by Hindu Students Council | Feb 28, 2018 | News
Saturday, February 24th, 2018. New York. “Hindus are seekers of truth,” remarked Maitreyee Kale, president of Hindu Students Council’s (HSC) chapter at Stony Brook University, as she kicked off a panel discussion on Hindu identity. These words captured the general...
by Hindu Students Council | Apr 21, 2017 | Conferences, Events, Press Releases
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] April 16, 2017. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over 75 students and alumni from fourteen different universities, including MIT, Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Boston University, Stony Brook and others attended Hindu Students...
by Hindu Students Council | Mar 15, 2017 | News, Press Releases
March 13, 2017. New Jersey. Hindu students from all over the United States have expressed strong disappointment and opposition towards CNN’s ‘Believer’ Episode on Hinduism, which aired on March 5th and showed a heavily derogatory and out-of-context depiction of...
by Hindu Students Council | Mar 7, 2017 | HSC Articles, Uncategorized
March 6, 2017. By Parth Parihar, General Secretary of HSC Growing up as a Hindu in America, I was often my friends’ only readily available resource about Hinduism. According to the Pew Research Forum, only 22% of Americans know a Hindu—the lowest percentage of any of...
by Hindu Students Council | Mar 7, 2017 | News, Uncategorized
March 7, 2017. On Sunday evening, March 5, CNN screened an episode as part of a documentary series, ‘Believer,’ produced by religious scholar Reza Aslan that presented a distorted and biased view of Hinduism. The documentary focused on the rare Aghora...
