This is the letter I wrote for schools.

This article was originally published on Medium on September 6, 2020, under the title “Italians are White”. I’m republishing it here under this new title to ensure that Hindus see it.

This type of nonsense makes my blood boil.

The systems of oppression don’t change, they just rebrand. One of the ways they rebrand is with tokens.

I pay attention to these outlets of information because I want to know what healing methods they’re culturally appropriating and what information they’re gatekeeping.

After one year of being public, these are some responses I received from community members who watched my 1,000 Years of Hindu Colonial Trauma presentation series.

The white people think this is ironic and don’t realize that the irony has flown right over their naked heads.

Is Ronny Chieng racist? Or is he correct in saying that Indians are not Asians?

Note that stripping Andrew of his titles and patronages was not the Queen's idea or desire.

If anything were ever proof about the systems of oppression, about Abrahamic supremacy, about the evil that is this empire, murdering little ol’ me would be it.

According to his former financial manager of 17 years, Joel Mandel, Johnny Depp earned more than $600 million between the years of 1999 and 2016.

It's St. David's Day.

I learned recently that during the European winter solstice celebrations, Indigenous tribes in Northern Europe worshipped a particular evergreen tree.

Ken Burns thinks there have been “glorious” chapters in US history. I’d like to ask him which chapters he considers to be “glorious”.

To all my Hindu ancestors and elders forced to fight and die and pay for Britain’s World Wars, I remember you.

Does no one see how classist and racist that term is? It's literally calling people "third class". Back in the day, trains had different carriages for different classes. Planes STILL have that system except we call it First, Business, and Coach. (Coach means "Third Class" for those of you who don't get it.)

This is how the world transitions from one supremacist empire to the next. It's happened before. It'll happen again. It's already happening.

A 200 hour yoga teacher training cannot make you a yoga teacher.

Who invited you into this space of yoga, non-Hindu non-Dharmic person with chronic pain? Who invited you into this sacred space?

I know for a fact it wasn't my people. They didn't knock on your door and invite you to "try" yoga.

An empire is the macro level of a domestic violence situation.

The abuser targets someone they want to exploit, stalks them, gaslights them, pressures them, forces them into a relationship that's unsafe, and isolates them from anyone who would help them.