{"id":1132,"date":"2001-08-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/23\/2001-08-23-pbs-radio-the-rising-profile-of-hinduism-in-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2001-08-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-23T12:00:00","slug":"2001-08-23-pbs-radio-the-rising-profile-of-hinduism-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/23\/2001-08-23-pbs-radio-the-rising-profile-of-hinduism-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Radio: The Rising Profile of Hinduism in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/week451\/feature.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>USA, August 19, 2001: At close to 1.5 million, Hindus now form the fifth largest religious group in America after Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Recently, the increased attention to Hinduism has come from a clash with an American icon &#8212; McDonald&#8217;s. This PBS radio segment conducted by Fred de Sam Lazaro illustrates how the McDonald&#8217;s french fry lawsuit is galvanizing the Hindu community into becoming more vocal, and therefore a more noticed and better-understood facet of American culture and society. It includes interviews with Attorney Harish Bharti, Columbia Professor Sreenath Sreenivasan, Dr. Uma Mysorekar, and first-ever Hindu state senator, Minnesota&#8217;s Satveer Chaudhury.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE USA, August 19, 2001: At close to 1.5 million, Hindus now form the fifth largest religious group,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}