This chapter is still very current , considering the present situation of inter-religious conflicts in India.
I translated Alberto Moravia's book "Un' idea dell' India" (An idea of India).
Alberto Moravia went in India in 1960 and collected his impressions in this book.
Previous chapters :
First : https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/qcxkxu/1960_italian_book_about_india_an_idea_of_india_un/
Second: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/qn3iza/1960_italian_book_about_india_an_idea_of_india_un/
Third: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/qt2dyr/the_pyres_of_benares_third_chapter_of_1960s/
Fourth:
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/quk9r0/nehru_the_intellectual_from_1960s_italian_book_on/
The wife of Jinnah
At night, the streets of the Indian cities, Bombay and Calcutta in particular, turn into public dormitories. A couple of times, I took a taxi around midnight, and told him to drive me around those two major cities of India. Especially under the long straight roads of the modern neighbourhoods, under the dim buildings of the banks,of the public offices, of the headquarters of the commmercial businesses, the eye glimpses with amazement, rows and rows of immobile and elongated rolls lined up on the sidewalk as far as the eye can see.
India is the country of the incredibile things, the ones you stare at twice, thrice, brushing your eyes and thinking you are hallucinating. These lugubrious perspectives of human bodies laying down on the sidewalks, reminds Henry Moore's famous drawings of the improvised dormitories in the underground stations of London during the Nazi bombing, and also the photos of the executed persons in the extermination camps during the WWII, and they are surely, among the Indian aspects, those which baffle the most.
Who are these homeless? They are, partly, the poors, so to say “permanent”, but for the most part, they are the refugees from West Pakistan in Bombay, and the refugees from East Pakistan in Calcutta. Their number is sheer
... keep reading on reddit ➡Qatar will be tested in 2022 in more ways than one.
My aunt is Catholic, but her husband is a 7th Day Adventist. Her kids just came to the US from Ghana this summer. They've been living with only their dad for like 8 years, so of course they've only been going to the Adventist church, but today my aunt decided that only her youngest kid (11) is now Catholic and will be going to our Catholic church instead of to their dad's church with their other two siblings?
I have a feeling she's trying to make sure at least one of her kids is Catholic and thinks the youngest one will be the easiest one to convert. This whole thing is confusing to me, though, because isn't them being Christian good enough for you? Why do they have to be Catholic in particular? There's this really strange superiority complex/contest between the different Christian faith denominations in the Ghanaian community that I just don't understand.
Something similar happened with my mom and dad. My mom is Catholic and my dad is Baptist. We all went to a Baptist church together, but something happened when I was 10/11; all of a sudden, we were Catholic and I wasn't allowed to go to my old youth group events or anything anymore. That lack of agency over my religious practice catalyzed the eventual erosion of my faith and I'm wondering if something similar will happen to her child, too.
Just gonna start off with yes, the bible does in fact penalize homosexuals, and also as someone who grew up in a Muslim household, I can recount a personal story of mine where my parents told me of a story where Allah toppled a city just because there were gay people in it.
With the trans movement, much older gay/lesbian marriage equality movement, and many others, it really does seem like this generation's gonna have something big in store when it comes with cleansing out religion from our society. With these new ideals conflicting with much older ones, it'd be interesting to see an LGBTQ+ parent try and justify their religion to their child 20 years from now.
concepts like intelligent design of life, relative movement of stars in sky decides the fate of a person, unfalsifiable models such as karma/god.
I don't think things have to be as rigid as they are but the fear of rejection, abandonment, and damnation holds me in place. I feel pulled in different directions and one gives me meaning and some chains while the other gives me freedom and meaninglessness. I just want to be free of pain and to be myself but restrictive expectations from everywhere keep me in painful places and situations.
