Indian hypocrisy is only surpassed by its intelligentsia's ignorance
and apathy.
cm
At 4:30 AM -0800 3/3/07, Lalremlien Neitham wrote:
these things and all unreported/under-reported (?) discriminations
faced on racial issues in india makes the hue and cries over racism
against shilpa shetty/ indians outside countries so ironic.
Malabika Brahma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Food destroyed at Jagannath temple after foreigner's entry
Indo-Asian News Service
Bhubaneshwar, March 2, 2007
In a country where millions go to bed hungry, food worth Rs 1
million, meant for holy offering at Orissa's Jagannath temple was
destroyed on Friday because a foreigner had entered the shrine, an
act seen as defiling the premises.
Priests at the temple in Puri, 56 km from here, also performed
rituals to cleanse the shrine after Paul Rodgier, a 55-year-old
American Christian, visited it on Thursday afternoon.
The priests fined him Rs 209 when he pleaded that he was not aware
of any restriction on the entry of foreigners to the temple. Rodgier
had reportedly come to the government-run National Thermal Power
Corp in Angul district on official work a few days ago.
The shrine administration then decided to destroy the food that was
prepared for offering to the deities, temple official Laxmidhar
Pujapanda told the agency. A mud pit was dug inside the premises and
the holy offering was thrown in it.
The priests, who had stopped all the rituals of the temple since
Thursday afternoon, also performed purification rituals on Friday,
he said. The kitchen areas of the temple were also washed
thoroughly, he added.
Foreigners are not allowed to enter leading Hindu temples in Orissa,
including the Jagannath temple at Puri and the Lingaraj temple here.
An American woman, Pamela K Fleig, who had converted from
Christianity to Hinduism after marrying an Uttar Pradesh resident,
was denied entry into the 11th century Lingaraj temple in
Bhubaneswar in 2005.
Thailand's Crown Princess Sirindhorn was also not given permission
to visit the Jagannath temple the same year because she is a
foreigner and a Buddhist.
Even former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a born Hindu was not
allowed to enter the temple when she was in power because she had
married a Parsi.
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