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...Butcher. No other problem plagues Indira so badly as the agitation for a nationwide ban on cattle slaughter. Revered by Hindus, some 175 million cattle roam the country, competing for India's limited food supply and finally being sent to "convalescent homes" to die. The country's meat-eating Moslems, on the other hand, slaughter some 1,000,000 cattle each year. Nehru had no patience with the wastefulness of the Hindu reverence for cows but never dared to thin out the uneconomic herds. Indira has also been ambivalent about the matter, and the sadhus (Hindu holy...
Indians must have loved the gods: they made so many of them. Shanta Durga is a ten-handed goddess revered by the 400,000 Hindus in the former Portuguese enclave of Goa. Bhaväni is a ten-handed goddess considered to be the source of all power in the neighboring Indian state of Maharashtra. Last week Bhaväni and Shanta Durgá tried to join hands. Carried by Hindu nationalists, images of the two goddesses were paraded through the streets of scores of Goan villages, together with posters proclaiming: "After 450 years, Bhaväni wills...
Behind the purely religious battle lay factors less obvious but no less persuasive. Goan Catholics were fighting to hold on to the preferential status accorded them by the Portuguese and continued by the Indian government after "union." Many Goan Hindus, on the other hand, have relatives in Maharashtra, and most speak a dialect of the Marathi language. But the determining question was whether Goa should cease to exist. In exchange for the territory's own legislature, established three years ago by New Delhi, all the promerger forces could offer were four seats in the Maharashtra state assembly, a pitiful...
...Both Hindus and Buddhists placed great value on the strict discipline of Yoga and they soon recognized that the concentration of the artists was very similar. Those who practice Yoga concentrate on an object until they can overlook the distinction between themselves and the object they are contemplating. Through this concentration a man reputedly achieved a harmony or unity of consciousness...
...both the viewer and the artist are swept into total involvement with the subject matter. The art attempts to stimulate a complete fusion of idenity between the viewer or artist and the subject of the work itself. Hindus believed that all knowledge was directly accessible to the concentrated and "one-pointed" mind without the direct intervention of the senses...