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if everyone is family... - by Mishti Sharma

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thoughts on whether Hindu universalism can play out in the flesh

I share monthly-ish stories about people and places across India and the US — add your email below, and I’d love to write to you. Dear friends, Flanking Mother Mary on Navnath’s Maruti Suzuki dashboard was a small gold-painted Ganesh statue. From his rearview mirror dangled a plate of silver and blue Urdu text. A few frames of the Sacred Mosque of Mecca were taped up for good measure. I stared at the religious insurance and asked him what, exactly, was going on. He shrugged and told me that god was in all things, and in all things god. Like Navnath, I’ve always lived Hinduism as a…

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