# Pieter Friedrich

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Journalist | Author

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- [“Hindu Raj” Single Greatest Roadblock to Progress of Dr. Ambedkar’s Caravan](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/hindu-raj-single-greatest-roadblock-to-progress-of-dr-ambedkars-caravan/): Speech originally presented at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti Celebration hosted by Dr. Ambedkar Mission Society Europe (Germany) on 14 April 2022. Jai Bhim! The middle of April marks some of the most monumental events in the struggle against caste, that insidious and poisonous, invisibilized but most potent form of oppression which has tormented so many throughout South Asia
- [US Must Stop “Monitoring” Human Rights Crisis in India, Start Acting](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/us-must-stop-monitoring-human-rights-crisis-in-india-start-acting/): On the 11th of April, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference in Washington, DC with the US Secretary of Defense and their Indian counterparts. At the press conference, Blinken stated: “We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values (of human rights) and to that end, we are monitoring
- [Persecution of Indian Christians Impacts US National Security](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/persecution-of-indian-christians-impacts-us-national-security/): Speaking at a US Congressional briefing marking the launch of the Federation of Indian American Churches of North America’s (FIACONA) 2022 report on persecution of Indian Christians by the Hindu nationalist movement, I discussed how the situation impacts US national security interests in South Asia as well as here at home in the US. Here’s what I said: When I speak
- [California City Pressured to Renounce Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh Praise](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/california-city-pressured-to-renounce-hindu-swayamsevak-sangh-praise/): When Roseville, a quiet suburb of California’s capital city of Sacramento, platformed and praised the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) in late 2021, they were not only unaware that HSS is the international wing of India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) paramilitary but also the embarrassment that their act would cause the city. On 17 November 2021, the Roseville City Council
- [The Erasure: California Panel Claims Indian Muslims Face Impending Genocide](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/the-erasure-california-panel-claims-indian-muslims-face-impending-genocide/): “India is subsumed in a momentous political crisis, the most daunting since 1950,” warned Dr. Angana Chatterji of the University of California, Berkeley on March 12. “The practice of illiberal democracy today is accompanied by the call to fascism and the extermination of Muslims.” Chatterji (who joined via Zoom) was speaking at a San Diego,
- [Indian Christians Persecuted By Movement That Calls Them Traitors](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/indian-christians-persecuted-by-movement-that-calls-them-traitors/): Since 1947, when the Republic of India gained its independence, it has gone through many rough patches. Yet with all the ups and downs, the young country gradually grew into its own as a generally stable, secular democracy. Bold and courageous Indians debated, and toiled, and not only worked — or began working — through
- [Why I’m Crashing Screenings of “Kashmir Files” in California](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/why-im-crashing-screenings-of-kashmir-files-in-california/): As I bought a bottle of water from the concession stand in a Northern California theater on 19 March 2022, the staffer asked me, “What movie are you seeing?” “‘Kashmir Files’,” I said. “Oh,” he responded. “It must be good. It’s almost sold out.” Indeed it was. Not good, rather, but sold out. Popularity, however,
- [Texas doctor demands “retribution” after Kashmir Files film](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/texas-doctor-demands-retribution-after-kashmir-files-film/): “Retribution,” declared Rajiv Pandit, a doctor based in Dallas, TX, in response to a call to “pay… back 100 fold, in their own coin,” those allegedly responsible for the 1990 Kashmir Pandit Exodus portrayed in the recent film, “Kashmir Files.” The call was issued by an anonymous (and newly created) account with the handle “Right-Wing Alpha” in response to Dr Pandit’s original

## Pages

- [](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/): I’m a US-based independent journalist and author who documents religious nationalism, caste oppression, and transnational repression in South Asia and its diaspora.
- [Reporting](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/reporting/): Reporting Settler Colonialism & Indigenous Rights How state-sponsored settlement programs displace indigenous populations — from South Asia to the Middle East. "Bangladesh's Oslo: The Chittagong Hill Tracts and the Erasure of an Indigenous People," Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 2026 Ethnonationalism & Hindutva The global infrastructure of Hindu nationalism and its convergence with other
- [About Pieter Friedrich](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/about-pieter-friedrich/): About My cover article in India's Caravan magazine was the first systematic investigation of the global political networks of India's Hindu nationalist movement, the RSS. That investigation — tracing organizational connections from New Delhi through Houston to Washington — became the template for everything I've reported since: following how ethnonationalist movements operate across borders
- [Articles & Essays](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/articles-essays-archive/): 2025 "Tulsi Gabbard (and Hindutva) Have Won For The Present Moment," IndiaLife "As a U.S. Citizen, I’m Threatened When Criticizing India’s Modi," The Indian Panorama "Tulsi Gabbard: The Princess of the RSS and Me," CounterCurrents.org "America’s Chameleon: Tulsi Gabbard’s Bizarre Metamorphosis," CounterCurrents.org 2024 "Some Constituents Disturbed By U.S. Congress Candidate Suhas Subramanyam’s Pro-Modi Donors," CounterCurrents.org
- [News About Pieter](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/about/news/): 2023 "Former Staff Says Tulsi Gabbard 'Fraud' Politics Supported by Alleged Cult" | Newsweek "Tulsi Gabbard’s metamorphosis is the quintessential case study in political shape-shifting" | Frontline "Tulsi Gabbard's Ties to India's Modi and His Hindu Nationalist Movement" | Newsweek "The Hindutva Lobby" | Harper's Magazine "Anti-Modi activists protest the Indian prime minister's New York visit"
- [Interviews With Pieter](https://www.pieterfriedrich.com/interviews/): Featured Interviews 2023 "Truth Behind Hindutva Nationalism in America" | Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi "Why Should American Christians Care About Persecution in India?" | Pacific Justice Institute "Banned in India" | DDGeopolitics "Unveiling Saffron America" | Voice of South Asia "US Politicians Funded by RSS Saffron" | Tamil America TV "How India Politics Increase

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