Hindu Post
Overview
Hindu Post, published at hindupost.in and often styled HinduPost, is an English-language digital news, commentary and opinion outlet covering issues concerning Hindu society in India and worldwide. In its own description on its Patreon page, HinduPost says it provides what it calls the correct perspective on issues concerning Hindu society, argues that the perspective offered in traditional media either marginalises or distorts the facts when reporting on such issues, and says it fills that gap by providing an uncompromising voice to more than a billion Hindus across the world. That mission statement is essential to understanding the site: it is an advocacy-oriented news outlet, open about its standpoint, rather than a neutral general news portal.
The outlet publishes a high volume of short news reports, explainers and opinion pieces, most of them framed around Hindu religious, social and political concerns: temple affairs, religious persecution and communal incidents, conversion and demographic debates, law and policy affecting Hindu institutions, and criticism of other media's coverage. Its donation appeal, quoted in a 2024 Bellingcat investigation of Hindu nationalist websites, sums up its pitch to supporters in a few words: Hindu Post presents itself as the voice of Hindus and asks readers to support it and protect Dharma.
Position in India's Digital Media Landscape
Hindu Post emerged during the rapid growth of openly ideological digital news in India in the mid-2010s. Its archive already contained media-criticism series by 2017, including a multi-part inquiry asking who runs and funds media organisations it described as Hinduphobic and Bharat-bashing, beginning with The Wire, which had been founded in 2015. That early series shows the role Hindu Post assigned itself from the start: not only reporting incidents affecting Hindus, but also acting as a watchdog, from its own perspective, over how mainstream and liberal outlets report religion and politics in India.
The site should not be confused with The Hindu, the long-established Chennai-based daily newspaper. Bellingcat's investigation makes that distinction explicitly, describing Hindu Post as a separate website that claims to provide the correct perspective on issues concerning Hindu society. Where The Hindu is a mainstream broadsheet, Hindu Post is a digital-native, standpoint-driven publication whose news selection and headlines are shaped by its stated mission.
Coverage Areas and Beats
Hindu Post's coverage is organised around the concerns named in its mission. A large share of its output reports incidents it frames as persecution of or targeted crimes against Hindu communities, in India and in neighbouring countries and the diaspora. Temple-related news — administration, encroachment, desecration, festivals and disputes — forms another regular beat, as do reports on religious conversion, which the site covers extensively and critically. Political coverage follows parties, governments and court cases through the same lens, with particular attention to legislation and judicial decisions affecting Hindu religious practice and institutions.
Alongside news reports, the site carries commentary and opinion on history, culture, Dharma and media behaviour. Its writers revisit historical episodes, religious texts and public debates from a Hindu perspective, and its media section critiques coverage by larger outlets that it believes misrepresents Hindu society. Social issues — education, family law, and the position of Hindus in different Indian states — complete a file that is national in scope but thematic rather than geographic: a story qualifies for Hindu Post primarily because of its bearing on Hindu society, wherever it happens.
Editorial Standpoint and Voice
Hindu Post does not claim political neutrality, and readers should not approach it expecting any. Its own materials describe traditional media coverage of Hindu issues as marginalising or distorted, and position the outlet as the corrective. Headlines and reports therefore use the vocabulary of the Hindu movement — Bharat for India, Dharma for religion and duty — and frame incidents in terms of threat and defence of Hindu society. Supporters value that candour and regard the site as a necessary counterweight; critics regard the same framing as polemical.
That debate is part of the site's documented public record. The 2024 Bellingcat investigation into how Hindu nationalist websites make their money examined Hindu Post's funding appeals and content, criticising a number of its recurring themes and claims, and Indian fact-checking outlets have, according to that investigation, reported instances in which Hindu Post added religious connotations to incidents that fact-checkers said the evidence did not support, including a village land dispute presented as a conversion case. A balanced profile has to note both halves of that record: the outlet's self-described mission to amplify Hindu perspectives, and the scrutiny its accuracy and framing have attracted from investigators and fact-checkers.
Funding and Support Model
Hindu Post is reader-supported. Its Patreon page invites supporters to contribute monthly amounts ranging from a few dollars to a hundred dollars a month to, in its words, make the Hindu voice heard, and its website carries donation appeals to protect Dharma. The Bellingcat investigation, which focused on foreign contributions and Indian foreign-funding law, described Hindu Post as a Delhi-based website — while this directory lists the outlet under Mumbai — and examined how sites in its category solicit support from readers in India and abroad, including through payment and crowdfunding platforms.
For readers, the practical point is that Hindu Post's economics differ from those of advertising-led news portals. A publication sustained by committed supporters is writing for a community that already shares much of its outlook, and its content is shaped by that relationship: campaigns, appeals and coverage priorities speak directly to donors as participants in a cause, not only as consumers of news.
Digital Presence and Platforms
Hindu Post's home is its website, hindupost.in, a continuously updated feed of news, commentary and opinion in English. Articles are published under staff and contributor bylines, including HinduPost Staff reports, and are organised by theme — politics, society, Dharma, media and world coverage among them — so that readers can follow a single concern across many incidents and states. The site has been active since at least 2017, and its archive of recurring subjects is large; Bellingcat noted in 2024 that it had published more than 1,300 articles on a single recurring theme it covers, which gives a sense of the volume and persistence of its output.
Beyond the website, the outlet uses crowdfunding and social platforms to distribute stories and raise support, and its content is frequently shared and debated in India's polarised online media ecosystem, where it is cited approvingly by sympathetic outlets and critically by opponents. That visibility in argument — as a source and as a subject — is itself part of its presence: Hindu Post is regularly written about by other media, including international investigators, which few Indian digital outlets of its size achieve.
Audience and Community Role
The audience Hindu Post addresses is explicitly global: Hindus in India and in the worldwide diaspora who feel their concerns are under-reported elsewhere. For that audience, the site performs several functions at once. It is a news alert service for incidents involving Hindus, especially in places where such news may not reach national media. It is an archive of grievances and campaigns that activists can cite. And it is a community space in which a particular interpretation of Indian events — centred on Hindu society's interests — is articulated daily and in detail.
Its community role also includes mobilisation. Donation appeals, coverage of temple and conversion controversies, and sustained attention to anti-Hindu incidents in other countries are all designed to inform and to rally. Readers who value the outlet typically describe it as giving voice to stories they believe would otherwise be ignored; readers who distrust it point to the fact-checking disputes noted above. Both reactions confirm the same underlying fact: Hindu Post is an influential participant in India's argument about how religion should be reported.
How to Read and Support Hindu Post
Readers can follow Hindu Post at hindupost.in, browsing its themed sections or its continuous news feed, and can support it through the donation and Patreon routes described on its pages, where monthly support is invited at a range of levels. As with any standpoint-driven outlet, it is best read knowingly: its mission, stated in its own words, is to provide a Hindu perspective that it believes traditional media withholds, and its reporting should be understood — and, where a claim matters, cross-checked — in that light. Read that way, it is a useful primary source for understanding how a significant strand of Indian digital Hindu activism sees current events, and for following the temple, conversion, persecution and media debates that animate that movement.
