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...That prompted rival TV stations to acquire their own Indian serials, lured by their low cost and addictive appeal, and soon the impact of Bollywood was so ubiquitous that Afghan children were seen reenacting Hindu marriage rituals and prayers, while teenagers have taken to touching their elders' feet in a very non-Afghan sign of respect...
...council’s publicity chair. “I didn’t realize how aware Harvard students are of other faiths.”Zearott herself answered one such obscure question, when the moderator asked for “the name of the first Hindu sage to come to America in 1893 for the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.” Zearott correctly answered Swami Vivekananda, a fact that she said she learned in a course at Harvard. She attributes much of her knowledge of religions to Harvard classes...
Some of the real-life tragedies I have witnessed over the years echo Shakespeare. Bharti, a young Hindu, used to take refuge in our house in Kampala to escape her oppressive father; he tried to force her into a marriage and she killed herself. My chemistry teacher, also a Hindu, fell in love with a Muslim woman; her family whisked her off to Pakistan and he swallowed acid in the school laboratory, dying for love. A distant relative in Tanzania was charged with hiring killers to murder her oldest son, his wife and their babies because her husband threatened...
...Indonesia is an anthropologist's fantasyland. It is made up of 17,500 islands, on which 230 million people speak more than 300 languages. The archipelago's culture is colored by Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Dutch traditions. Indonesia "sucks a lot of us in," says fellow anthropologist and friend Alice Dewey. "It's delightful...
...seats in the 552-member lower house - a real possibility given that Uttar Pradesh's 110 million voters elect 80 of those members - she would be well placed to decide which of India's two big parties, the Indian National Congress and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, should lead a new government, or perhaps even wangle the premiership for herself...