Word: hindus
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...foot-high chariot each July by thousands of devotees. The festival is also the original source of the word “juggeraut.”Unfortunately my visit to Puri fell far wide of this celebration, and since the temple complex at Puri is closed to non-Hindus, I could only gaze within its walls from the roof of a local “private library.” And so I entered one of the more common and less insidious types of little scams to be pulled on tourists in India.For the privilege of ascending to the roof...
...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...
...group is based in Kashmir, the land that India and Pakistan have been clashing over since Partition in 1947. Estimates differ, but somewhere near half a million people may have died in massacres and pogroms in the year following the division of Pakistan and India. Whole communities of Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims were slaughtered, and the streets of Delhi ran with blood, as William Dalrymple writes in his history of the city, “City of Djinns.” In 1984, when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards after ordering a raid on the religion?...
...ultimately comes down from this is that we must move forward as humans,” said Harvard Dharma co-President Ameya A. Velingker ’10, who also read a poem in Hindi during the vigil. “We are first part of humanity, not Muslims, Hindus, Indians, Pakistanis. I think that’s what this highlighted...
...Responsibility for the attacks remains unclear. According to the BJP, this is a clear-cut case: Muslim fanatics from Pakistan attacked India because they hate democracy and Hindus. It’s possible it’s that simple, but the odds are laughably low. Who knows? Much evidence points to Lakshar-e-Taiba, a covert fundamentalist group, but it’s complicated. Questions about the attacks abound: Why were the jihadist assassins were drunk and high on cocaine? Why did they deliberately murder Hemant Karkare, a man who ousted Hindu extremists as the real culprits in previous incidents...