On Jan. 12, 2021, I was sitting in my parked car, waiting on takeout and watching the funeral of my friend Arun, who had unexpectedly died of COVID-19 only a few days earlier. I was familiar with the ...
The unexpected death of a friend and colleague to COVID-19 in January 2021 led me to start researching how American death rituals were transforming during the pandemic. My friend was Hindu, and while ...
It isn't just artists and teachers who are losing sleep over advances in automation and artificial intelligence. Robots are being brought into Hinduism's holiest rituals – and not all worshippers are ...