Word: secularizing
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...Ayodhya is at the epicent of communal hostility stoked by Hindu nationalists in defiance of modern India's founding tradition of secular tolerance. In 1992, the city became the focus of the worst communal violence since India's partition 45 years earlier, when 2,000 people died in clashes after Hindu nationalists - including members of what is now the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - tore down the 16th century Babri mosque. Hindus claim the mosque had originally been built on the site of a temple marking the birthplace of the Hindu deity Lord Rama. Ever since then, the Hindu nationalist...
That Orwell--he was so 1984. Today, when Youth is a secular religion and a huge industry, you can choose your favorite age and, with the help of wonder drugs, stay there. So let's join the 21st century and hear it for Botox, which may soon guarantee that at 50 everyone will have the face she, or he, can afford...
Your use of the phrase "mostly Hindu" is unfair to secular and democratic India when you compare it with "mostly Muslim" Pakistan, where Islam is the official religion. India's population is 12% Muslim, giving it nearly as many Muslims as Pakistan. Many Indian Muslims have thrived and excelled in every field. If Kashmir becomes independent, it is sure to invite troublemakers from all over. If there is a chance to hold genuine elections in a quiescent Kashmir, it will be a triumph of democracy, secularism and multiethnic nationalism. VENKATRAJA U. RAO Bombay...
...Anathema to snooty WASPs, Berlin was the anthemist of Christian holy days ("White Christmas," "Easter Parade") and had a lot to do with turning them into secular holidays. The wandering Jew had embraced middle-America in his songs and his life, agreeing that his and Ellin's three daughters should be raised as Protestants. Whatever temptations celebrity and chorines might offer, Berlin was a doting and apparently faithful husband for 62 years; Ellin died in 1988, he a year later. Yet, when their first child Irving Jr., died after only 25 days - on Christmas - some of Ellin's friends supposedly...
...instant nostalgia items, some actual oldies (Les Brown's 1949 version of the 1937 "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"), some that only seemed that way ("White Christmas"). "Annie Get Your Gin" spawned three top-10 songs but no #1's. His last charter was another secular spiritual, "Count Your Blessings" - #5 for Eddie Fisher...