I'm like, Dude, I'm Hindu.

It has an intact Hindu culture.

The concept of zero sprang from the Hindu culture.

You see it is based on the Hindu ritual of Darshan.

And I'd go at the end of the day to a traditional Hindu house, which was probably the only Hindu house in a predominantly Islamic neighborhood.

Durga, the mother goddess, the fearless one, created by the pantheon of Hindu gods.

Muslim against Christians, and Hindu and Jews cannot deliver on the promise of freedom.

What blew their mind was the first one took place in India, it was the party of a Hindu God.

Babri Masjid one of the most beautiful mosques in India, built by King Babur, I think, in the 16th century was demolished by Hindu activists.

In fact, when India was growing at a Hindu rate of growth about one percent, two percent a year that was when India was least democratic.

I studied yoga for many years with a teacher named Swami Satchidananda and people would say, What are you, a Hindu? He'd say, No, I'm an undo.

Then, the great Arab mathematician al KhwÄ rizmÄŤ introduced the Hindu Arabic numerals 0 through 9, into North America and Europe and created new procedures for computation.

Rama's Journey is more commonly known as the Ramayana. It's a Sanskrit epic that's a very important part of the Hindu canon and it explores human values and Dharma.

And whether it's Jewish or whether it's Muslim or whether it's Hindu, or whether it's Sikh, the same global ethic is at the heart of each of these religions.

But the beauty is that is was installed by a priest, a Hindu priest, who's only done eight years of primary schooling never been to school, never been to college.

He talked about how the mandalas of ancient Hindu religion were kind of projected into the sky as an attempt to regain some sense of order after the chaos of war.

The Pink Chaddi campaign has definitely been successful in my opinion because it has allowed for a space in which a conversation has happened between ordinary people and the Hindu right which is not always possible.

So India now is no longer the nationalism of ethnicity or language or religion, because we have every ethnicity known to mankind, practically, we've every religion know to mankind, with the possible exception of Shintoism, though that has some Hindu elements somewhere.

And it's interesting, if you think about it, how, when we think about the civilizations that we look up to as having been pinnacles of human achievement whether it's China, Greece, the Hindu civilization, or the Mayas, or Egyptians what we know about them is really about their ecstasies, not about their everyday life.

But, the fact is that the last elections, five years ago, gave the world extraordinary phenomenon of an election being won by a woman political leader of Italian origin and Roman Catholic faith, Sonia Gandhi, who then made way for a Sikh, Mohan Singh, to be sworn in as Prime Minister by a Muslim, President Abdul Kalam, in a country 81 percent Hindu.