Why India’s Narendra Modi may not eat at the White House dinner

Modi, a devout Hindu, is observing the annual nine-day religious fast called Navratri, an auspicious period in the Hindu calendar that also marks the coming of autumn. No, this is not about dietary restrictions. For Modi, this is a strict no-food fast.

Fasting Hindus follow a fruit-only fast, or avoid meat, or get by with only one meal a day during this nine-day period. Some avoid onion, garlic and alcohol, as well. But Modi, who is a devotee of Hindu mother goddess Durga and a strict vegetarian and teetotaller, follows the strictest form of abstinence. Since the 1970s, he has observed water-only fasts.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Modi, a devout Hindu, is observing the annual nine-day religious fast called Navratri, an auspicious period in the Hindu calendar that also marks the coming of autumn. No, this is not about dietary restrictions. For Modi, this is a strict no-food fast.

Fasting Hindus follow a fruit-only fast, or avoid meat, or get by with only one meal a day during this nine-day period. Some avoid onion, garlic and alcohol, as well. But Modi, who is a devotee of Hindu mother goddess Durga and a strict vegetarian and teetotaller, follows the strictest form of abstinence. Since the 1970s, he has observed water-only fasts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/22/why-indias-narendra-modi-may-not-eat-at-the-white-house-dinner/
-> I think Obama should show his respect to his atidhi devo bhav by turning into a devout Hindu for that day

southindian wrote:CD, you look sheepish and apologetic with every post.

You look more childish today than yesterday.

truthbetold wrote:Cd
get a grip man. it is sad to see your disintegration. get real medical help.

Seva Lamberdar wrote:

southindian wrote:CD, you look sheepish and apologetic with every post.

You look more childish today than yesterday.

The thought that he is closer to death by a day today than yesterday is probably making him quite upset.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Modi, a devout Hindu, is observing the annual nine-day religious fast called Navratri, an auspicious period in the Hindu calendar that also marks the coming of autumn. No, this is not about dietary restrictions. For Modi, this is a strict no-food fast.

Fasting Hindus follow a fruit-only fast, or avoid meat, or get by with only one meal a day during this nine-day period. Some avoid onion, garlic and alcohol, as well. But Modi, who is a devotee of Hindu mother goddess Durga and a strict vegetarian and teetotaller, follows the strictest form of abstinence. Since the 1970s, he has observed water-only fasts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/22/why-indias-narendra-modi-may-not-eat-at-the-white-house-dinner/
-> I think Obama should show his respect to his atidhi devo bhav by turning into a devout Hindu for that day

indophile wrote:They will adjust. After all, Didn't Lord Mountbatten adjust his tea drinking style in his meetings with Gandhi?

confuzzled dude wrote:

indophile wrote:They will adjust. After all, Didn't Lord Mountbatten adjust his tea drinking style in his meetings with Gandhi?

Isn't that essentially what I said? Let's see if these unbiased/neutral folks would ask you to get some medical help.

confuzzled dude wrote:
-> I think Obama should show his respect to his atidhi devo bhav by turning into a devout Hindu for that day

Propagandhi711 wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

indophile wrote:They will adjust. After all, Didn't Lord Mountbatten adjust his tea drinking style in his meetings with Gandhi?

Isn't that essentially what I said? Let's see if these unbiased/neutral folks would ask you to get some medical help.

you should get some medical help. maybe a little bit of therapy, a little bit of medical intervention but do get help. in parallel, take some community college courses on written communication so 90% of people that read what you write don't misunderstand your point which you feel is happening a lot.

Kinnera wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:
-> I think Obama should show his respect to his atidhi devo bhav by turning into a devout Hindu for that day

More from your fellow brothers who fret and worry like you do:

http://injesus.com/messages/content/311692

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikular SuChers should object to such chaddization by Biden and warn Modi that they will attack him if he tries such things in fukular India.

indophile wrote:

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikular SuChers should object to such chaddization by Biden and warn Modi that they will attack him if he tries such things in fukular India.

The temple sent one Smartha, one Vaishnavaite, and one Namboodri priest. Equal opportunity for all.

swapna wrote:If I were in the place of POTUS, I would inform all the guests that dinner would not be served; then I would have mango lassi and apple juice served.

truthbetold wrote:

indophile wrote:

The temple sent one Smartha, one Vaishnavaite, and one Namboodri priest. Equal opportunity for all.

since you mentioned the subject, educate us what signs tell you who is who ? what are the differences between those three types of pujari ?

truthbetold wrote:

swapna wrote:If I were in the place of POTUS, I would inform all the guests that dinner would not be served; then I rwould have mango lassi and apple juice served.

swapna / michelle2/flimflam
No matter what you serve, you will have no problem. you will be the only one at that table.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

indophile wrote:They will adjust. After all, Didn't Lord Mountbatten adjust his tea drinking style in his meetings with Gandhi?

Isn't that essentially what I said? Let's see if these unbiased/neutral folks would ask you to get some medical help.

you should get some medical help. maybe a little bit of therapy, a little bit of medical intervention but do get help. in parallel, take some community college courses on written communication so 90% of people that read what you write don't misunderstand your point which you feel is happening a lot.

Actually, We can ask Sandilya to start a separate "Psych Help Thread" as the number of patients here is increasing. Also, Sandilya will feel he is helping fellow SuCHers.

truthbetold wrote:Cd
get a grip man. it is sad to see your disintegration. get real medical help.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

truthbetold wrote:Cd
get a grip man. it is sad to see your disintegration. get real medical help.

On the contrary, it is you who is irrationally hostile to CD and in need of help. I really couldn't see anything in the OP to provoke this response.

swapna wrote:

truthbetold wrote:

swapna wrote:If I were in the place of POTUS, I would inform all the guests that dinner would not be served; then I rwould have mango lassi and apple juice served.

swapna / michelle2/flimflam
No matter what you serve, you will have no problem. you will be the only one at that table.

Sooth (may I address you by your first name?) that's entirely irrelevant to the subject of this thread!

truthbetold wrote:

swapna wrote:

truthbetold wrote:

swapna wrote:If I were in the place of POTUS, I would inform all the guesrts that dinner would not be served; then I rwould have mango lassi and apple juice served.

swapna / michelle2/flimflam
No matter what you serve, you will have no problem. you will be the only one at that table.

Sooth (may I address you by your first name?) that's entirely irrelevant to the subject of this thread!

Swapna/michelle2/Flimflam

 you are not relevant to anyone. being your miserable self must hurt.

swapna wrote:

truthbetold wrote:

swapna wrote:

truthbetold wrote:

swapna wrote:If I were in the place of POTUS, I would inform all the guesrts that dinner would not be served; then I rwould have mango lassi and apple juice served.

swapna / michelle2/flimflam
No matter what you serve, you will have no problem. you will be the only one at that table.

Sooth (may I address you by your first name?) that's entirely irrelevant to the subject of this thread!

Swapna/michelle2/Flimflam

 you are not relevant to anyone. being your miserable self must hurt.

Sooth, you infernal bore, your last post is not relevant to this thread either. challenge: post something - anything - that's relevant to this thread.

am
7:46 PM EDT
Goddesses are worshiped in India but the aspirations of ordinary Indian women have no value. This man did not have the courage to refuse his father's wish that he marry. He had to courage to dump his wife for sake of his aspirations. Her aspirations of course would have been to have a family, and obviously those are less noble than his aspirations. But does that mean that her aspirations had no value and so she deserved this existence? According to the Indian constitution child marriages are valid unless the people who are wedded do not take legal measures to annul it. In the last forty years after he left her this man could not once find out about the procedure and free his wife from this terrible bond. He could have shown his greatness by finding someone willing to marry her. Fortunately for him, she belongs to a generation of women who had so little self-worth themselves that they did not shout out to the world about the injustice done to them. And so we can talk of his "greatness" and her "sacrifice". Try to put a sister of yours in her place and see whether it would be acceptable if a man dumped her for national service. Or maybe we man could put ourselves in her place and wonder how we would react if our wives dumped us for "national service" and refused to divorce us. Of what use are prayers to the Mother Goddess when you have disrespected the wife whom you married in accordance with the same religious rituals?

shadi katyal
3:42 PM EDT
One cannot deny Modi rights to observe his religious duties but how can one be so religious that while Rama fought for his wife and destroyed sri lanka and yet we have a PM who walked away decades ago from his
wife and denied for years being married. So where is the duty of a husband ?  
Let him observe his religious rights to eat nothing but why was this dinner evern organized. Why not tell the host that he will not take an food with all of them.Who failed to create this misunderstanding

truthbetold wrote:

swapna wrote:

truthbetold wrote:

swapna wrote:

truthbetold wrote:
swapna / michelle2/flimflam
No matter what you serve, you will have no problem. you will be the only one at that table.

Sooth (may I address you by your first name?) that's entirely irrelevant to the subject of this thread!

Swapna/michelle2/Flimflam

 you are not relevant to anyone. being your miserable self must hurt.

Sooth, you infernal bore, your last post is not relevant to this thread either. challenge: post something - anything - that's relevant to this thread.

Swapna/michelle2/flimflam

your self inflicted misery. Can't help it.

truthbetold wrote:Sorry old fart .  your miserable lonely life keeps you awake through night. get some regular sleep. You may feel little less bitter about life after that.

michelle2 wrote:

truthbetold wrote:Sorry old fart .  your miserable lonely life keeps you awake through night. get some regular sleep. You may feel little less bitter about life after that.

sooth, you doddering old fool, i'm still waiting for you to write a comprehensible, english sentence that's relevant to this thread.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:A couple of comments (from converts?) on that column that may not sit well with our resident Modiji bhaktajan; All this rage and character assassination over one dude questioning originality of one of the Hindu customs is amusing; imagine the state of mind of these folks if a couple of more began to criticize a few practices and stoop to their level of heckling (of other religious practices) & as long as they did. My dear Hindu Dharma practitioners, you are amazingly tolerant, just like those salafists. When are you guys starting your own ISIS style outfit to teach these impure Hindus/converts a lesson.

Forget all that....

Your favorite enemy and punching bag (next only to Hindus) is bombing your best friends of Islamic State.

Start whining and blaming US (and hindus) for the next 10 weeks for all the terror acts that your friends are like to indulge in.

truthbetold wrote:Cd
Taking a piece of irrelevent information and saying it proves something is similar to Isis does not enhance your credibility. In fact it makes one question your reasoning abilities.
Oil and water are liquids. That does not make them identical. Nor do they behave similarly in most environments.
There is a vast difference between correlation and causation. You try to use irrelevant and insignificant similarity in characteristics to claim identical bad behaviour. That is a common tactic used by apologists of all kinds.

confuzzled dude wrote:

truthbetold wrote:Cd
Taking a piece of irrelevent information and saying it proves something is similar to Isis does not enhance your credibility. In fact it makes one question your reasoning abilities.
Oil and water are liquids. That does not make them identical. Nor do they behave similarly in most environments.
There is a vast difference between correlation and causation. You try to use irrelevant and insignificant similarity in characteristics to claim identical bad behaviour. That is a common tactic used by apologists of all kinds.

Hahaha! downplaying them doesn't enhance your credibility either. Look how you've promptly turned into an apologist when roles reversed.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:A couple of comments (from converts?) on that column that may not sit well with our resident Modiji bhaktajan; All this rage and character assassination over one dude questioning originality of one of the Hindu customs is amusing; imagine the state of mind of these folks if a couple of more began to criticize a few practices and stoop to their level of heckling (of other religious practices) & as long as they did. My dear Hindu Dharma practitioners, you are amazingly tolerant, just like those salafists. When are you guys starting your own ISIS style outfit to teach these impure Hindus/converts a lesson.

Forget all that....

Your favorite enemy and punching bag (next only to Hindus) is bombing your best friends of Islamic State.

Start whining and blaming US (and hindus) for the next 10 weeks for all the terror acts that your friends are like to indulge in.

In other words you banares langoti wearing, bamboo stick wielding saffron brigade is only good at killing innocent bystanders not much different than what ISIS is doing

truthbetold wrote:
This is not word play or children's argument.  When you are young you can get away with calling each other stupid.  

Now you are old enough. So your reasoning can be questioned. 

truthbetold wrote:
let me explain a little more.  Both oil and water are liquids. That does not make everything about them same.  For example their flammable characteristics are vastly different.  

There are fanatics in Hindus.  Hindu fanatics pose a danger.  But the context and size and timing of their danger is different from Islamic terrorists and specifically from ISIS. 

For India,  RSS , Islamic fundamentalism,  secular pandering, left wing extremism, unbounded greed of rich, and corruption are all inherent genetic problems.  ISI terrorism and lashkar terrorists are all external threats or substances.  When any of these external poinsons get inside the body, the natural reaction of the body is to try to get rid of it.  For a period of time that threat becomes the primary focus of all cells overshadowing long term genetic problems. Once the external pain is removed, body/India can get back to its internal bickering.

Comparing Hindu fundamentalism or its threat to ISIS and trying to confuse ISIS with hindu fanaticism problem serves no purpose other than confuse the immediate and grave threat of ISIS terrorism (to the people of middle east).

Back to India. Indian people must fight all of these threats. But they will prioritize them and attack them.  

Only fight Islamic fundamentalism is RSS and BJP line.

Fight RSS and ignore Islamic terrorism and not even acknowledge Islamic fundamentalism is pseudo secular opportunistic congress line. 

truthbetold wrote:
Rest of the Indians, which is the majority of Indians,  would say prioritize sensibly and eliminate or minimize the problems. At present, in relatively calmer waters,  Indians are focused on economy. But ISI could change that situation whenever it wants and make pirates (i.e. islamic terrorism) the problem.

confuzzled dude wrote:

truthbetold wrote:
This is not word play or children's argument.  When you are young you can get away with calling each other stupid.  

Now you are old enough. So your reasoning can be questioned. 

I see.. it is child like argument when your hypocrisy is exposed

truthbetold wrote:
let me explain a little more.  Both oil and water are liquids. That does not make everything about them same.  For example their flammable characteristics are vastly different.  

There are fanatics in Hindus.  Hindu fanatics pose a danger.  But the context and size and timing of their danger is different from Islamic terrorists and specifically from ISIS. 

For India,  RSS , Islamic fundamentalism,  secular pandering, left wing extremism, unbounded greed of rich, and corruption are all inherent genetic problems.  ISI terrorism and lashkar terrorists are all external threats or substances.  When any of these external poinsons get inside the body, the natural reaction of the body is to try to get rid of it.  For a period of time that threat becomes the primary focus of all cells overshadowing long term genetic problems. Once the external pain is removed, body/India can get back to its internal bickering.

Comparing Hindu fundamentalism or its threat to ISIS and trying to confuse ISIS with hindu fanaticism problem serves no purpose other than confuse the immediate and grave threat of ISIS terrorism (to the people of middle east).

Back to India. Indian people must fight all of these threats. But they will prioritize them and attack them.  

Only fight Islamic fundamentalism is RSS and BJP line.

Fight RSS and ignore Islamic terrorism and not even acknowledge Islamic fundamentalism is pseudo secular opportunistic congress line. 

Your argument & reasoning is along the lines of familiar theme of yours  i.e. the CBN is much better than Jagan because his corruption is supposedly in 10s of crores as opposed to  100s or 1000s of crores.

truthbetold wrote:
Rest of the Indians, which is the majority of Indians,  would say prioritize sensibly and eliminate or minimize the problems. At present, in relatively calmer waters,  Indians are focused on economy. But ISI could change that situation whenever it wants and make pirates (i.e. islamic terrorism) the problem.

Right now the only section of Indians that are thumping their chests and made it a priority to flame communal issues on a daily basis are RSS folks & BJP ministers and political leaders, if you have any doubts read a bit of new

truthbetold wrote:Cd

What hypocrisy of mine did you expose?  I know I am as selfish and hypocritical as the next guy. But I would like to know the specifics you are talking about. so far you just say things with no evidence or claim your opinions as evidence or make mountains of molehills.  Go ahead and start your explanation.

You keep bowling wides and call that an argument.  You have no logical argument.  Hindu fanatic is not the same as islamic terrorist.

truthbetold wrote:  Hindu fanatic is not the same as islamic terrorist.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

truthbetold wrote:  Hindu fanatic is not the same as islamic terrorist.

Yeah. He's just as cretinous and filled with as much primitive hatred but simply lacks the physical courage to inflict violence like the latter and therefore limits himself to online vitriol and fantasized violence.

truthbetold wrote:Cd
get a grip man. it is sad to see your disintegration. get real medical help.

Asked about what that meant for his dinner with President Obama, Mr. Akbaruddin said: “The Indian government has conveyed the PM’s dietary preferences to the American hosts.”
Mr. Modi is expected to restrict himself to lime water during his interactions with President Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden, who will host a dinner and a lunch for him respectively.