Ridicule of Hindu Religion
It was breakfast time at Semiramis Intercontinental hotel in Cairo, this place becomes a UN gathering with hoard of tourists from all over the world. This time, a middle-aged lady from Venezuela was sitting next to me. She could neither speak nor understand English. All she could make out from our conversation that I was from India and kept on asking me if I was Buddhist. She had not heard about Hinduism and it was futile even to discuss about the same. Even in the Gulf states that has dominant presence of India and Indians, awareness of Hindu religion is only through Hindi Movies. Most common people associate Hindu with Hindi. in Arabic, India is referred as Hind. Any discussion on world religion often covers Islam, Christianity, Judaism and sometimes Buddhism. Hindu religion is definitely not on high recall list. When I mention of me being Hindu – it does bring an element of surprise of their utter ignorance about Hinduism. The fault is not theirs, Hindu religion has never been voca