What people say
"Centuries of colonisation have eroded our leadership tradition — the Arjuna Program is the antidote. The curriculum on Hindu identity, community organizing, and strategic communication is the most comprehensive training I have ever encountered. After completing the program, I set up a local chapter in my city that now serves over two hundred families. The ripple effects of what HRW is building through this program will be felt for generations."
"I was a victim of manipulative grooming and came to Hindu Rights Watch's Durga Program broken and afraid. The Love Jihad Victim Support unit provided me with legal aid, counselling, and a community of women who understood my suffering without judgment. The Digital Hygiene and Cyber Safety sessions helped me understand how I had been targeted and how to protect other women. Today I am a counselor in the same program that saved me. Hindu Rights Watch gave me back myself."
"In my village, young girls were disappearing into situations their families did not understand until it was too late. The Durga Program's predator awareness sessions opened the eyes of parents, girls, and local leaders alike. The legal rights awareness component told us exactly what steps to take when a girl goes missing or faces harassment. Since the program came to our block, we have stopped two trafficking attempts before they could succeed. That is what real empowerment looks like."
"When HRW team came to our Sarna tribal villages and conducted trafficking awareness sessions, it was the first time anyone had ever spoken to our daughters about how to protect themselves from grooming and conversion rackets. The facilitators treated our women with deep respect and explained everything in our language. I have seen three girls in our village use what they learned to get out of dangerous situations. The Durga Program does not just raise awareness — it saves lives."
"As a scholar of women's rights, I have engaged with many organizations, but the Durga Program is exceptional in how it weaves Hindu civilizational philosophy with practical protection and empowerment. The program correctly identifies that Hindu women have faced targeted violence — from forced conversions and trafficking to political communal attacks — and responds with structured, comprehensive interventions. This is evidence-based empowerment with a soul."
"Hindu Rights Watch's Rishi Valmiki Program has done something remarkable: it has used the Veer Ras — the warrior spirit — of our greatest poet-sage to restore Samajik Ekta in communities fractured by caste politics and ideological manipulation. Attending the program was like hearing a drum beaten that had been silent for too long. Families who had not spoken to each other for years sat together, listened together, and found common cause under Maharishi Valmiki's banner."
"The Shakti Activist Fellowship inside the Durga Program is unlike anything else available to Hindu women. I received mentorship, digital advocacy training, and community development tools that transformed me from a local worker into a regional voice for Hindu women's rights. When a Hindu woman reclaims her dignity, her entire civilization rises beside her — I understood that as a slogan before the program, and I understand it as a lived truth now."
"As a scholar of women's rights, I have engaged with many organizations, but the Durga Program is exceptional in how it weaves Hindu civilizational philosophy with practical protection and empowerment. The program correctly identifies that Hindu women have faced targeted violence — from forced conversions and trafficking to political communal attacks — and responds with structured, comprehensive interventions. This is evidence-based empowerment with a soul."
"There are forces that benefit when Hindu society remains fractured along caste lines. The Rishi Valmiki Program directly confronts this fracture by placing one of our civilization's greatest sages — who transcended every category by the power of his tapasya and genius — at the center of a conversation about Hindu unity and rights. The program brought together Brahmin and Dalit families in our district for the first time in living memory. This is the real revolution."