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...same holiday shopping sales, the same special offers, attend the same Christmas parties and sing the same carols. And everyone--Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian alike--celebrates together, viewing the festival in a somewhat secular light...
...Anyone surveying the road outside the American consulate in New Delhi in the 1980s would have espied a sea of turbans. The Sikhs were leaving, fleeing a plague of anti-Sikh terrorism in Punjab and the poisonous sentiment that had seeped into other parts of India as well. "Why not join us?" Sikhs who had made it safely to New York and Toronto were asking relatives back home. That question was certainly weighing on Satbir Kang, when at age 21 she first applied for a visa...
Mapping such widening diversity is a goal of Harvard University's Pluralism Project, run by religion professor Diana Eck. Students have located, among other things, seven Buddhist temples in Salt Lake City, two Sikh gurdwaras in Phoenix, Arizona, a Taoist temple in Denver, a Jain center in Blairstown, New Jersey, and five Oklahoma City mosques. The project estimates that nationwide there are 1,139 houses of worship for Muslims, 1,515 for Buddhists and 412 for Hindus...
...book, The Bride has not even one Parsi character. And in Cracking India, I use the perspective of a Parsi child, but Hindu characters, Sikh characters, Muslim characters are pivotal to the story. I would not like to be seen just as a Parsi writer. For example, in The Crow-eaters, the characters are all Parsi. But all my friends in India and Pakistan who are not Parsi say, "Ah, we know who you have written about. You have written about my mother-in-law." So you see I don't think it means anything if a character...
...storm, now and then the possible light from an explosion." One of them is an "English patient," tarred black by burns and lost now in his memories of map-making explorations in the deserts of North Africa. One is a morphine thief named Caravaggio. The third is an Indian Sikh, called Kip, working for the English as a bomb defuser. And the sun around which all these "planetary strangers" turn is a 20-year-old female nurse from Canada...