How is this racism?
Umesh
PS: I think they would not have allowed any Hindu also if she said she was
not one :-)
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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