The Dreaded “H-Word,” by Anish Shah
Sunday, April 1st, 2007I’ll start with a conversation I had a couple of years ago while on holiday in California. While there, I went to a charity cultural show type thing organized by the local Hindu community and after the main event there was a dinner and a collection of stalls for various organizations to showcase their work, raise funds and get new members. There was one which caught my attention because it had a group of three people dressed up in white gowns and tilaks on their heads which gave them the look of holy people who might have just walked out of a mandir on the banks of the Ganga. More surprising to me was that two of the people were actually white Americans and so to me looked even more out of place at this gathering. The third was an American born Indian guy and it was with him that I started talking. Read the rest of this entry »