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ESAC's day-long fast was supposed to show support for serious protesters at Northwestern University who fasted for several weeks to call for an Asian American Studies Program. But the incongruity of Gandhi fasting to shock Hindus and Muslims into ending ethnic slaughter and a dozen college students fasting to get jobs for a few professors should lead many to question what was really happening on the Widener steps...
...SURE YOU CAN DESCRIBE THE Tokyo poison-gas attack as "A New Kind of Evil,'' as you did in your table of contents. Previous press reports attest to the blood-drenched credentials of world religions. Disputes in Iraq, Iran, India, Israel, Croatia and Northern Ireland involving Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Protestants and Catholics are examples of deeply rooted religious fervor. From the Catholic Inquisition to abortion-clinic-doctor killings, history shows again and again where the real lack of "peace and security'' originates...
...only place to experience her firsthand is in her novel Shame, published in India and translated into English. The expanded version of a novella-length work first issued in early 1993, Shame tells the story of the Dutta family -- father Sudhamoy, mother Kironmoyee, son Suranjan and daughter Nilanjana -- Bangladeshi Hindus caught up in a wave of Muslim reprisals shortly after the December 1992 destruction of the Babri mosque by Hindu zealots in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya...
...have issued a warrant for the arrest of Taslima Nasrin, a doctor turned feminist writer who was quoted in a Calcutta newspaper as saying that the Koran should be revised thoroughly. Nasrin, previously threatened by fundamentalists for her controversial book Lajja (Shame), in which she described atrocities on minority Hindus by the majority Muslims, denies making the statement and has gone into hiding...
During a question and answer session, SarvarKhobaib '94 asked Rao about what the studentcalled "human rights violations" in Kashmir,where Muslims and Hindus are fighting overdisputed land...