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...religious minorities. The Ahmadiyya, a tiny Muslim sect that is not recognized by the fundamentalists as being truly Muslim, has had to endure angry mobs surrounding its mosques, defacing the walls and disrupting religious services. The other prime target of the extremists' wrath is the country's large Hindu community, which has been repeatedly subjected to threats, rapes, arson, looting and assaults. Human-rights activists claim there has been little effort made to protect the Hindu community. "In many cases the police simply refuse to register complaints from Hindu victims," says Rabindra Ghosh, an activist with Human Rights Congress...
...been five years since the spirituality-seeking Madonna, dressed in a sari and adorned with a tilaka marking on her forehead, sang a self-composed Sanskrit song at the MTV awards before a backdrop of Hindu god images?simultaneously raising the West's awareness of Hinduism and incurring the ire of the religion's faith police. Things Indian have only gotten trendier since. But as Madonna discovered, cashing in on Hinduism can be a mixed blessing...
...Athens, its star athlete, markswoman Anjali Bhagwat, is peeved that she had to pay for a coach on her own. Such stories puzzle Andrew Krieger, a U.S.-based financial executive, who believes India isn't living up to its potential. He wants to help change that. Krieger, who studied Hindu philosophy, is pouring $120 million into a planned sports facility in the Indian tech hub of Hyderabad, where international coaches will groom future champions in all sports. It will be a replica of IMG Academies, a coaching center in Bradenton, Fla., that has produced the likes of tennis champ Maria...
...Your report on the Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi's victory presented one of the best analyses yet of Indian politics. But I want to make it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not a rightist Hindu party. In the past it had links to Hindu nationalist outfits, but under the constraints of governing coalitions, it has taken a more secular stance. The 2002 Gujarat riots, in which 2,000 Muslims were killed, were indeed a blot, but India remains a tolerant country with a majority of its people supporting secular viewpoints. It has a Muslim President...
...success of the Congress Party resulted from people voting against the economic policies of the then government. Many Indians, however, are bent on portraying the victory as a defeat of Hindu nationalism. Just as Americans are being called enemies of Islam, the majority Hindus of India are said to be intolerant of the minority Muslims, despite much evidence to the contrary. Some in the Congress Party have been exploiting the Muslim vote by spreading the canard of Hindu intolerance. It may sound unbelievable, but apart from a small lunatic fringe, most Hindus raise their voices against discrimination toward Muslims. Rajendra...