of this child and her mode of course is that whoever is guilty i have never seen nationalism in hinduism be used as a cloak to defend men accused of rape if mr bottom is right and indeed these men accused of being innocent the court will decide that a court will determine that why does that mean that while they are accused of rape that cycle of this country what kind of nationalist at these i think the pseudo in those and pseudo nationalists and in fact are the enemies of the wisdom and i hesitate to me this is a hindu muslim issue because millions of people who have risen for this child and do not i'm not naming her because the law of this country does not allow us to identify this child but millions of indians who have risen for this little girl are of all things that the majority of them are hindu and all of what the logic of them is if these men that it is said what are the side that he can't i can't but that doesn't mean anyone marching on street for them preventing the police from actually point or to fight it out to the lawyers behave like a mob and that's the real. all you want.

my hinduism respects goddesses it suspects them and it's a peaceful religion but what we saw in this particular case the entire premise of the case was about a. religious agenda. and moderate in order to break out the most and try who lived in that region and that will in general and the fact is i don't know why is the g.o.p. has not responded is it because they don't want to further polarize the it gets just jump up and push it because they don't want to antagonize a majority hindu community because elections are coming i don't know what their reason is but the fact is what their reaction have been different if it was a hindu god who had been creeped out in a mosque and that's what the countries are asking why are we seeking the religion of this child instead of seeking justice that's in question but she didn't ok you know now whether the women or girls involved are hindu or or muslim what happens to women who report rape in india or the police and the justices from tilted against. unfortunately brian you know despite all the progress that was seeing in india in the last few decades

the other seven rules of you also sound like a crazy mix of hinduism and hedonism and the london based you don't seem to be the only ones who are in chanted by mythology the fabulous of meet up with like minded groups everywhere. has turned his whole life around for the unicorn for example the daily dose of strength exercises. and drugs. the idea is to spread the unicorn message among the people every week. shafton the fabulous of unicorns regularly perform as a dance group in clubs and at festivals and other events like tonight's rave in london's camden district. unicorn friends of course get the standard greeting. long life. not just the hard. i mean i've heard one and i like spending time with my x. ray yet again this is a player who practices me to the bone doing yoga poses i want to be china high enough to spread the love doing and saying. well that all we need now is the right equipment for the unicorn performance. could have failed. and a certain sense of mission won't go amiss either. the five is a vehicle in the head because what better way to get it he will connect it with th

. >> and they decided that they wanted to study hinuism and that was great hinduism and that was great. i had a friend, an hindu woman and i invited her to come to the group so they could ask her questions. it went well and everyone was interested in her story and asked insight tul questions -- insight full questions. and everyone left after the group and wanted to talk to me, elsie. she said i'm worried, i really liked to have the guest, i loved hearing her story but i'm worried about i accept her religion as valid been i'm be traying jesus. >> sue sdwran -- betraying jesus. >> susan have you found that's a common worry. >> it is. it seems a response to the inter faith world is a continuum anything from oh well it really doesn't matter it's the same god and i don't have a problem with it all the way to i don't know what to do with passages from the bible such as jesus say i'm the way of the truth, the life no one comes to the father except through me. it's right there in our own scriptures. i realize from our own bible, we have these passages that would say that, no, we can not accept

superstition of the false promise of another double progress you are a cheerleader for full girl american hinduism with the spirit of boardroom ideology telecom valley and the chamber of commerce practitioners of history optimist and the illusion to it was declared all this the best from all possible worlds of trust to be categorized as a pessimist we think we could do much better definitely this is not the best of all possible worlds but it should not depend on an attitude or temperament or sunny disposition but be treated as a hypothesis it can be measured life, health, sustenance, prosperity safety, knowledge pleasure, happiness over time that is progress with my book i try to make the case with graphs plotting measures of human well-being over time i feel naked telling the story without graphs behind me i will have to do description and pantomime to conveysc my points but the most precious resource is life itself and through most of human history life expectancy was around 30 years but thanks to vaccinations and sanitation antibiotics andon other advances life expectancy in the developed world

the mizo are christians that too distinguishes them from the rest of india which is dominated by hinduism and the neighboring countries where buddhism and islam a more prevalent. one of the people here is the chief minister of ms around once he led a violent rebellion for an independent state now he's a man of peace he and the other mito people accept the central indian government as long as it in turn respects their culture and faith there are more than two hundred different tribes all with their own languages and traditions among the other major tribes here other nagas in the state of nagaland. they to attend church on sundays namely the baptist church the naga people have been baptist since their ancestors came into contact with american english and receive the nuggets take their faith seriously. just like they took their natural religion and customs in the past some of those customs were very bloodthirsty such as head hunting quite literally. the. the old now goes up proud to call themselves the last living head hunters it's been more than sixty years since arcing and his fellow fight

enjoy the multitudes that ramdev does he's managed to hit a contemporary nerve by embodying both hinduism and nationalism in tune with government policy grandad's rise seems to be relentless yes that i give this case or go with it about life is a never ending fight. which a very truth is when one billion people in this country love me. i also have powerful an ability with but that is not a problem now because i also have very powerful friends on speed but better as an ip. and they are on his side half of the government's cabinet ministers are here to honor a new t.v. series being launched in this stadium the series features baba ramdev life story in eighty five episodes all of his followers will surely be tuning in. ramdev is my guru because he's making india great again and he's advancing our country because it's a good manager not an easy and good i hope they followed other saints before i came to ram deaf he's a realistic girl he knows what matters the country is the most important thing i want to be a nationalist and that. the this country will begin singing the glorious song of victo

they decided they would like to study world religion and decided to study hinduism. i had a friend from the interfaith women's group, a hindu woman, i invited to talk with our group so they could hear her story and ask her questions and it went really well and great and everybody was interested in her story and asked insightful questions and everyone left that evening except for one person. elsey came to me and said i'm worried. i love our study, i liked having our guest today. it was fascinating and i loved hearing her story. i'm worried that if i accept her religion as valid then i'm betraying jesus. >> susan, have you found in your conversations with many, many people, that's a common worry? >> it is. it seems that response to our interfaith world can go on a continuum, everything from, well, it doesn't matter, it's all the same god, i don't have a problem with it, all the way to i don't know what to do with passages from the bible like jesus saying i'm the only way, the truth and the light. there there in our own scripture. i realize in our own bible, we have the

it's to the male-dominated religious societies this is true of islam, christianity, buddhism, hinduism both to be the most religious traditions. the women have begun to essentially sees the authority back to themselves so we no longer have to wait for some man to read the scripture for you and tell you what it means to. those women have an opportunity to create actual religious movement from actual churches and mosques and synagogues that preach this uniquely feminine interpretation of the scripture and interpretation that has been woefully i think absent throughout most of religious history. signing area number one where we will be shortly to find a copy please join me in thanking him for a fabuloufor afabulous conv. [applause] you are watching the tv on bookn c-span2, television for serious readers. this is liv has live coverage oe los angeles times festival of books. this is day two and we have been on the air for six, seven, eight hours and we have one more to go. we have set out here on the university of southern california next to the c-span bus and we want to introduce you to th