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Are Hindu Attitudes Towards Race Skin-Deep?

It's high time for Hindus to renounce a holdover of the caste system: the belief that fair skin is better than dark skin.

Related Topics: Faiths, Hinduism, Caste, Caste System, Skin, fair skin, dark skin, upper castes, hindus, young Indian woman, attitudes, blazing Indian sun

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Low-Caste Tsunami Victims Denied Aid

In India, low-caste people denied food, water, toilet facilities in relief camps, say humanitarian aid workers.

Related Topics: Faiths, Hinduism, dalit, relief camps, Food, aid workers, toilet facilities, social caste lines, Government, insidious caste ladder, caste divide, CAMP

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The End of Nehru's Dream?

Nehru abhorred Hindu religious revivalism. But his work to secularize India may have laid the groundwork for today's Hindutva.

Related Topics: Faiths, Hinduism, Religion, Nehrus, Indian, Indian state, personal law, religious revivalism, nehru, vested interest, leading Indian politician, Religious

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Gayatri Mania

Recent recordings have catapulted the ancient Hindu mantra into even greater popularity.

Related Topics: Entertainment, Music, Mantra, Prayer, sandhya vandanam, maha mantra, yoga sessions, Yoga, religion professor, Yoga Teachers, Mind, music company worth

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Ask the Swami: Corporate CEOs and the Long Arm of Karma

Plus: Beliefs common to all Hindus, vegetarianism, and how the Puranas made spirituality accessible to the lower classes.

Related Topics: Faiths, Hinduism, Vedas, puranas, meat eating, Meat, vedo tharvangirasa itihas, hindus, nihsvasitam etad yad, large scale animal slaughter, Belief

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Indian Quake Can't Shake Caste System

Hinduism's engrained system controlling social classes has enormously complicated relief efforts in the countryside.

Related Topics: Faiths, Hinduism, Village, Caste, Caste System, social hierarchy, village elders, aid, Relief groups, traditional caste system, Hierarchy, formal caste system

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