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  • They multiply faster than Hindus.†   (source)
  • "Next year, assuming my lungs hold out, we'll study Taoism, Hinduism, and Judaism together—" The Old Man coughed and then started to laugh, which caused him to cough again.†   (source)
  • A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a discarded dress shirt of my father's, washed nearly transparent and so big that it billowed on him like some item of Arab or Hindu costume.†   (source)
  • The Hindu Old Families kept them around for religious reasons, but all I knew at the time was that here was a man in rags, ribs showing, holding out a wicker basket with an ancient credit diskey in it, begging for a touch of my universal card.†   (source)
  • Two Hindu meals, please.†   (source)
  • Ginsberg, who never met a religion he didn't like (he sometimes described himself as a "Buddhist Jew"), employs material from Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and virtually every world faith.†   (source)
  • Both of the two great Oriental religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, are Indo-European in origin.†   (source)
  • They're all over the world, in their different forms—Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni.†   (source)
  • And it's probably worth remembering that no nation, not the Turks, the Tatars, the Persians, the Arabs, the Hindus, or the Brits has ever completely conquered EJaluchistan.†   (source)
  • The so-called Ancient Teachings — including those preserved by the Zensunni Wanderers from the first, second, and third Islamic movements; the Navachristianity of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found all through the universe in little pockets of insulated pyons, and finally, the Butlerian Jihad.†   (source)
  • Six hundred million Hindus stay home from work if the signs are not favorable that morning.†   (source)
  • In the Hindu Kush mountains, the helicopters hugged the terrain, flying low and fast along a steep ridgeline.†   (source)
  • In a town where police officers, government officials, Hindu priests, and respectable middle-class citizens all averted their eyes from forced prostitution, the only audible voice of conscience belonged to an eleven-year-old boy who was battered each time he spoke up.†   (source)
  • One of the Indian barbers doubled as a pujari and arranged cremations for Hindus who died in Addis Ababa.†   (source)
  • When the bodies were finally collected, they were burned in tall pyres like Hindus on the Ganges.†   (source)
  • I heard high Javanese bells deepen in midring to Indian bells, Hindu Indian, American Indian.†   (source)
  • M ICHAEL Dr. Vijay Choudhary's office was filled with statues of Ganesha, the Hindu deity with a potbellied human body and an elephant's head.†   (source)
  • We used to go everywhere together, my mother and I—visiting ancient temples, exploring local customs, watching Hindu festivals, staying up late to see the streets bloom with candlelight.†   (source)
  • A swarthy, bearded man with glistening, dark skin stepped off the gangplank and put his hands together, inclining his head in the Hindu fashion.†   (source)
  • On three occasions I accompanied Mortenson to northern Pakistan, flying to the most remote valleys of the Karakoram Himalaya and the Hindu Kush on helicopters that should have been hanging from the rafters of museums.†   (source)
  • Good Hindu women fast all day to show their devotion to their husbands.†   (source)
  • During this span of ten years he lived in India for a long time studying Oriental philosophy at Benares Hindu University.†   (source)
  • I discovered the detailsfrom Kathy, who had been given the information from a visiting Hindu priest: Brandfort is about two hundred fifty miles southwest of Johannesburg, just north of Bloemfontein, in the Free State.†   (source)
  • Do you know how much a Hindu housewife pays for a kilo of flour made from your wheat?†   (source)
  • Lourdes eats, eats, eats, like a Hindu goddess with eight arms, eats, eats, eats, as if famine were imminent.†   (source)
  • Located in the lower Hindu Kush, the mountains and narrow valleys with steep sides serve as formidable natural obstacles.†   (source)
  • But the unstated purpose of each and every one was to outwit death, and trustworthy Hindus who had come to Italy grew rich.†   (source)
  • A chunk of stone with Egyptian hieroglyphs lay on a pedestal in a corner of the office-the statue of a Hindu goddess with six spider arms stood in a niche-and a huge graph of bewildering mathematical detail, like the sales chart of a mail-order house, hung on the wall.†   (source)
  • The group I ate lunch with included a Jew, a Mormon, a Hindu, a Catholic, and a Lutheran.†   (source)
  • I follow the strolling Saturday families of brightly wrapped Hindus and then the blackclad Hasidim, and step into all the old churches that were once German and then Korean and are now Vietnamese.†   (source)
  • For the wedding ceremony she had two marriage chairs decorated in a Hindu style and laughed all through the ceremony.†   (source)
  • Something happens in some absolutely nonphysical part of the heart—where the Hindus say that Atman resides, if you ever took any Religion—and you see God, that's all.†   (source)
  • The early Hindus believed in living life to the fullest.†   (source)
  • A Hindu, a Buddhist and a lion-tamer chanced to meet, in a circus on the Indo-Chinese border.†   (source)
  • I've seen many migrant crop-picking people about the country: Hindus, Filipinos, Mexicans, Okies away from their states.†   (source)
  • He knows that, if the gods were no longer present to enforce Hinduism as they do, then he would gain converts.†   (source)
  • He knew a man's character by becoming it, like the flagae who lurk in the mirrors of the Hindu.†   (source)
  • We were distinct from the Arabs and other Muslims of the coast; in our customs and attitudes we were closer to the Hindus of northwestern India, from which we had originally come.†   (source)
  • Too cheap, bewilderingly massed together, the summerlike, winterlike, springlike flowers tied up in bunches made him glance disparately at the old man marking down the price on a jug of tulips, and at three turbaned Hindus who bought nothing but in calm turn smelled the bouquets until they stood there' with all their six eyes closed, translated into still another world.†   (source)
  • He had been marveling at the soft brown peaks of the tightly packed Hindu Kush far beneath.†   (source)
  • Even today, Hinduism and Buddhism are strongly imbued with philosophical reflection.†   (source)
  • At least one of them would because she was half-Hindu.†   (source)
  • There is an hour-long watered-down Hindu ceremony on a platform covered with sheets.†   (source)
  • The shattering din high in the Hindu Kush died away.†   (source)
  • However, Masons were also Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and those who had no name for their God.†   (source)
  • The gods of Hinduism face their fair share of thieves, bullies, kidnappers and usurpers.†   (source)
  • Millions of Muslims crossed from India, and Hindus traveled in the other direction.†   (source)
  • The guests were mostly tall, pleasant-looking Jat Hindu unmarried men.†   (source)
  • If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush hour.†   (source)
  • Stealth, we were told, must be our watchword on the high, quiet slopes of the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • "I tell you, these Hindus," Baby Kochamma said piously.†   (source)
  • The sacred Hindu Vendantic scriptures known as the Upanishads.†   (source)
  • Don't you Hindus keep revisiting the world?†   (source)
  • It seemed to me that before Pakistan there was endless fighting between Hindus and Muslims.†   (source)
  • Any Hindu god can do a hundred times better.†   (source)
  • This very beautiful corner of the Hindu Kush was where he belonged.†   (source)
  • Worse still, they were Half-Hindu Hybrids whom no self-respecting Syrian Christian would ever marry.†   (source)
  • Many of them had Hindu mothers and Hindu concubines who taught them to kill Sikhs.†   (source)
  • It was obviously bad and barren way up there in the Hindu Kush, around ten thousand feet.†   (source)
  • He was studying Hindu scriptures, in order to be able to denounce them intelligently.†   (source)
  • A devout Hindu, all right, I can understand.†   (source)
  • He said, in that sharp laughing way of his, "Sukkhi, there's no Hindu state!†   (source)
  • This, in a holy nutshell, is Hinduism, and I have been a Hindu all my life.†   (source)
  • Guess there was a heavy shortage of water bottles in the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • Whereas the Hindu mind had to make more complex adjustments.†   (source)
  • If they were cruel to Sikhs, it's because of Hindu influence on them.†   (source)
  • Pakistanis were Hindus who saw the light of the true God and converted.†   (source)
  • Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls.†   (source)
  • But he can't be a Hindu, a Christian and a Muslim.†   (source)
  • And "Hindus are bent on genocide of the Sikh nation.†   (source)
  • I was fourteen years old—and a well-content Hindu on a holiday—when I met Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • The universe makes sense to me through Hindu eyes.†   (source)
  • They didn't know that I was a practising Hindu, Christian and Muslim.†   (source)
  • A Hindu wedding with Canada prominently on the edges.†   (source)
  • Why can't I be a Hindu, a Christian and a Muslim?†   (source)
  • Piscine was born a Hindu, lives a Hindu and will die a Hindu!†   (source)
  • I first heard of the tremendous, cosmic might of loving kindness in this Hindu land.†   (source)
  • There are many Hindu boys there who aren't Christians.†   (source)
  • Off we went on this Hindu rite of passage, Mother carrying me, Auntie propelling her.†   (source)
  • I don't know where Clyde Tammany got his name; I'd take him for a Hindu.†   (source)
  • "I'm a staunch Hindu," she says, "though the way of Christ inspires me.†   (source)
  • Ringed by the snowy peaks of the Hindu Kush, Baharak was the gateway to the Wakhan.†   (source)
  • Can the dharma of the Hindus and the "virtue" of the ancient Greeks be identical?†   (source)
  • Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale—below cost at fat profit.†   (source)
  • Dr. Ghosh liked to say that the hospital had as many forms as a Hindu god.†   (source)
  • The sharp Hindu Kush peaks to the west were topped with snow.†   (source)
  • They couldn't have been more disappointed had she become a Muslim or a Hindu.†   (source)
  • I was clerking in a Hindu shop, eating money, no more, when I saw this ad in the Hong Kong Gong.†   (source)
  • Several people came and went —among them elderly Hindu woman in sari, on arm of Stuart LaJoie.†   (source)
  • And why name the child of a nun and an Englishman after a Hindu god?†   (source)
  • A Hindu journalist looked thoughtful, started to write.†   (source)
  • He was a Hindu; I said to him, "Do you speak English?"†   (source)
  • Lots of section hands went back and forth, Mexicans, some Hindus.†   (source)
  • I might have chosen one called Islam, only I know too well how it mixes with Hinduism.†   (source)
  • No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh.†   (source)
  • Beyond the village, beyond the river and the streams, Laila saw foothills, bare and dusty brown, and, beyond those, as beyond everything else in Afghanistan, the snowcapped Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • That dog is a right Hindu, so she is, and that's where I found her mother wandering around Bangalore.†   (source)
  • Similarly, if you undertake to read literature from an Islamic or a Buddhist or a Hindu culture, you're going to need knowledge of other religious traditions.†   (source)
  • So is Greek philosophy, and we can see a number of clear parallels between Hinduism and Buddhism on the one hand and Greek philosophy on the other.†   (source)
  • They tease Sonia, telling Ben about the year she had refused her gifts after taking a Hinduism class in college, coming home and protesting that they weren't Christian.†   (source)
  • They love the romance films and they have a great time crying their eyes out when there's an unhappy ending or a handsome lover goes away to be shot by Hindus and other non-Catholics.†   (source)
  • In Eastern mysticism—that is, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religion—it is more usual to emphasize that the mystic experiences a total fusion with God or the "cosmic spirit."†   (source)
  • Gerald asks questions about the recent rise of Hindu fundamentalism, a topic Gogol knows little about.†   (source)
  • My own grandfather narrowly escaped death in the riots when his train was attacked by Hindus on his way home from Delhi, where he had been studying.†   (source)
  • For Christians, the Word was the Bible, for Muslims the Koran, for Jews the Torah, for Hindus the Vedas, and on and on it went.†   (source)
  • This concept is also represented by the Ajna chakra and the dot on a Hindu's forehead, which—" Katherine stopped short, looking sheepish.†   (source)
  • Our founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah wanted the rights of Muslims in India to be recognized, but the majority of people in India were Hindu.†   (source)
  • He had agreed to a Hindu wedding, and so she and her mother had gone shopping in Gariahat and New Market, selected a dozen saris, gold jewelry in red cases with purple velvet linings, a dhoti and a topor for Graham that her mother carried by hand on the plane ride back.†   (source)
  • Not infrequently we find in Hinduism and Buddhism an emphasis on the fact that the deity is present in all things (pantheism) and that man can become one with God through religious insight.†   (source)
  • We lived in the shadow of the Hindu Kush mountains, where the men went to shoot ibex and golden cockerels.†   (source)
  • Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date.†   (source)
  • Swami Vivekenanda, an Indian who was instrumental in bringing Hinduism to the west, once said, "Just as certain world religions say that people who do not believe in a personal God outside themselves are atheists, we say that a person who does not believe in himself is an atheist.†   (source)
  • And I guess it works fine up in the Hindu Kush, but it might not go over too well in downtown Houston.†   (source)
  • It is filled with history's great philosophies and religions ....Egyptian, Pythagorean, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Judeo-Christian, and on and on ....all flowing upward, merging together, funneling themselves up through the transformative gateway of the pyramid ....where they finally fuse into a single, unified human philosophy.†   (source)
  • Plato's ideal state is not unlike the old Hindu caste system, in which each and every person has his or her particular function for the good of the whole.†   (source)
  • If Christians, Hindus or Jews are really our enemies, as so many say, why are we Muslims fighting with each other?†   (source)
  • She snatched away his begging bowl, pedicured his horny Hindu soles and gave him back his comfortable sandals.†   (source)
  • Even before Plato's time the Hindu caste system had the same tripartite division between the auxiliary caste (or priest caste), the arrior caste, and the laborer caste.†   (source)
  • His years of contemplation of Hindu scriptures had led initially to theological curiosity, but eventually to a change of faith.†   (source)
  • Our history textbooks were rewritten to describe Pakistan as a "fortress of Islam," which made it seem as if we had existed far longer than since 1947, and denounced Hindus and Jews.†   (source)
  • Thunder rolled across the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • Sorry, forget all that, I meant mountain falling, the Grand Prix Hindu Crash, awarded unanimously to Sherpa Marcus the Unsteady.†   (source)
  • A busload of Hindus on their way to a shrine to Lord Ganpati was hijacked and all males shot dead at point-blank range.†   (source)
  • In the process of trying to wash out Ammu's forbidden kohl, they had smudged it all over their eyes, and on the whole looked like three raccoons trying to pass off as Hindu ladies.†   (source)
  • Caste Hindus and Caste Christians.†   (source)
  • The far side of the canyon remained silent as the sun disappeared behind the high western peaks of the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • He was a city boy from Amritsar, the city of the Sikhs' Golden Temple, which meant he'd seen more Hindu-Sikh clashes than we had in our little village.†   (source)
  • It was an all-encompassing, shattering, deafening din, thundering rather than echoing, between the high peaks of the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • I started listening to the All-India Radio English-language newscast again, the first time since Pitaji died, and borrowing Vimla's father's copy of The Hindu.†   (source)
  • He was a man hugely revered in the Hindu Kush, because this is a culture that does not worship youth and cheap television celebrity.†   (source)
  • In school we Hindu girls had thought of Masterji as a religious man, a pious Sikh, but very noncommunal, until pamphlets accusing him of being a bad Sikh—of smoking, for instance—started showing up in classrooms.†   (source)
  • There were thirty-two Indian families in our building of fifty apartments, so specialized as to language, religion, caste, and profession that we did not need to fraternize with anyone but other educated Punjabi-speaking Hindu Jats.†   (source)
  • He went past the window like a rocket, running hard up the gradient, possibly going for the Hindu Kusli all-comers 100-meters record.†   (source)
  • They both died in the helicopter and were laid to rest shoulder to shoulder in Arlington, as they had died in the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • He biked all the way to our adobe compound one Sunday morning, his white beard rolled spiffily tight and his long hair tucked under a crisp chartreuse turban, to confront my father, the Lahori Hindu gentleman.†   (source)
  • Sikh nationalists had gotten out of hand ...The Khalsa Lions were making bombs ...Kalashnikov —and Uzi-armed terrorists on mopeds were picking off the moderates, the police, innocent Hindus ...Vancouver Singh's farm was a safehouse for drug pushers and gunmen ...Punjab would explode in months, maybe even days ...Hindus would be smart to get out while they could ...The whole country was a bloody mess ...In the sooty ocher light of clay lamps, impassioned men brought me the outside world of fatal hates.†   (source)
  • And it occurred to me that any one of them, on any given day, would have done all the same things I had done in my last combat mission in the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • Is that Jane in Hindu?†   (source)
  • Photo by DCl Photography, Randx Adger Petty Officer First Class Jeff Taylor from Virginia Beach was another mighty Navy SEAL who answered our desperate call for help on the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • However, we stayed on the left-hand, Afghanistan side of the border, I think, and continued on above the high western slopes of the great range of the Hindu Kush mountains.†   (source)
  • I doubt any editor of any media outfit would get a reception like the SEALs earned, even though these combat troops had achieved their highest moments in the enforced privacy of the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • I owe to Hinduism the original landscape of my religious imagination, those towns and rivers, battlefields and forests, holy mountains and deep seas where gods, saints, villains and ordinary people rub shoulders, and, in doing so, define who and why we are.†   (source)
  • I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine.†   (source)
  • We'd traveled a long way together, and I probably deserved some kind of an award for mountain climbing, maybe the Grand Prix Hindu Kush presented to Sherpa Marcus.†   (source)
  • And we knew where we were going: right up there to the high peaks of the Hindu Kush, those same mountains where bin Laden might still be and where his new bands of disciples were still hiding.†   (source)
  • A Hindu upbringing and a Baptist education had precisely cancelled each other out as far as religion was concerned and had left her serenely impious.†   (source)
  • Courtesy of Erin Taylor This army helicopter and crew landed in the opium field below the village and finally lifted me out of the Hindu Kush mountains.†   (source)
  • Listen, my darling, if you're going to be religious, you must be either a Hindu, a Christian or a Muslim.†   (source)
  • That's really what everyone wants to do, direct action, but it can't be done without the deadly business we conduct up there in those lonely peaks of the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • Hindus and Christians are idolaters.†   (source)
  • I'd never heard of a Hindu god dying.†   (source)
  • I checked my rifle, which had about twenty rounds left in the magazine, with a full magazine remaining in the harness I still wore across my chest, Then I stepped out of my redoubt, into the absolute pitch black and deathly silence of the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • I feel at home in a Hindu temple.†   (source)
  • And we realized the importance of our coming missions, to halt the ever-burgeoning influx of Taliban recruits streaming in over the high peaks of the Hindu Kush and to capture their leaders for interrogation.†   (source)
  • The hill on the right, across the river from the hotel, had a Hindu temple high on its side; the hill in the middle, further away, held up a mosque; while the hill on the left was crowned with a Christian church.†   (source)
  • But now I shall recount, to the best of my gathered knowledge, what happened elsewhere on that saddest of afternoons, that most shocking massacre high in the Hindu Kush, the worst disaster ever to befall the SEALs in any conflict in our more than forty-year history.†   (source)
  • In between the goddesses is a stone Shivayoni linga, which looks like half an avocado with a phallic stump rising from its centre, a Hindu symbol representing the male and female energies of the universe.†   (source)
  • And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • The seven-hour journey from Bahrain seemed endless, and we were still an hour or more south of Kabul, crawling north high above the treacherous border that leads directly to the old Khyber Pass and then to the colossal peaks and canyons of the northern Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • Putting aside the fact that I am a Hindu and we Hindus consider cows sacred, eating a leather boot conjures to my mind eating all the filth that a foot might exude in addition to all the filth it might step in while shod.†   (source)
  • Putting aside the fact that I am a Hindu and we Hindus consider cows sacred, eating a leather boot conjures to my mind eating all the filth that a foot might exude in addition to all the filth it might step in while shod.†   (source)
  • Those mountains up in the northeast, the western end of the mighty range of the Hindu Kush, were the very same mountains where the Taliban had sheltered the lunatics of al Qaeda, shielded the crazed followers of Osama bin Laden while they plotted the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11.†   (source)
  • It seems orange—such a nice Hindu colour—is the colour of survival because the whole inside of the boat and the tarpaulin and the life jackets and the lifebuoy and the oars and most every other significant object aboard was orange.†   (source)
  • When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.†   (source)
  • I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of flowers and pieces of broken coconut, because of the clanging of bells to announce one's arrival to God, because of the whine of the reedy nadaswaram and the beating of drums, because of the patter of bare feet against stone floors dow†   (source)
  • He's a good Hindu boy.†   (source)
  • Here too I am a Hindu.†   (source)
  • Could just as easily be Oppenheimer and Teller, their bodies greased with suntan oil as they quote Hindu scriptures to each other.†   (source)
  • How could they ask Hindu and Moslem soldiers to bite cartridges greased with pig and cow fat when such a thing is abhorrent to their religious beliefs?†   (source)
  • THE NEXT morning, the stork-like nurse, the Hindu, came to take Alessandro's temperature, change the dressings, and deliver breakfast.†   (source)
  • When a baby's getting water poured over his head at a christening he can't say, 'Hey man, I'd rather be a Hindu,' can he?†   (source)
  • You, who claim that you long to rise above the crude concerns of the body, above the drudgery of serving mere physical needs-who is enslaved by physical needs: the Hindu who labors from sunrise to sunset at the shafts of a hand-plow for a bowl of rice, or the American who is driving a tractor?†   (source)
  • Go to the desert or tundra and wait for the visionary flash of light, the critical mass that will call down the Hindu heavens, Kali and Shiva and all the grimacing lesser gods.†   (source)
  • Hinduism has similar problems, not to mention vicious burnings of brides by their new families, but Hindu women in India are more autonomous and more likely to be educated than their Muslim women neighbors.†   (source)
  • He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.†   (source)
  • WHEN ADAM BROWN WOKE UP on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan—but he was ready.†   (source)
  • Buddhists and Hindus believe organ donation is a matter of individual conscience, and they put high value on acts of compassion.†   (source)
  • Many people had never heard these words spoken before an audience—by a guy in a Hindu tunic yet—and there was an odd turn of truth, a sense of unleashing perhaps, or disembarrassment.†   (source)
  • "What really humbled me was how the response came from all sorts of people, from church groups, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • He thought that perhaps this was her way of breathing, or that she had emphysema or belonged to a Hindu cult.†   (source)
  • He stuck the rubber in his pocket, absently—he was wearing the same Nehru jacket he'd sported in San Francisco, his Hindu statesman number, and the thing was rutted and crushed by now, resembling some wadded discard plucked from the gutter.†   (source)
  • Already, as Mortenson prepared to leave for Afghanistan, more than forty CAI schools were tucked into the high valleys of the Karakoram and Hindu Kush, where they were thriving.†   (source)
  • He also wouldn't have believed that two kids from Hot Springs, Arkansas, would randomly end up at the same remote outpost in the Hindu Kush mountains at Christmastime.†   (source)
  • Hinduism has similar problems, not to mention vicious burnings of brides by their new families, but Hindu women in India are more autonomous and more likely to be educated than their Muslim women neighbors.†   (source)
  • Are you a Hindu?†   (source)
  • The Vedanta of the Hindus, the Way of the Taoists, even the Buddha had been described as an absolute monism similar to Hegel's philosophy.†   (source)
  • The Portuguese clawed out a colonial seat in Goa, torturing the Hindu population into Catholic converts.†   (source)
  • Zero, originally a Hindu number, was introduced to the West by the Arabs during the Middle Ages and was unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.†   (source)
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