A few thoughts, this will be a longish response so here it goes:
I much like the author did grow up in the US as part of a Tamil and Kannada Brahmin family and had a similar experience as her in terms of balavihar and such. We grew up speaking Tamil, visiting India, temples (1/n) https://twitter.com/mathangiwrites/status/1354156530925494277

learning dance, music, playing sports, mantras, and so on. My sisters and I learned it all together. So when we reached puberty, I got my upanayam, my sisters each had family ceremonies when they had their first periods. I had to do my morning rituals everyday for 45 min (2/n)

whereas my sisters could do 30sec to 2 min of prayer then go on with their day. I know they still feel upset about not being able to go to temples when on their period and they don't agree with the rationale. Maybe that is patriarchy? (3/n)

The author has a Phd, I have a JD, my sister has an MA and I'm sure all our parents including our fathers didn't say women shouldn't be educated or less so than a man. My father wanted my sisters to be better to be independent of any person. Brahmin Patriarchy? (4/n)

The rest of the essay follows the same idea of I didn't like being Hindu so therefore it is patriarchal, casteist, oppressive, etc.. Then to justify that position, the move to India aspect. I too moved to India both in college for a year then a couple years from 2015-2017 (5/n)

My experience was different, I worked in an office where all genders, castes, religions, regions, and backgrounds. I spent time with them going to their weddings, playing cricket (badly but I bat like a champ), microbrews, and just hanging out. We did discuss religion (6/n)

India and its people are a religious people, they live and breathe their religions, it instructs every aspect of their lives and if you didn't have those conversations, maybe you weren't scratching beyond the surface. Your one interaction with a judge isn't evidence of ... (7/n)

anything but one person and one interaction, everyone has their own bigotry and prejudices. I hear often that Brahmins robbed other castes of financial and social capital for generations but since you are making the claim, what is your evidence? Or is it just a divine truth? 8/n

I'm not defending Brahmins but then I don't even know what brahmin community to defend Iyer, Iyengar, Maithili, Deshasta, Konkan, Gowda Saraswat, or the dozens of others? People separated by thousands of miles, languages, customs, ideas, philosophy, history and such 9/n

Brahmins and all other castes in India are complex and diverse, but let's not actually seep ourselves into that, it's much each to have a villain, nome du jour is Brahminism. It's wrong to vilify Muslims, and it is, but it's ok to do that to Brahmins or any other group?

Until the Indian freedom struggle, brahmin groups had very little political, financial, or military power, that laid in the hands of other communities and castes, some of it still does. The reason brahmins became more prominent is because of the focus on education (11/n)

and that some of them willingly or unwillingly worked for the British in developing methods to administrate the chaos that is the Indian cultural-socio-economic world. So some of them got access. Without there are some brahmins that are gatekeepers but many over centuries.. 12/n

had also worked to help the downtrodden, the ones who society had pushed away. Stop the horrible broad brush vilifying a complex diverse group of people and be nuanced. There are many things each Brahmin group can look at and address, as is the truth for all castes. 13/n

The suffering and the pain and hurt of Dalits, OBC, and other communities should not be forgotten or ignored or brushed away, we need to work to address that as a society with compassion and love in our hearts. Our identities as human beings are linked to many things...14/n

our race, our gender, our sexual orientation, our religion, our nationality, and the list goes on. You are free to be Indian and not Hindu, but that is akin to saying you are your mother's daughter but not your great grandmother's descendent. India isn't just Hindu but... 15/n

that is its foundation in culture, languages, literature, traditions, practices, history, and so on. Everyone partakes in that in India. On top of that is built Islamic influence, British influence, and thousands of other cultures that have merged into the tapestry.

Hinduism is vast, I'm sorry you haven't gained anything of value from it, but it informs, enlivens, and is the foundation of many people's lives including hundreds of millions of Dalits, OBC, and other castes and communities that create India and Hinduism. 17/n

In your ignorance, you deny them the power they have in Hinduism, how important all these people have been to saving the practices and festivals, and ideas of Hinduism. In modern India, no power can exist without the support of these communities, BJP is in power because of them

These communities took the crap they have been given over the years and molded it to achieve some of what they want,more needs to be done but don't deny them the changes they have done. They aren't victims but are driving change like @Abhina_Prakash @IGuruPrakash , let them speak

Pandering to a westernized diaspora, who have swallowed the entire framework of looking at their homeland and traditions from a colonialized lens is low hanging fruit and essentializes us into basically some random cultural things, food and being brown. Civilizational suicide