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Select Journalistic Writing, and Public Scholarship

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• "Hindutva Ideology Within and Outside India," Critical Talk,Muslim Network TV, January 8, 2024.

• "Online Hindutva as a Global Right-wing Counterpublic," The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere, Social Science Research Council, October 12, 2022.

• "The Spectre of Hurt Religious Sentiments: On the Courage and Necessity of Salman Rushdie," Scroll, August 13, 2022.

• "Opinion: Indian Democracy is Marching Towards Authoritarianism, Under the Garb of Pluralism," Scroll, July 7, 2022.

• "How Credible is the Claim that India is on the Brink of a Genocide against its Muslim Citizens?" Scroll, April 22, 2022.

• "Caste Discrimination Exists in the U.S., too -But a Movement to Outlaw it is Growing," with Ajantha Subramanian, Time, February 11, 2022.

• "Can the Subaltern Tweet?: Holding Big Tech Accountable on Caste," with Paula Chakravartty, Scroll, June 16, 2021.

• "Anatomy of Privilege: The Alt-Racism of America and the Alt-Casteism of Indian Americans," American Kahani, June 14, 2021.​

• "Twitter's Capitulation to India's Repressi Government Shows That Only Some Lives Matter," Scroll, February 15, 2021.​

• "The Farmer Protests and the Limits of the Arnab-Watching Classes," Scroll, December 23, 2020.

• “Communication in the Time of COVID-19: Some Reflections on Ethics,” Ethics Spotlight, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, April 6, 2020.

• “Dear Pro-CAA Indian-Origin Protesters, You Feed Off US Secularism But Support Hindu Rashtra,” The Print India, January 20, 2020.

• “In India, WhatsApp is a Weapon of Antisocial Hatred,” The Conversation, April 23, 2019.

• “Fascist fest as Trump’s America meets Modi’s Hindus,” South China Morning Post, September 12, 2018.

• Both the Cambridge Analytica Scandal & the Aadhaar Fiasco Bear the Same Lesson for India,” The Print India, March 22, 2018.

• "Viewpoint: Why Hindu Groups Are Against California Textbook Change,” BBC News, May 27, 2016.

• "The Hindu right is quietly funding—and lobbying—American universities," Quartz, January 13, 2016.

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Cited/Quoted In the News

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• Jeong Park, Hindu Nationalism in India Ratchets Up Tensions Among Immigrants in the U.S." Los Angeles Times, September 6, 2022.

• Raqib Hameed Naik, "Silence is No Longer an Option," Al Jazeera Journalism Review, August 29, 2022.

• Shaikh Aziz Rahman, "Top Indian Court Grants Bail to Prominent Fact-Checker Journalist," Voice of America, July 20, 2022.

• Niha Masih, "Under Fire from Hindu Nationalist Groups, U.S.-based Scholars of South Asia Worry About Academic Freedom," The Washington Post, October 3, 2021.

• Niha Masih, "Under Fire from Hindu Nationalist Groups, U.S.-based Scholars of South Asia Worry About Academic Freedom," The Washington Post, October 3, 2021.

• Shaikh Azizur Rahman, "Right-Wing Hindu Groups Target US Academic Conference on Hindu Nationalism," Voice of America, September 19, 2021.

• Hannah Ellis-Petersen, "Death Threats Sent to Hindu Nationalism," The Guardian, September 9, 2021.

• Joseph Hammond, "Conference Fuels Growing US Debate Over Hindu Nationalism," Religion News Network, September 8, 2021.

• Raqib Hameed Naik, "US Academic Conference on ‘Hindutva’ Targeted by Hindu Groups," Al Jazeera, September 7, 2021.

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Media Coverage of Scholarly Work

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• Raj Oza, "The Gita: A Nishkama Chariot," India Currents, October 26, 2021.

• Raj Oza, "How Relevant is the Gita in our Modern World?" September 2021.

• Sukhada Tatke, "An Ethical Treatise," Open Magazine, July 2, 2021.

• Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr. "Book Review: Reading 'The Gita' Without Glossing Over Its Contradictions," The Wire,June 5, 2021.

• Excerpt,"Gita: A New Book Says its Focus on Action in the Face of Uncertainty Makes it Important for Our Time," Scroll.in, May 20, 2021