On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Supriya Nair <[email protected]>wrote:
> I want to know how many advocates of cremation, vegetarianism and so on > explicitly stated or were aware of its implications of Hinduism (for the > value of Hinduism assumed by the writer). Surely (electronic) cremation is > gaining popularity because it's less of a bother on several levels than > burial? And vegetarianism - which is so dubiously a 'Hindu' requirement, > anyway - is being pushed by activism and/or the health foods industry? You > can't attribute these to any religious sentiments. > Ah yes, was trying to find words for this. The article seems to run on : Hindus are vegetarian, believe in reincarnation, cremate themselves, etc : Americans are becoming vegetarian, start believing in reincarnation, cremate themselves, etc : Therefore, Americans are Hindu It's a neat trick. Perhaps a magazine writer here can take it up to show that the rice growing in Punjab is evidence of Tamizh or Bengali colonisation of the Indus plain. -- Aadisht Khanna Address for mailing lists: [email protected] Personal address: [email protected]
