Word: hindus
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Died. Zakir Husain, 72, President of India and first member of his country's minority (10%) Moslem faith to hold such high, though largely ceremonial office; in New Delhi. Amid a tradition of bitter enmity between Hindus and Moslems, the onetime university chancellor's election in 1967 was a significant step toward fulfilling the dream of the late Jawaharlal Nehru that India would become a secular, not a Hindu, state...
White Against Black. Through the centuries, Cochin's Jews have adopted many Indian religious traditions. Mortar for the walls of their synagogue was mixed with coconut water, which Hindus use for sacred occasions. The ceremonial dress of a Cochin Jewish woman is a heavy gold brocade sarong and blouse, worn by Malabar Indian women at weddings. But the Cochin Jews have stoutly preserved their religious Orthodoxy, even though the community so far as it is known has never had a rabbi. (Many isolated Jewish colonies in India get along without rabbis...
They draw on eyewitness accounts of battle from 44 TIME-LIFE correspondents, and have culled memorable pictures from TIME and LIFE files. Some of the reports remain lodged in memory. There is, for example, Photographer David Douglas Duncan's report of how a howling mob of Hindus and Sikhs in Delhi flailed to death a six-year-old Moslem girl carrying her baby brother; TIME Correspondent James Bell's terse account of weary American troops fighting for No Name Ridge in Korea; Photographer Andrew St. George's file on a Castro patrol's foolhardy attempt...
Their practice is an ancient one. Theosophy was taught by the sun-worshiping Egyptians, the oracular Greeks, the fire burners of Zarathustra. To one degree or another, its tenets are alive today among the Brahmans, Buddhists and Hindus of India, not to mention all the world's hippies. In the West, however, theosophical thought had been all but dead since the 7th century, when Moslem armies swept out of Arabia and disrupted communications between Europe and the East. Then, in the 19th century, came Madame Blavatsky...
Kahn has transferred the play's locale to present-day India. On entering the theatre, the audience is greeted by Will Steven Armstrong's lovely exotic setting. High above the stage are two long straight trumpets suggestive of the ceremonial karna of the Hindus or the rag-dung of the Tibetans. Hanging from these are some delicate translucent Indian drops. There are two basic pillars on the mosaic floor, and some potted plants. (Later three bronze fish that light up will be dropped...