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...FIGHT? The island's two main ethnic groups are the majority Sinhalese (who number 14 million, are Buddhist, and live mainly in the south) and the Tamils (who number 2 million, are Hindu, and are concentrated in the north and east). The roots of discord go back to colonial times. The British favored the Tamils in the civil service in what Neil DeVotta, author of Blowback, a book about the origins of the conflict, says was "classic divide and rule." After independence in 1948, the Sinhalese took revenge. They made Sinhala the official language, discriminated against Tamils in areas like...
...exam on Friday, so I had to go to yoga Thursday,” says Anna Reinert ’08, who has faithfully gone to Pacelli’s class since freshman year and describes him to friends as “a Hindu Billy Crystal.”Pacelli, who has been teaching yoga for more than 25 years, has developed a large following at the MAC for his patient teaching style and spiritual approach to yoga and life. And it doesn’t hurt that he remembers every single one of his students’ names.Jack...
...Indonesian province of Central Java is charged with mysticism: animist spirits, Hindu gods, Sufi saints. One of the most sacred sites is a magnificent 3,000-m peak called Merapi, which literally means "fire mountain." For centuries villagers living on its slopes and base have pledged their fate to Merapi, not just because it's an active volcano but because it provides fertile soil for them to grow food and raise cattle, and sand and stone for them to build their homes. Every year they bring Merapi gifts of food, tobacco and clothing, both to appease it and to seek...
...Williamson said. “In groups, people are in their own comfort zones,” said Alison E. Cohen ’07, suggesting that a similar mentality was at play in the recent racial incident on campus where an undergraduate was reportedly assaulted following a Hindu dance event. The event was hosted by OSAPR, the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), and the Winthrop House Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment (SASH) advisers...
...Seneca’s Women’s Outreach Committee, said, “We wanted to provide an open forum on women and sexuality, and how faith works in that aspect of women’s lives.” Women from a variety of backgrounds, including Hindu, Jewish, and Catholic, as well as the non-religious voiced their opinions. The discussion opened with the question of how one’s faith informs a personal sexuality. Responses ranged from those who said their faith is entirely responsible for the decisions they make about sex to those who said...