Kumar was born in Hyderabad, India (the site of several recent jihad attacks) in a traditional, orthodox Hindu family. He describes his upbringing as “a paradox of intellectual liberalism and personal conservatism.” His great love and respect for his father clearly helped to shape his belief that loss of the father in the home is one of the greatest tragedies of modern culture and the thing that has the most deleterious effect, not only in terms of rising poverty levels, but the greater problems that occur when cultural values are no longer transmitted from fathers to their children, including the example of fathers’ loving respect for mothers. The value our culture places on women has been steadily declining since the 1950’s especially at the lower end of the socio-economic scale. Kumar is also in favor of defining marriage as between one man and one woman and is for the rigorous enforcement of anti-polygamy laws. He was shocked to learn of the widespread practice of polygamy among Muslim immigrants in America.

  My mother was a house-wife with very little formal education,” says Kumar, “however, she was a strong and determined woman. My father was a very learned man in both traditional Hindu thought as well as in western philosophical thought. At home, we were very conservative but outside the house we are very secular. At an early age, that is, during my teens, I was very much influenced by what I considered to be progressive, leftist and liberal schools of thought.

  ”A major issue for Kumar is the revival of America’s melting pot standard of integration. Coming from the ultimate multicultural society in India, where many languages are spoken, Kumar sees this as detrimental to cultural cohesion and societal health. He calls for English to be instituted as the official language of the United States and for full assimilation to again be the ultimate goal of immigrants. He is also a strong opponent of illegal immigration and worries about the depression of wages for America’s poor. But more importantly, he worries about preserving American culture and national identity.