White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s recent remarks that “Brahmins” are “profiteering” off India’s oil trade with Russia are “at best, a reflection of his utter ignorance” and “at worst, plainly racist”, says Suhag A. Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation, a non-profit advocacy organisation.
With U.S. cities like Seattle and Fresno including caste in their anti-discrimination Ordinances, and California becoming among the first States in the country to ban caste discrimination, the Hindu American Foundation has been at the forefront of resisting ongoing efforts to have caste explicitly recognised as a protected class in the U.S.
