Julia Roberts: I'm a Hindu Julia Roberts, the Hollywood actress, has disclosed that she is a practising Hindu who goes to temple to “chant and pray and celebrate”.
By Heidi Blake <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/heidi-blake/> Published: 6:14PM BST 05 Aug 2010 Link to this video<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/filmvideo/cinema-trailers/7471719/Eat-Pray-Love-exclusive-preview-trailer.html> The 42-year-old, who married the cameraman Daniel Moder in 2002, said the couple worship at temple together regularly with their three children. She added that she hopes to be reincarnated as “something quiet” after the stresses of celebrity. Related Articles - Julia Roberts film sparks pilgrimage to Italian ice cream shop<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7928317/Julia-Roberts-film-sparks-pilgrimage-to-Italian-ice-cream-shop.html> - Julia Roberts angers Hindus<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6218851/Julia-Roberts-angers-Hindus-as-worshippers-are-banned-from-their-temple.html> - Elderly could still face 'death tax' to pay for care<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7901639/Elderly-could-still-face-death-tax-to-pay-for-care.html> - EU proposes 'black boxes' for buses and taxis<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7901250/EU-proposes-black-boxes-for-buses-and-taxis.html> - Gunman Raoul Moat sent shot ex girlfriend 'get well card'<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7897124/Gunman-Raoul-Moat-sent-shot-ex-girlfriend-get-well-card.html> - Nick Clegg fears expenses reform is being swept under carpet<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6094511/Nick-Clegg-fears-expenses-reform-is-being-swept-under-carpet.html> Roberts, who was born to Baptist and Catholic parents, is thought to have made the religious conversion while shooting her new film, Eat, Pray, Love, in which she plays a woman hoping to find herself through Hindu spirituality. The actress caused *controversy in India last September*<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6218851/Julia-Roberts-angers-Hindus-as-worshippers-are-banned-from-their-temple.html>when local Hindus were barred from celebrating an important religious festival while she shot scenes for the film in their temple on the outskirts of New Delhi. Villagers hoping to mark the beginning of Navratri, nine days of worship of their Goddess Durga, at Ashram Hari Mandir found their temple sealed by Roberts's vast security team of 350 guards, bulletproof cars and a helicopter. The actress disclosed her conversion in an interview with the September issue of Elle magazine, in which she also railed against the use of cosmetic surgery. “It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates," she said. “I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy, and when I'm confounded. Your face tells a story ... and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office." Eat, Pray, Love, the screen adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, will be released in Britain later this year. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * Was life in the *kudds* glamourised? Who said, "It appears that the Goanese (sic) are a roving people, prepared to go to any part of the world for well-paid employment"? How did Goans find their first toehold in the Gulf? Find your answers in Selma Carvalho's *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Buy from Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
