My mom was a practicing Hindu, and my dad was a Catholic who practiced yoga meditation and karma yoga. My earliest memories are of the bright colors, beautiful sounds, and fragrant aromas of both Christian and Hindu celebrations.
If there can be Muslim and Christian countries, why can’t there be a Hindu country?
The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India’s sophisticated philosophical traditions.
I don’t believe in differentiating between Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian – we are all one, and Mumbai is for everyone.
I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
I am proud to be the first Hindu American to have been elected to Congress and now the first Hindu American to run for president.
Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation… They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.
I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was exposed to a Church of England school, so I got my Senior Cambridge certificate.
I was born a Hindu, I shall die a Hindu.
Hindu sages say that you should concentrate while eating. But, we don’t have time anymore. Fast food is not quick enough for me. I would like super-fast food in the form of pills.
BJP are opposed to a Muslim boy marrying a Hindu girl. Then how did BJP have an alliance with Mehbooba Mufti or Nitish Kumar or Chandrababu Naidu?
The episode of the ‘shoe bomber,’ Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same.
My husband is as much a proud Muslim as I am a proud Hindu. That’s the beauty of our nation – and our marriage, too.
I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don’t find very much about it. You don’t find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can’t eat that.
I belong to a Punjabi Hindu family.
As an Indian and as a Hindu, I have been taught to see God everywhere right from my childhood.
My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don’t agree with?
Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.
I respect religious rules. I am a true God-fearing Hindu.
He is a Hindu NRI and I am a Christian, so I did a court marriage and had a Catholic wedding. The wedding was intimate with just family members.
I was influenced by my mother to a great extent and I came to know about Hindu mythology from her.
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