the predecessor of X was then called) Jack Dorsey set the cat among the pigeons when he posed with a group in India holding a sign that read: Smash Brahminical Patriarchy. Vijaya Gadde, the then legal, policy and trust and safety lead of Twitter, had to […]

Astronomer’s Kristin Cabot from Coldplay ‘kiss cam’ moment is married into an elite ‘Boston Brahmin’ family — who are the Boston Brahmins, and how wealthy is her family? | World News

Kristin Cabot, the head of human resources at the tech company Astronomer, was thrust into the spotlight after a viral “kiss cam” moment during a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Captured in an intimate pose with CEO Andy Byron, both of whom are married to other people, Cabot’s sudden internet fame triggered not just workplace […]

Anurag Kashyap says, “This is my apology, not for my post but for that one line taken out of context” after backlash over anti-Brahmin remark : Bollywood News

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has issued a clarification in the wake of a growing social media storm over his controversial remarks on Brahmins. The backlash stems from a comment he made in response to a user who wrote, “Brahmins tumhare baap hain…” (Brahmins are your fathers), to which Kashyap replied, “Brahmin pe main mootoonga.. koi problem?” […]