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 FAITH LINE | | Parting thoughts |  | | ‘God Love’ is nothing without trying to love our fellow beings. There is really no way past this unpleasant task and it must be faced with fortitude and stick-to-itiveness. Bapu, as usual, understood. “Love humanity in spite of itself,” he said. By Heaven, that old man had spine and salt. He’s worth hanging on to, more than most. 24.10.05 | | |
| | | | | | | • | Salaam Namaste | | | Try asking awkward questions at the macro level about how each faith needs to retune itself to contemporary reality. Orthodox Muslims get angry if you express even the most reasonable query about Islam, while their brothers in Hinduism crow and say, We told you so. 17.10.05 | | | | • | A just-so story | | | Long ago, when life was young and Creation had not quite settled into tired profanities, the people who lived on the Rose-Apple Island, which they called Jambu Dvipa in their language, wondered about existence. 10.10.05 | | | | • | One way traffic? | | | Does Bapu, after nearly six decades of Independence, get to see only this? India has never seemed uglier, yet in paradox, the will of so many people exudes such good energy. Take the first big function of ICCR under its new dispensation, last week. 03.10.05 | | | | • | Pushpa Yajna | | | Puja, that important Indian word, has a truly lovely meaning. It comes from Pushpa Yajna or ‘flower offering’ and its generic meaning evolved as ‘to honour’ or ‘to revere’. 26.09.05 | | | | |
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