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Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash (Amy Qin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/usha-jd-vance-christianity-religion-hindu.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p146#a251031p146

Mehdi's interview with Muhammad Yunus:
#MehdiHasan

EXCLUSIVE: Mehdi Sits Down With Bangladeshi Leader Muhammad Yunus to Talk Revolution, Elections, and Human Rights
The Nobel Peace Laureate accuses India of spreading ‘fake news’ about anti-Hindu violence.

Major real-money gaming platforms in India halted cash games after President Murmu signed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, into law (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/real-money-gaming-fir…

Turning Point Crowd Rips Ramaswamy's Hindu Faith - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/turning-point-crowd-rips-ramaswamys-hindu-faith/

#KashPatel

Indian officials say that over the past year, all 1.2M email addresses of Central Government employees migrated to a platform developed by Chennai-based Zoho (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ema

Photo of Angkor Wat (Cambodia) with a cow and a pig in the foreground by my father.
Angkor Wat is the largest Hindu temple complex in the world, situated at Angkor, Cambodia, built by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city.
#AngkorWat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
When I visited (decades later) tourists filled the fields instead of…

trying to find out which way round indians wrote their numbers over 1000 years ago, and as always the answer is “it’s complicated”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhāskara_I#Representation_of_numbers
hindu-arabic numbers have always been big-end-on-left rega…

Women's inheritance rights reforms and impact on women's empowerment: evidence from India
Minali Grover, Ajay Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10437 https://

Women's inheritance rights reforms and impact on women's empowerment: evidence from India
This paper explores the influence of inheritance rights on women' empowerment in India. We employ the quasi-natural experiment framework wherein; five states amended the Hindu Succession Act (HSA) from 1976 to 1994 before it was federally amended in 2005. Further, we apply difference-in-difference (DID) strategy and consider triangulation approach to identify women empowerment indicators namely: access to resources, agency, and outcomes to measure varying dimensions of empowerment. Using the In…

A more beautiful sculpture of Ganesha does not (and cannot possibly) exist.
(Aug. 30th, #Udupi #Karnataka #India)
#Hindu #Ganesha #clay #art #sculpture #photography #amateur