Economists spoke derisively of a Hindu rate of growth.

So a Hindu perspective on the Halappanavar case would dictate saving the mother s life if the fetus were endangering it.

Noting with deep concern Indian statements in December 2000 on the destruction of the Hindu temple at the of the Babri Mosque

For decades, India suffered from what some called the Hindu rate of economic growth of a little over 1 per year.

There is something particularly special about the sadhu and his cell phone, because it is in communications that India s transformation in recent years has been most dramatic.

Others are also historically marginalized from the social and political life of the nation, notably the Dalits, sometimes known as untouchables, who are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.

As for the threat from the right, anyone hoping for peace in the region and reduced tensions within India between religious communities is relieved by the defeat of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

And the last slide I want to show you is from I was again, this swami that I studied with for so many years, and I did a combined oncology and cardiology Grand Rounds at the University of Virginia medical school a couple of years ago.

This is quite a turnabout for an economy that for years had crept along at what was derisively called the Hindu rate of growth around 3 while much of the rest of Asia shot ahead.

By coincidence, he was in Britain at the same time as a man who would become a great political rival of his, Mohandas Gandhi, a Hindu lawyer who had become well known for advocating satyagraha , non violent non cooperation, while in South Africa.

In particular, the draft constitution of the association stated that the new body aspired to making the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, which is only one of many branches of Vishnu Hinduism, the only religious organization representing Vishnuism in Belarus.

But Obama who had displayed a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi in his Senate office, carried a locket of the Hindu god Hanuman, and spoke often of his desire to build a close strategic partnership with India struck the right symbolic chords in New Delhi and won over the fractious parliament.

The galloping chauvinism has known no bounds. Modi himself made the embarrassing declaration in a speech at a new hospital, no less that the figure of the Hindu god Ganesh, with its elephant s head on a human body, attested to the ancient Hindus knowledge of plastic surgery.