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...Your cover stories suggest that Muslims, who make up 13.4% of India's population, are underprivileged and that Hindus and Muslims are polarized. In fact, most Indians see themselves as Indian first, not Hindu or Muslims, and Muslims are well represented at the most prominent and influential levels of Indian society. Some of the most popular Bollywood stars are Muslims, including actor Sharukh Khan. Mumbai's Police Commissioner, Hasan Gafoor, is a Muslim. India is and always has been a multi-faith society. The media needs to calm down and stop its wild speculation and its hunger for Pulitzer Prizes...
...mediators, including the U.N. and several previous incumbents of the White House. "The U.S. has been involved since 1947," says Manoj Joshi, who has written two books on the conflict. "They've tried everything." The dispute began when the two countries won independence from Britain in 1947 and the Hindu ruler of Muslim-majority Kashmir chose to join India rather than Pakistan. That decision has never been accepted by Pakistan, and a de facto boundary, the Line of Control, divides Kashmir between them. India and Pakistan have fought two wars and countless skirmishes over the territory. Relations worsened when...
...Zoroastrians remain fiercely divided over whether to recognize interfaith families, let alone accept non-generational Zoroastrians. Tens of thousands fled Persia during the Islamic incursions in the 10th Century and were granted refuge in India under the condition they did not marry outside their faith or proselytize to the Hindu majority. Ramiyar P. Karanjia, principal of a Zoroastrian religious school in Mumbai, India, insists, "Conversion is not part of our religion." Yet, in India, home to the majority of Zoroastrians, the community is declining by about 10% every decennial census, according to a report released by UNESCO. Today, Zoroastrians remain...
...activity, carried out by any person, group or state, in any place, anywhere in the world, in which unarmed civilians and public places are targeted, to be right. We have already condemned the Mumbai attacks." Muhahid said that "India wants to implicate him just to protect its own Hindu extremists...
...copies of The Book of Mormon in several languages. The Harvard College Buddhist Community served rice pudding—said to have been fed to Siddhartha Gautama while fasting in order to reach enlightenment, according to Buddhist Community President Mihiri U. Tillakaratne ’09. Dharma, the Harvard Hindu Students Association, provided samosas, a traditional South Asian appetizer. While the Hindi faith does not have any holidays in December, the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, took place at the end of October. Hillel set up a booth for Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights that begins at sundown...