Each morning, our guide would rearrange our schedule to avoid cities and villages under attack. For Palestinians, this is their everyday.

This spirit of resistance and resilience has surrounded us the whole week. We could not allow ourselves to be scared or depressed while meeting such fighters.

As Hindus the world over observe Janmashtami, and meditate on the significance of the life of Shri Krishna, we must ask ourselves how we feel about the genocide that Israel has been waging against the people of Gaza for ten months, with no end in sight.

I am a Hindu American living in New York City, and my husband Stephan Shaw is a Jewish American. We are active in Jewish Voice for Peace and Hindus for Human Rights. Here's why this is necessary.

By leaving out the chief organiser, 'Hindus for Human Rights', from its attacks on the Republic Day US congressional briefing, is the mainstream Indian media indicating that it's afraid of a Hindu with a conscience?

The event was called off due to public outrage but we should never forget that a group linked through common parentage with India's ruling party actually offered its platform to a man who says "all Muslims should be eliminated".

What does it say about our world, about India, that a man that represents love and peace is in prison, accused of inciting communal disharmony, and denied bail twice?