Should India have a Hindu "Law of Return" ?

[LordShiva]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Should India have a Hindu "Law of Return" ?

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Nepal is mostly Buddhist, IIRC.

From the Wikipedia article on Nepal:
According to the 2001 census, Hindus constitute 80.6% of the population. Buddhists make up 10.7%, Muslims 4.2%, Kirant 3.6%, other religions 0.9%.

[Urban Ranger]

Interesting. So why do people go to Nepal to look for Buddhist monks?

[Kuciwalker]

Because there are Buddhist monks in Nepal?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Interesting. So why do people go to Nepal to look for Buddhist monks?

Because Bhuttan and Tibet were too expensive?

[Urban Ranger]

But they could go to Thailand...!

[Jon Miller]

I want to go to Nepal


I also want to go to India

JM

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
I want to go to Nepal
JM

No, you really don't.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Interesting. So why do people go to Nepal to look for Buddhist monks?

Because they're hippies

[molly bloom]

Re: Should India have a Hindu "Law of Return" ?

Originally posted by aneeshm

Should India , the world's only culturally Hindu state , have a similar law ?

Don't Sikhs, animists, Jains, Syriac Christians, Cochin Jews and Parsees (to name but a few) then also have a 'right of return' to India ?


After all, for many of them it's the only homeland they know, India as a single nation having existed only since the 20th Century ?


Oh, and those pesky Indian Muslims too of course, and all those darn Commies and atheists and Anglicans and Roman Catholics and so on.


In any case, what's a 'cultural' Hindu as opposed to a religious 'Hindu' ? Is it like an atheist Jew who doesn't attend synagogue, eats bacon sandwiches, marries a Catholic and supports Arsenal ?

My friend has a painting of Ganesh and I have a batik of Kali and some Ravi Shankar and U. Srinivas and L. Subramaniam recordings. I've also watched 'Pather Panchali', 'Kanchenjunga' and 'Monsoon Wedding'.

Can we be cultural Hindus too ?

[Lorizael]

Re: Re: Should India have a Hindu "Law of Return" ?

Originally posted by molly bloom
Is it like an atheist Jew who doesn't attend synagogue, eats bacon sandwiches, marries a Catholic and supports Arsenal ?

If you take out the Arsenal supporting part, this is spot on for my dad.

[Ecthy]

Even Germany has a law of return hence all the rooskie Spätaussiedler over here.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Same difference.

They are not. One comes with meditation, the other with polytheism

[aneeshm]

Re: Re: Should India have a Hindu "Law of Return" ?

Originally posted by molly bloom


Don't Sikhs, animists, Jains, Syriac Christians, Cochin Jews and Parsees (to name but a few) then also have a 'right of return' to India ?

Sikhs - yes .
Animists - yes .
Jains - yes .
Buddhists - yes .
Cochin Jews - yes .
Parsees - yes ( though India can be only a temporary home - their real home is Persia , which is unfortunately unviable ) .
Syrian Christians - I don't know about them , so I can't comment .

Originally posted by molly bloom

After all, for many of them it's the only homeland they know, India as a single nation having existed only since the 20th Century ?

I do not understand this part of the comment .

Originally posted by molly bloom

Oh, and those pesky Indian Muslims too of course, and all those darn Commies and atheists and Anglicans and Roman Catholics and so on.

Muslims have their home country - Saudi Arabia , or Iran , depending on your theoligical bent . India can have laws relating to asylum giving preference to Ahmediyas , Bohras , Sufis , and other liberal sects which are persecuted by mainstream Muslims .

Originally posted by molly bloom

In any case, what's a 'cultural' Hindu as opposed to a religious 'Hindu' ? Is it like an atheist Jew who doesn't attend synagogue, eats bacon sandwiches, marries a Catholic and supports Arsenal ?

I do not understand this part , either .

Originally posted by molly bloom

My friend has a painting of Ganesh and I have a batik of Kali and some Ravi Shankar and U. Srinivas and L. Subramaniam recordings. I've also watched 'Pather Panchali', 'Kanchenjunga' and 'Monsoon Wedding'.

Can we be cultural Hindus too ?

No - and you know this is a rhetorical and ridiculous question .

[Az]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Even Germany has a law of return hence all the rooskie Spätaussiedler over here.

this is funny on so many levels....

[LordShiva]

Re: Re: Re: Should India have a Hindu "Law of Return" ?

Originally posted by aneeshm
Parsees - yes ( though India can be only a temporary home - their real home is Persia , which is unfortunately unviable )

Wow. I have several Parsee friends. If you walked up to them and told them that India isn't their home, that Persia is their "real" home, you probably wouldn't have any teeth left.

Originally posted by aneeshm
Muslims have their home country - Saudi Arabia , or Iran , depending on your theoligical bent .

Wow. So if you've grown up in a country, if your parents, grand-parents, great-grandparents, etc. etc. have gown up in that country too, yet if you follow a religion followed by the majority of people in another country, that other country, even if you've never been there before or have no ancestors from there, becomes your "home country?" Wow.