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“Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.”
“What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is all one way, from the woman to the man. And when society stacks up ...”
“Truth is elusive, subtle, manysided. You know, Priscilla, theres an old Hindu story about Truth. It seems a brash young warrior sought the hand of a beautiful princess. Her father, the king, though...”
“How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they leave me cold. I think of prayer as something intensely personal, a way of reaching my hands out...”
“Mahatma Gandhi was as devout a Rambhakt as you can get he died from a Hindu assassins bullet with the words H Ram on his lips but he always said that for him, Ram and Rahim were the same deity, a...”
“Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find it immensely congenial to be able to face my fellow human beings of o...”
“Hindu fundamentalism, because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no compulsory beliefs or rites of worship, no single sacred book. The name itself denotes something l...”
“An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian s...”
“And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isnt another outfit in the world that balances better the twin feminine urges to conceal and reveal. It outlines the wom...”
“minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being here on sufferance. I refuse to let others define me that way. I tell my fellow ...”
