Maybe some gentle Rajan Zed influences shaped this piece?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Aadisht Khanna
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Supriya Nair <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > I want to know how many advocates of cremation, vegetarianism and so on
> > explicitly stated or were aware of its implications of Hinduism (for the
> > value of Hinduism assumed by the writer). Surely (electronic) cremation
> is
> > gaining popularity because it's less of a bother on several levels than
> > burial? And vegetarianism - which is so dubiously a 'Hindu' requirement,
> > anyway - is being pushed by activism and/or the health foods industry?
> You
> > can't attribute these to any religious sentiments.
> >
>
> Ah yes, was trying to find words for this. The article seems to run on
>
> : Hindus are vegetarian, believe in reincarnation, cremate themselves, etc
> : Americans are becoming vegetarian, start believing in reincarnation,
> cremate themselves, etc
> : Therefore, Americans are Hindu
>
> It's a neat trick. Perhaps a magazine writer here can take it up to show
> that the rice growing in Punjab is evidence of Tamizh or Bengali
> colonisation of the Indus plain.
>
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> Aadisht Khanna
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