Rajiv Malhotra

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rajiv Malhotra

• Rajiv is a Hindu nationalist ideologue.

• Rajiv Malhotra had studied to be a Physicist. He went on to become a Computer Scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence.

• Rajiv worked in the corporate sector in the United States before becoming an entrepreneur and running multiple IT companies in over 20 countries.

• Rajiv took an early retirement at the age of 44 and exited all for-profit activities in the early 1990s.

• In 1995, Rajive founded a non-profit organization, Infinity Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. He went on to also founded the Educational Council of Indic Traditions (ECIT) in the year 2000.

• Rajiv is a chairman of the board of governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Additionally, he served as a board member of the Foundation for Indic Philosophy and Culture at the Claremont Colleges.

• In October 2018, Rajiv was appointed as an honorary visiting professor at the Centre for Media Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

• More than 400 research works have been conducted by Infinity Foundation under Rajiv Malhotra.

• Rajiv, a prominent critic of Western academia on Hinduism, has authored several blogs and articles scrutinizing the work of scholars like Wendy Doniger.

• Several of Rajiv’s essays on Academic Hinduphobia from the 2000s were republished by Voice of India in 2016 under the title “Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger’s Erotic School of Indology.”

• As of 2024, Rajiv has published 16 books. His most popular books are “Breaking India: Western Interventions In Dravidian And Dalit Faultlines,” “Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0,” and “Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity.”

• Rajiv has been criticized for his work by many scholars, who say he disregards the usual canons of argument and scholarship, viewing it as a postmodern power play disguised as a defence of tradition.