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...dead were being gathered and the living were trying to catch their breath at last and the President called for a national day of prayer, help poured in from all sides-offers of rides, housing, food, job counseling, baby clothes, tents, from as far away as Australia. Hindus worked with Baptists working with Methodists alongside Muslims, and perhaps out of a common effort comes some new understanding as well...
...mullahs overrun the valley, women are ordered to wear the veil and Muslims are separated from Hindus. This Islamic brutality is reciprocated by the Indian army, which destroys villages suspected of harboring terrorists. The mullahs and the army take turns in grinding paradise into hell, and Rushdie chronicles their misdeeds with mounting anger. As he recalls the violence that forced the Hindus out of the Kashmir valley in the 1990s, words gush out of him in a reflux of rage: "... and the pandits of Kashmir were left to rot in their slum camps, to rot while the army and insurgency...
...that its rising international status will somehow compensate for a past often perceived as one long succession of invasions and defeats by foreign powers. Perhaps there is also a cultural factor in this striking neglect of the past: as one conservationist recently told me, "You must understand that we Hindus burn our dead." Whatever the reasons, future generations will look back at New Delhi's conservation failures with deep sadness at all that has been lost...
...India and Pakistan are to make peace, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh noted a few days ago, people have to want it. An attack by six suspected Muslim militants on a contested religious site at Ayodhya in northern India triggered protests last week, as Hindus marched in New Delhi shouting "Down, down Pakistan!" and forced roads and shops to close across the country. Police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators and arrested some 3,000 people. "I have always maintained that we need to carry public opinion to make a success of the peace process," Singh warned as he appealed...
...billion Damages specified in a class action brought against a California-based microbrewery on behalf of the world's Hindus, for featuring an image of the god Ganesh holding a beer on one of its labels...