Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think...Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviors such as war.... The Gita is a dishonest book .

Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.